This Is Sylvia
by Sandy Wilson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dutton, 1955. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. 125 pp.With 54 illustrations by the author. Very good, some light edge stains that show on the outer margins of a few text pages. In very good, price clipped dust jacket. Playwright and humorist Sandy Wilson (best remembered for the music and lyrics for the hit play "The Boy Friend") here offers a "biography" of Sylvia, his cat. Sylvia is a theatrical cat and her story is her theatrical memoir, telling of her struggles to achieve success on the stage, love affairs, marriage into the cat aristocracy, her glamorous experiences on the Riviera and in Hollywood.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E27300
- Title
- This Is Sylvia
- Author
- Sandy Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- cats, feline, animals, humor, biography, theatre, theater,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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