NY: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. INSCRIBED by Frank Case in year of publication on the half-title page. (Rear cloth cover shelf soiled. Upper 2"-inches of spine on DJ. Chipped. Far smaller chips at edges of dust jacket. General wear & shelf soiling) Memoirs of the manager of the famed Algonquin hotel in New York City. Brochure from the present day hotel laid-in. (GC); 390 pages; Signed by Author .

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Bookseller: Waverley Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 311236
Title: TALES OF A WAYWARD INN.
Author: Case, Frank
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY.
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1938
Keywords: The Algonquin Roundtable/frank Case/algonquin Hotel/biographies/new York , City/210

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