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Talking to Myself
by Pearl Mae Bailey (1918-1990) inscribed
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good to fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151879907
- ISBN 13
- 9780151879908
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
xiv+233 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine with blind-stamped facsimile signature of Bailey on cover in original pictorial jacket. Inscription: "To Caral Love is where and how we live. Pearl" First edition.
This is a free-swing book that follows literally its title through it will be an unusual reader who doesn't decide soon that Miss Bailey is talking to them too. Crammed with Anecdotes and with highly independent opinions about contemporary life.
Condition: A touch of sunned to head edges, head corners bumped. Jacket with small closed edge tears else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS002544
- Title
- Talking to Myself
- Author
- Pearl Mae Bailey (1918-1990) inscribed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good to fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0151879907
- ISBN 13
- 9780151879908
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- xiv+233 pages
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- JAZZ, MUSIC, Autobography
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Facsimile
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