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I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf: "Dobie Gillis Loves Again ... and Again and Again."
by SHULMAN, Max, with Introduction by Art Linkletter
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, distributed by Random House, (1959). First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), xiii & 204 pages. Publisher's decorated dark gray paper over boards backed in white & gilt lettered green cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Trace of wear at spine extremities, slight foxing affecting early & late leaves, otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket, lightly soiled, with brief edge wear including a short closed tear.
"Following are a bunch of true experiences that I wrote at various times of my life. All the experiences are about girls, because that is what my life is about - girls. I'm not oversexed, mind you. But I'm not undersexed either. Let's just say I'm sexed ..." ~"Dobie Gillis," excerpted from the Foreword
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- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1718
- Title
- I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf
- Author
- SHULMAN, Max, with Introduction by Art Linkletter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dobie Gillis, College, St. Paul, Minnesota, Humor, Girls, Dating, Sex, Short Stories, Television, TV tie in
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women; Fiction; Humor; Film, Movies; Sexuality;
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- Leaves
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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