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Our Own Baedeker
by KINKEAD, Eugene and Russell Maloney
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Fair. Carl Rose. Squarish 8vo. Pp. xiii, 281. Two-color maps and illustrations by Carl Rose. Introduction by Geoffrey Hellman. Half red cloth over gray paper covered boards, titles and illustrations stamped in gilt on the spine, illustration in blind on the cover, dark red topstain. Board edges minimally rubbed and faded, leaves very lightly age toned. In the color illustrated dust jacket, price clipped: edges chipped, closed tears to the front panel with old tape repairs verso. Collected entertaining New Yorker "Talk of the Town" pieces originally published in the magazine without bylines, with the addition of 240 humorous illustrations and ten pictorial maps. A lively, humorous take on the US military's worldwide forays during "the Big One." The illustrations by Carl Rose are excellent. Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6728
- Title
- Our Own Baedeker
- Author
- KINKEAD, Eugene and Russell Maloney
- Illustrator
- Carl Rose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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