1001 AFTERNOONS IN NEW YORK
by Hecht, Ben
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A follow-up to the author's A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (1922), featuring 86 stories set in "the addle-headed city of New York - the teeming and invincible citadel of ball games, slum dramas, night life, soap-box revolutions, and all the other jackstraw items of democracy." Illustrated by George Grosz. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Period previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf. Some general shelfwear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75450
- Title
- 1001 AFTERNOONS IN NEW YORK
- Author
- Hecht, Ben
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Literature, Americana, New York, Journalism, Illustrated Books, Manhattan
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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Covina, California
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...