To Hell in a Handbasket: The Education of a Humorist by Smith, H. Allen - 1962

Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Doubleday, 1962. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Used:Good. Good. No Dust Jacket. X-Library With Pocket Removed, Stamps And Markings, Spine Label, Library Rebound In Green With White Print. Condition Is Otherwise Very Good . [I-Xiv, 1] 2-341 [342-6] P., Perfectbound. Illus., Ports. 20.7 Cm. Includes: Illustrati

Doubleday , 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. First Edition Stated. VG+ NO marks or writings, pages bright and clean, binding sound. Light wear to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket with light chipping to upper spine and small taped tear to bottom spine, light wear to corners. S2

doubleday company, 1962 solid hardcover edition with jacket signed by author

Doubleday & Company Inc., 1962. Very Good. Smith, H. Allen. To Hell in a Handbasket: The Education of a Humorist. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1962. 1st edition. 341pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. Stated First Edition. Fine/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Very clean turquoise boards with black cloth spine, blue title box and decoration on spine, gold lettering. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 341 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket designed by SIdney Butchkes is not price clipped, unchipped, with a few very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. One of the great American humorists takes us through his youth and young manhood, beginning in Little Egypt, Illinois and rocketing through newspaper offices in Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New York..

Garden City:: Doubleday & Company,. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Near fine in a very good (two short closed edge tears and attendant creases on front panel) dust jacket. .

Doubleday and Co. New York 1962. First edition 341pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) excellent in good d/w (rubbing, edgewear, sl chipped corners)

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in teal pictorial dust jacket; [16],341pp. Light wear to jacket and board extremities, rear jacket panel a bit dust-soiled, ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed to notable personal relations genius Earl Newsom on front free endpaper: "For Earl Newsom - who took me in - with thanks! H. Allen Smith." American journalist-cum-humorist H. Allen Smith's memoirs of childhood and early adulthood, concluding with his brief tenure writing copy for Newsom's as-yet tiny PR firm, where he toiled at convincing the American public to drink tea on behalf of the Tea Bureau, and choose wall paper over paint on behalf of the Wallpaper Institute. Newsom himself is described here as "an intelligent and pleasant boss" (p. 288).