Laurette
by Courtney, Marguerite
- Used
- first
- Condition
- good: wear and scuffing to boards, spine sunned, hinge cracking at title page, toning, text clean, binding intact/no DJ
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Rinehart and Company, 1955. first edition. hardcover. good: wear and scuffing to boards, spine sunned, hinge cracking at title page, toning, text clean, binding intact/no DJ. 8vo 433pp. biography of actress Laurette Taylor. from Introduction: "Whether or not Laurette Taylor was the greatest actress of her day is not within the present writer's competency to determine. That she was perhaps its most shining personality, he can testify from long acquaintanceship. Her rise from the tawdriest purlieus of the theater to its summit had in it a touch of the miraculous." #00958.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 877
- Title
- Laurette
- Author
- Courtney, Marguerite
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - good: wear and scuffing to boards, spine sunned, hinge cracking at title page, toning, text clean, binding intact
- Jacket Condition
- no DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Rinehart and Company
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- show business, movies, actress, nonfiction, first edition, biography
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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