LIFE IN A PUTTY KNIFE FACTORY
by Smith, H. Allen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo, tan cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket with cartoon of H. Allen Smith, xviii + [ii] + 296 pages + [2] Note on Type. Humorist Fred Allen described journalist-and-humorist H. Allen Smith as "the screwball's 'Boswell.'" A companion volume to Allen's delightful Low Man on the Totem Pole.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1786
- Title
- LIFE IN A PUTTY KNIFE FACTORY
- Author
- Smith, H. Allen
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- New York, journalist, travels, maturing, humor, jokes, eccentrics
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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