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The Secret Life of Walter Winchell
by Stuart, Lyle
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boar's Head Books, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition hardcover book in unclipped dust jacket. Clean black cloth boards with red lettering on spine. No bumping or fading, slight surface wear at base of spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Offset (brown shadow) to pages 158-159 from newsprint. 253 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), clean, with illustration of bloodshot eye peering through a keyhole; light chipping to spine ends, small pieces of clear reinforcement tape to corners; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. For forty years, Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 February 20, 1972) was the most famous and detested syndicated newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator in America..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31914
- Title
- The Secret Life of Walter Winchell
- Author
- Stuart, Lyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Boar's Head Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, WALTER WINCHELL, FIRST EDITION, LYLE STUART, GOSSIP COLUMNISTS, RADIO NEWS COMMENTATORS
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Stanley, New York
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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