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SPARE RIBS - Women in the Humor Biz
by Collier, Denise; Beckett, Kathleen
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0312750110
- ISBN 13
- 9780312750114
- Seller
-
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. Book. Illus. by Irving Freeman; Nancy Rica Schiff;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiii) 240 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on black boards; lettered in gilt on the spine. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with a bit of chipping at the head of the spine; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Way It Was: From Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers; Zora Rasmussen: Stand-up Comedienne; Anne Beatts: Writer for Saturday Night Live; Suzanne Rand: Of the Improvisational Team Monteith and Rand; Stockard Channing: Film and Television Actress; Eugenie Ross-Leming: Producer and Writer for Mary Hartman Mary Hartman; Judy Pioli Ervin: Producer of Laverne and Shirley; Marjorie Gross: Stand-up Comedienne; Marilyn Sokol: Film Actress; Deanne Stillman: Writer and Coeditor of Titters - The First Collection of Humor by Women; Gilda Radner: Actress on Saturday Night Live; Lynn Roth: Head of Comedy Development for 20th Century Fox; Rosie Shuster: Writer for Saturday Night Live; Penny Marshall: Actress on Laverne and Shirley; Swoosie Kurtz: Broadway and Television Actress; Gail Parent: Writer of Books Film and Television; Andrea Martin: Member of Second City Improvisational Troupe; and Lee Marrs: Cartoonist..
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 229037
- Title
- SPARE RIBS - Women in the Humor Biz
- Author
- Collier, Denise; Beckett, Kathleen
- Illustrator
- Irving Freeman; Nancy Rica Schiff;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312750110
- ISBN 13
- 9780312750114
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- comedians; tv; television tie in; comedy; stand up; humor; humour;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Entertainment;
Terms of Sale
W. Fraser Sandercombe
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
We are primarily an Internet-only bookstore, selling on-line for over twenty-three years; our shop can, however, be visited by appointment through an e-mail. We specialize in First Editions and collectible books (and usually have around 500 signed editions in stock at any given moment) ranging through most of the genres: Fantasy; Horror; Science Fiction; Mysteries; and a good selection of Literature; Historical Adventure; History; Outdoors; True Crime; and Assorted Non-fiction. We stock roughly 9000 books and add to our catalogues regularly.
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