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STATE OF THE ART
by Kael, Pauline
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in a near fine jacket.
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: EP Dutton, 1985. Very good in a near fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition, association copy, of this collection of Pauline Kael's NEW YORKER film reviews from 1983 to 1985. Inscribed to a fellow NEW YORKER writer, the dance critic Arlene Croce, who also reviewed films for Film Culture and was a recognized authority on the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. An attractive association copy. 9'' x 6''. Publisher's purple boards in original price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 404 pages. Inscribed by Kael on front free endpaper, "For Arlene Croce,/ with admiration/ and love-/ Pauline Kael." Touches of shelf-wear to jacket. Trivial sunning to boards at edges. Two torn pages torn at lower corners; one with tape repair. Interior otherwise bright and clean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42141
- Title
- STATE OF THE ART
- Author
- Kael, Pauline
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a near fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- EP Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 20th century,1980s,US American,Association Copy,Film,Woman Author
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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