This Is Sylvia: Her Lives and Loves
by Sandy Wilson
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dutton, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition stated. Hardcover in "tweed" paper covered boards stamped in maroon. 125 pp. Illustrated by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket with a mere hint of wear at the tips. Sandy Wilosn, who wrote the book, lyrics, and music for the Broadway hit "The Boy Friend", here offers a humorous "biography" (with 54 illustrations) of Sylvia---his cat. "Sylvia is a theatrical cat and her book is a theatrical memoir to end all theatrical memoirs." She tells of her success on the stage in musical comedy, her love affairs, marriage in the aristocracy, glamorous experiences in Holly wood and the Riviera.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E29540
- Title
- This Is Sylvia: Her Lives and Loves
- Author
- Sandy Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- cats, feline, satire, humor, theater, theatre, comedy, broadway,animals
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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