Twentieth Century Parody American and British
by Lowrey, Burling (ed.)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1960 New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1960 304 pp with an introduction by Nathanial Benchley. Title page has an erratum slip attached correcting the authorship of a Mel Brooks piece. Parodies of fiction and non-fiction, dramas, and literary criticism by Max beerbohm, Robert Benchley, Cyril Connolly, Peter De Vries, John Updike, Woolcott Gibbs, S.J. Perelman, Edmond Wilson, Frank Sullivan and James Thurber among many others. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Cream-colored cloth boards with stamped silver spine and pink and orange jesters is G, clean except for slight darkening along edges. DJ is intact bit soiled, bumped and chipped. In mylar jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Stated First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000955
- Title
- Twentieth Century Parody American and British
- Author
- Lowrey, Burling (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- COMEDY - TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Story Collections;
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Catron Grant Books
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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