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Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
by Patrick Dennis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
Item Price
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About This Item
Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade. By Patrick Dennis. Vanguard Press 1959 First Edition, Stated Third Printing Thus. "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Used. VG/VG Unclipped $3.50 ORIGINAL DJ is now protected in a mylar wrap. Former owner names on front free endpaper. One of the funniest books ever written, this story was also a made into a play, a film, and a musical with the incomparable Rosalind Russell and Lucille Ball. Rare/quite scarce in a nice dj. Please see our photos. 280 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8.
Extended Description and Notes
Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade. By Patrick Dennis. Vanguard Press 1959 First Edition, Stated Third Printing Thus. "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Basis for the Smash Broadway Play and film Starring Rosalind Russell. Hilarious.
Synopsis
Auntie Mame is a 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles the madcap adventures of a boy, Patrick, growing up as the ward of his deceased father's eccentric sister, Mame Dennis. The book is a work of fiction inspired by the author's eccentric aunt, Marion Tanner, whose life and outlook in many ways mirrored those of Mame. In real life, Dennis was raised by his parents.
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- Bookseller
- Mary Riversong Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 301DennisMame3B
- Title
- Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
- Author
- Patrick Dennis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated Third Printing Thus
- Publisher
- Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 280
- Size
- 5 5/8 X 8 3/8
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Roaring Twenties, Aristocracy, Beakman Place, Mame Dennis, Orphan, Love, Christmas, Angela Lansbury
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books Into Film; Performing Arts; American History; Drama; Movies; 20th Century Literature; Humor; Film History;
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Mary Riversong Books
Biblio member since 2017
Salem, Oregon
About Mary Riversong Books
Online sales. Used Vintage First Editions. MANY RARE. 19th and 20th Century Literature. Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Action & Adventure
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