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ANGEL TOWN (JACKET SUBTITLE: A NOVEL OF YOUTH AND LOS ANGELES TODAY)
by Grayson, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/good
- Seller
-
San Pedro, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1946. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Very good/good. [iv], 248p. Top edge of cover sunned, price clipped jacket rubbed on back with clips and tears to edges. Prolific screenwriter Grayson creates "a completely honest treatment of a group of fictional youngsters in Los Angeles during the early forties...and succeeds admirably in creating the atmosphere of high school and college classrooms and of innumerable extra-curricular activities, as well as sharply recording the conversations and outlook of a variegated group." (The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 29, 1946) [Baird & Greenwood; 949] Jacket illustration by J. Gurney. (8"x5-5/8")
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- Bookseller
- Champ & Mabel Collectibles
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- G2257
- Title
- ANGEL TOWN (JACKET SUBTITLE: A NOVEL OF YOUTH AND LOS ANGELES TODAY)
- Author
- Grayson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Los Angeles California Fiction Teenagers Youth
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION;
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About the Seller
Champ & Mabel Collectibles
Biblio member since 2007
San Pedro, California
About Champ & Mabel Collectibles
Champ & Mabel Collectibles has been selling secondhand books online since 1998.
We have a general collection of 20th and 21st century fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on American history (focusing on California).
We have a general collection of 20th and 21st century fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on American history (focusing on California).
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