Booknotes : Life Stories : Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America
by Lamb, Brian [editor]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0812930819
- ISBN 13
- 9780812930818
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Times Books / Random House, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's price-clipped dust-jacket. 471 pages. Complete List of C-Span Booknotes (1989-1998), Index. Edited, with an introduction, by Brian Lamb. Illustrated with 32 pages of color photographs. First edition, first printing, utilizing the Random House practice of number line ending in "2" but words first edition printed directly underneath. Over 100 selected interviews from Booknotes with famous authors and biographers. No previous ownership marks. Bust for price-clipped dust-jacket a like new copy, clean, square and unmarked. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. .
Synopsis
Brian Lamb is the founding CEO of C-SPAN. He has been the host of C-SPAN's Booknotes since its debut in 1989, an experiment that quickly became an oasis of literary programming on television. The author is directing all of his royalties from the sale of this book to the not-for-profit C-SPAN Educational foundation.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018752
- Title
- Booknotes : Life Stories : Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America
- Author
- Lamb, Brian [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812930819
- ISBN 13
- 9780812930818
- Publisher
- Times Books / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Biographies, Books about Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books About Books;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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