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Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
by [KORDA FAMILY] Korda, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394419545
- ISBN 13
- 9780394419541
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House Inc, 1979. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book Club Edition. Hard cover in very good condition with maroon boards, red panel on spine with gold gilt rule and lettering of title & author; smaller rectangle on front board with author's initials; right corner of front board show light spotting. Publisher name in gold gilt on bottom of spine. Dark beige end papers. Interior text block clean & tight with mellow age toning to the papers. Contains two sections each eight leaves/16 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket good with shelf & edge wear; rubbing at corners; small chips. * The story of three brothers, centered around the one brother, Alex, who stood at the center of their story. From the jacket flap, "". . . It was Alex who led the brothers from a remote Hungarian peasant village into the early silent-film world of Budapest, Vienna, Berlin and Paris, and to the great studios of Hollywood and London as talking pictures swept the globe. . . . ""
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- Seller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- M001099
- Title
- Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
- Author
- [KORDA FAMILY] Korda, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394419545
- ISBN 13
- 9780394419541
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Biography, Sir Alexander Korda - 1893-1956, Motion picture producers and directors - Great Britain - biography, Motion picture producers and directors - United states - Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Film & Entertainers;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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