Damon Runyon: A Life
by Jimmy Breslin
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0899199844
- ISBN 13
- 9780899199849
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. 410 pp. In this perfect union between author and subject, the colorful and celebrated writer/journalist Jimmy Breslin recreates the life and times of the extraordinary Damon Runyon, the journalist who personified and memorialized the razzle-dazzle of Broadway and the Roaring Twenties.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E28651
- Title
- Damon Runyon: A Life
- Author
- Jimmy Breslin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0899199844
- ISBN 13
- 9780899199849
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- journalists, humor, humorists, roaring 20s, broadway, guys and dolls, alibi ike, reporters, jazz age
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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