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PENS AND NEEDLES: Literary Caricatures by David Levine.
by Levine, David
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Gambit Incorporated, 1969., 1969.. Very good. WITH AN ORIGINAL SKETCH INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY DAVID LEVINE - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 7 inches wide], black boards backed with gray cloth & titled in gilt in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly chipped with a small area of rubbing & foxing to its rear panel. The jacket spine is slightly darkened. viii, [1] leaf & 150 pages. Illustrated with profuse black-and-white caricatures. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition.
With an original sketch of a man tying on an apron titled "Bruno Levine". The drawing is inscribed "To the Lessers" and signed "David Levine".
The contents of the book are introduced and selected by John Updike.
Laid in are a flier for a joint exhibition of David Levine's drawings and Laura Ziegler's sculpture; and an offprint of a New York Times article about Levine's Coney Island drawings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34892
- Title
- PENS AND NEEDLES: Literary Caricatures by David Levine.
- Author
- Levine, David
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston, MA: Gambit Incorporated, 1969.
- Date Published
- 1969.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATED; SATIRICAL DRAWINGS; AUTHORS; WRITERS; AMERICAN CARICATURIST; DAVID LEVINE; PENS AND NEEDLES: DAVID LEVINE'S LITERARY CARICATURES; ORIGINAL SKETCH INSCRIBED AND SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; JOHN UPDIKE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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