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At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
by Cerf, Bennett
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394478770
- ISBN 13
- 9780394478777
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0394478770 . Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on front cover, printed endpapers. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Bennett Alfred Cerf (1898 – 1971) was an American writer, publisher and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his weekly television appearances for over 17 years on the panel game show What's My Line?. Head and heel of spine lighly sunned, former owner's name written on first blank page, else fine. Unclipped dust jacket shows only mild shelf-wear. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. ix, 306 pp .
Synopsis
Bennett Cerf was born in 1898 in Manhattan and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in journalism. In 1925 he acquired the Modern Library with Donald Klopfer, providing the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. A major figure of American publishing for more than four decades, Bennett Cerf died in 1971. Christopher Cerf is an author, editor, and Emmy- and Grammy-winning songwriter and television producer. A longtime contributor to Sesame Street , and cofounder and creative producer of the PBS literacy-education series Between the Lines , Christopher Cerf is a former contributing editor of National Lampoon and a former senior editor at Random House.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26360
- Title
- At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
- Author
- Cerf, Bennett
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394478770
- ISBN 13
- 9780394478777
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- 0394478770, Memoirs;, Biographies
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