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Will Rogers; A Biography
by Ben Yagoda
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394585127
- ISBN 13
- 9780394585123
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993 Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1993. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light soiling to head and tail; slight shelfwear to board edges. DJ: Very Good; light bumping and wear to head, tail, and tips; suntoning to top and bottom edges of DJ. Brown boards with white cloth overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on spine and author initials on front board. 409 pp 8vo. Will Rogers was a true American icon. From the early 1920s until his death in a plane crash in 1935, he was the most popular man in the US. His newspaper column was read daily by 40 million people. He was our biggest radio entertainer, lecturer, movie star, and homespun sage. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016043
- Title
- Will Rogers; A Biography
- Author
- Ben Yagoda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394585127
- ISBN 13
- 9780394585123
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Will Rogers, Ziegfeld Follies, vaudeville, newspaper columnist, radio personality, movie actor, Wild West Show, Flo Ziegfeld, Wiley Post, presidential candidate, Wiley Post, politics, Oklahoma, Claremore Oklahoma, Will Rogers Memorial and Library
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Spine
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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