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The Street Where I Live
by Alan Jay Lerner
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 039307532X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393075328
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
NZ$16.58NZ$11.60
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About This Item
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978 W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 1978. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O bookplate on the front pastedown and her signature on th FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; light foxing to textblock fore edge and bottom. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($10.95); light head tail, and edge bumping; light suntoning to top edge. Red paper over boards with tan cloth overlay on the spine with bright red letters on the spine. Tinted textblock top. 333 pp 8vo. This book is a little bit an autobiography but more than that it is a personal biography of three great shows: My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot. This book talks of the actors and actresses and their ups and in front of and off the stage and the grand collaboration of Fritz Loewe's music and the casting of Moss Hart. In the midst of all this Lerner shows how a show is conceived, financed, written, produced, stated, saved, and finally given to the public for an opinion. As he goes through the three productions the readers sees that this is a book about the world Broadway shows and those who love putting them on stage. 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 #
- 013920
- Title
- The Street Where I Live
- Author
- Alan Jay Lerner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039307532X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393075328
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Broadway Plays, Alan Jay Lerner, Gigi, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Broadway play productions, Directing a Broadway play, casting a Broadway musical, setting the music to the stage performance, acting, directing, producing,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Autobiography;
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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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
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