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What a Time It Was!: Leonard Lyons and the Golden Age of New York Nightlife
by Jeffrey Lyons
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0789212358
- ISBN 13
- 9780789212351
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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NZ$15.32NZ$13.79
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About This Item
First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Abbeville Press, 2015. The fascinating story of the life of New York Post columnist, Leonard Lyons, by his son, film critic Jeffrey Lyons. From 1934 to 1974 Leonard Lyons was a fixture of New York Society, where he frequently visited Sardi's, The Stork Club, Copacabana and held court with the leading actors, directors, writers, politicians, and anyone else who was anyone in NYC. 480 pages with Index, photos through the book. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Cover boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or creased, no edge wear. Edges of the text block are clean. There is a former owner's address label on the title page, about 2" X 1", partly torn at the bottom edge of the label. No further wear besides that label, no writing on the text pages. Not a remainder copy, not a library discard. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22-08543
- Title
- What a Time It Was!: Leonard Lyons and the Golden Age of New York Nightlife
- Author
- Jeffrey Lyons
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0789212358
- ISBN 13
- 9780789212351
- Publisher
- Abbeville Press
- Date Published
- 2015
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film;
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Hopkins Books
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