Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table
by Gaines, James R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear. Ink mark on bottom edge.
- ISBN 10
- 0151975213
- ISBN 13
- 9780151975211
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First edition. Stated. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear. Ink mark on bottom edge.. xi, 251, [1] p. Index. Photo Credits. It is the era of publicity, the Jazz Age, the time of postwar freedom, of the making of a sophisticated, modern American culture. At the heart of this world is the Algonquin Round Table-the storied collection of glittering writers, actors, and socialites who embody a distant era. The story of the legendary collection of intellectuals during the Jazz Age. Dorothy Parker, Franklin Adams, Henry Miller, Gerald Brooks, Raoul Fleishmann, George Kaufman, Paul Bonner, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Alexander Woolcott, Alice Miller, Harpo Marx, George Backer, Irving Berlin, Harold Ross, Beatrice Kaufman, Herbert Swope, Joyce Barbour & Crosbie Gaige.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58746
- Title
- Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table
- Author
- Gaines, James R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear. Ink mark on bottom edge.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. Stated
- ISBN 10
- 0151975213
- ISBN 13
- 9780151975211
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Dorothy Parker, Algonquin Round Table, Henry Miller, Raoul Fleischmann, George S. Kaufman, Rovert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Alexander Woolcott, Harpo Marx, Irving Berlin, Herbert Swope, Crosby Gaige, Franklin Adams, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Ring La
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