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The Young Lions (Modern Library #112.3)
by SHAW, Irwin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1958-59]. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library edition, 1958 of Irwin Shaw's novel, which is set against the backdrop of WWII and was later made into a movie starring Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and Dean Martin. Though copyright page indicates a 1958 first edition, the dust jacket title count indicates a 1959 issuance. --- In Toledano spine 8 / light grey cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i / verso advertises 385 titles in ML catalog. Possibly published c.1958-1959. ML #112.3. --- A Good+ copy, with rubberstamped number "70" to textblock top and bottom edges, inked gift inscription to front fly, sticker removal evidence to front free endpaper and a little looseness to front cover. Price-clipped dust jacket with some chipping to spine ends and some rubbing to extremities, but remaining intact and bright; protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; (6), 689 pages .
Synopsis
The Young Lions a 1958 film based upon the 1949 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, and starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84323
- Title
- The Young Lions (Modern Library #112.3)
- Author
- SHAW, Irwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1958-59]
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- Gilt
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- Good+
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- Jacket
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- Copyright page
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Verso
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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