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Bay Window Bohemia: An Account of the Brilliant Artistic World of Gaslit San Francisco
by LEWIS, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Good+/Good+. Paul Galdone (dust jacket). 8vo. Pp. 248. Illustrated with a section of b&w photo reproductions on coated paper. Typography credited to Edward Gorey. Bound in ochre cloth, titles in yellow on the spine, yellow topstain: boards mildly damp-warped and -stained, leaf edges a trifle foxed. In the three color Galdone illustrated dust jacket unclipped: spine ends chipped, short closed tears. The lives of young artists in "Paris of the West" between 1890 and the 1906 Great Fire, including Isadora Duncan, David Warfield, David Belasco, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Frank Norris, Gertrude Atherton and Robert Aitken.
Jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7952
- Title
- Bay Window Bohemia: An Account of the Brilliant Artistic World of Gaslit San Francisco
- Author
- LEWIS, Oscar
- Illustrator
- Paul Galdone (dust jacket)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City NY
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- George Sterling
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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