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About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Madeby Yagoda, Ben
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DescriptionNew York: Scribner , 2000. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, with complete number sequence. Copyright 2000 by Ben Yagoda. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 99-058140. This lovely hard cover book, 478 pages long, is in very good condition, with light shelf wear, light bumping to the spine ends and cover corners, light page edge soiling. Small black remainder dot on the bottom page edges. The pages are tight, bright and clean. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with light shelf wear, light bumping to the cover edges, light surface scuffing. "About Town, written with all the authority and elegance such a subject demands, tells an endlessly fascinating story of how a tiny humor magazine, founded in the Jazz Age on champagne vapors, grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportion." Illustrated with several pages of black and white photos.. ISBN: 0684816059. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder. Ben Yagoda, About Town, New Yorker, Magazines, Non Fiction, History. |
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Book summaryThis cultural history of one of the most venerated magazines in America focuses on the years between The New Yorker's founding and the departure of editor William Shawn, demonstrating both the way the magazine cultivated a culture of readers and the ways the magazine's mission fluctuated. | |||
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