Discount used books
SEARCH 50 MILLION USED & NEW BOOKS:



Note: Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available

About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made

by Yagoda, Ben



  • Bookseller: Echo of the Past US (US)
  • Seller Inventory #: 001993
  • Edition: First Printing
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0684816059
  • ISBN 13: 9780684816050
  • Publisher: Scribner
  • Place: NY
  • Date published: 2000
  • Pages: 478
  • Size: 6.5 x 10 x 1.75 inches
  • Weight: 1.7 pounds

Description

NY: Scribner, 2000. remainder mark else clean tight copy, price intact on dj, 478 pp w/index, notes, bibliography, B&W photos, illustrations, "The 'New Yorker' is arguably America's most revered cultural institution. The best work of virtually every prose giant of the century - from J.D. Salinger and John Cheever to Rachel Carson and E.B. White - first appeared in its pages." Story of how a tiny humor magazine, founded in the Jazz Age, grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportions. CL001. ISBN: 0684816059. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo. Business History New Yorker Magazine Literature Publishing.





* All You Can Read Special *

Order any 5 books and save $2
Use promo code 7TOLKIEN at checkout

Order any 10 books and save $5
Use promo code 5AUSTEN at checkout

Save on shipping!
Learn how Biblio.com can save you money on shipping!

HACKER SAFE certified sites prevent over 99.9% of hacker crime.

Book summary

This 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.


Similar books from this bookseller

From this bookseller's LITERATURE catalog.

Come to Me : Short Stories
by Bloom, Amy
NY: HarperCollins (Aaron Asher Books), 1993. fine unread copy, dj has faint c.rease to inside flaps else fine, in protective myl...


Far Away, Long Ago
by Tuttle, Margaret Wheaton
Martha's Vineyard, MA: Tashmoo Press, 1983. previous owner inscription else fine, dj in mylar wrapper, 237 pp, "I am a vani...


Stern Men
by Gilbert, Elizabeth
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000. dj in mylar wrapper, 289 pp, "On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the loc...


The Visitor
by Brennan, Maeve
Washington, DC: Counterpoint Press, 2000. remainder mark bottom fore edge else as new, dj in mylar wrapper, 87 pp, "Recentl...