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Broadway
by Atkinson, Brooks
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. Revised Edition. First Printing. ix, [1], 564 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Red cloth with white spine title. Dust jacket. Influential theater critic Books Atkinson (1894-1984) worked for the New York times from 1922 to 1960. "here is a lively, anecdotal history of the theatrical capital of America, from turn-of-the-century operettas and melodramas to the excapist extravaganzas and protest theater of the sixties and the revivals of the seventies." -- dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: endpapers slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: edges rubbed; creasing and chipping along upper edge; closed 1-cm. tear from upper edge of back section; clean and bright.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008887
- Title
- Broadway
- Author
- Atkinson, Brooks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Performing Arts;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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