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Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address
by Birmingham, Stephen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394410793
- ISBN 13
- 9780394410791
- Seller
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
Item Price
$190.00$161.50
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About This Item
New York, Random House, 1979, hardcover, xii-241 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Very Good+ in Near Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the front endpaper. Straight, tight, and clean with no markings, light foxing to text block edges, sharp corners. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, very slight edge bumps, in new Brodart sleeve. A social history of the famous 1884 apartment house, star of Rosemary's Baby, and home to New Yorkers such as Boris Karloff, Lauren Bacall, Leonard Bernstein, John Lennon and Yoko Ono as well as a few ghosts and a host of eccentrics. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-&-white plates. Index appended. ISBN 9780394410791
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11016
- Title
- Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address
- Author
- Birmingham, Stephen
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394410793
- ISBN 13
- 9780394410791
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Biography & Autobiography; History; Mid-Atlantic; Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA); New York; New York (State); New York, N.Y.; Northeast U.S.; Rich & Famous; Social History; State & Local; United States
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