NAME DROPPING. TALES FROM MY BARBARY COAST SALOON (SIGNED)
by CONRAD, Barnaby
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- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
New York: Harper Collins West, 1994. First Edition, Stated. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Fine. (xii) 212 pp. SIGNED in ink by Author Barnaby Conrad on the title page. Illustrated dust jacket. Foreword by Herb Caen. Illustrated, including from drawings by Author Conrad and various guests at his establishment. Cloth-backed boards. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Author Conrad was an artist, bullfighter, restaurateur and author of 27 fiction and non-fiction books. He was once secretary to Sinclair Lewis. El Matador, Conrad's elegant saloon on Broadway in San Franisco's North Beach, was a very popular meeting place in the 1950's for locals and visiting celebrities. From Herb Caen's foreword: "In San Francisco, for a gaudy decade when the world was young, everybody who was anybody came to the Matador and among the anybodies was a bonanza of Somebodies." An indispensable book for veteran San Franciscans everywhere. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via media mail to any United States address.
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- Bookseller
- Hardy Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2163
- Title
- NAME DROPPING. TALES FROM MY BARBARY COAST SALOON (SIGNED)
- Author
- CONRAD, Barnaby
- Format/Binding
- Cloth-backed Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Stated
- Publisher
- Harper Collins West
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; San Francisco;
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Hardy Books is a rare and out-of-print book and ephemera seller located in Nevada City, California, in the heart of the California Northern Mines Gold Country. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and follow the IOBA Code of Ethics.
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