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Now
by Bacall, Lauren (1924-2014)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394574125
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574127
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
Item Price
$15.00$13.50
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.5"x9.5". 214 pp. 1st printing. Black boards. Black cloth spine w/gilt letters. 40 photographs. Type is digitized version of Electra, a Linotype face designed by W. A. Dwiggins. Designed by Iris Weinstein. Composed by Dix, Syracuse, NY. Printed and bound by Quebecor Printing Martinsburg, WV. Front-of-jacket phtot by Marc Hom. Back-of-jacket photo Deauville Film Festival 1989. Other photo credits listed on C/R page. Jacket design by Archie Ferguson. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Ghost sticker on Ffep. Three blue spots along back of DJ. "CANDID AND HONEST...A philosophical looking-backward and forward--an inquiry into the question 'Is that all there is?' "
--Liz Smith
New York Newsday
"FRANK AND AMUSING...[AND] BRIMMING WITH CONFESSIONS...Part career memoir and part meditation on what it's like to be a single woman of lingering glamour, enduring vitality and advancing age...The book has the Bacall voice behind it. Her writing echoes her deep, sardonic, no-nonsense timbre and jazzy tempo....Bacall is at her best when talking about friends she has loved and watched die. Bernstein, she says, was more than a little seductive; Huston, more than a little remote; Olivier, a survivor to the end."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"HER PROSE IS SPARE AND HONEST....A kaleidoscope of thoughts and ideas on loneliness, a...
Source: Publisher.
--Liz Smith
New York Newsday
"FRANK AND AMUSING...[AND] BRIMMING WITH CONFESSIONS...Part career memoir and part meditation on what it's like to be a single woman of lingering glamour, enduring vitality and advancing age...The book has the Bacall voice behind it. Her writing echoes her deep, sardonic, no-nonsense timbre and jazzy tempo....Bacall is at her best when talking about friends she has loved and watched die. Bernstein, she says, was more than a little seductive; Huston, more than a little remote; Olivier, a survivor to the end."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"HER PROSE IS SPARE AND HONEST....A kaleidoscope of thoughts and ideas on loneliness, a...
Source: Publisher.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13252
- Title
- Now
- Author
- Bacall, Lauren (1924-2014)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394574125
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574127
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1994
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Argillite, Kentucky
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