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Short Takes by Runyon, Damon, with a Memoir of the Author by Don Iddon - 1948

by Runyon, Damon, with a Memoir of the Author by Don Iddon

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Short Takes by Runyon, Damon, with a Memoir of the Author by Don Iddon - 1948

Short Takes

by Runyon, Damon, with a Memoir of the Author by Don Iddon

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London: Constable, 1948 Hardback, 130mm x 190mm tall (5" x 7.5" approx.). 278pp + a b/w photo frontispiece plate. Almost fine, in the original green cloth cloth-covered boards/silver spine title, and with the price-clipped and lightly toned, but otherwise very good dust-wrapper.. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Almost Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Bentley, Nicolas. Sm 8vo.
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores GB (GB)
  • Illustrator Bentley, Nicolas
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Almost Fine
  • Jacket Condition Very Good
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Constable
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1948
  • Keywords Noisbn Runyonesque Fiction Tales Stories New York America Usa Broadway Humor Humour Don Iddon
  • Size Sm 8vo

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Short Takes: Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite Newspaperman

by Damon Runyon

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New York: Somerset Books, Inc., 1946. Hardcover. USED Good/Poor Jacket. Pages clean, but oxidizing. Jacket has fallen apart and is missing pieces but is being held together with a brodart.
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Short Takes

Short Takes

by Damon Runyon

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Constable and Co., 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. First Edition. 278 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
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Short Takes

Short Takes

by Damon Runyon

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Somerset Books, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. 1946 Reprint. 435 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with white lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Corners are creased in places. Boards have been moderately rub worn, with noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed and spine ends are crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
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Short Takes:  Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite  Newspaperman

Short Takes: Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite Newspaperman

by Runyon, Damon

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Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine toned, boards rubbed, bookstore label on front free endpaper.
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NY: Whittlesey House. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine toned, boards rubbed, bookstore label . on front free endpaper.. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth binding. A collection of Damon Runyon's newspaper columns giving real flavor of the 1940s. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 435 pages .
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SHORT TAKES: Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite Newspaperman

by Runyon, Damon

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Whittlesey House, 1946-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.
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SHORT TAKES

by Runyon, Damon

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GB: Constable, 1948. With a Memoir of the author by Don Idden. Spine of DW is spotted.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG DW.
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Short Takes.

by RUNYON, Damon

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London:: Constable,, [1948].. First UK edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. A few spots of foxing to endsheets; else a sharp copy in an unchipped jacket with some foxing, particularly to the front panel.. 8vo,.
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Short Takes

Short Takes

by Runyon, Damon

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Whittlesey House, 1946. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. contents are clean, clear and presentable. boards are rubbed, chipped on spine. light marks. small sticker. binding may have been repaired. reprint.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Short Takes

by Runyon, Damon

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Constable, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Mainly a reading copy - soundly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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SHORT TAKES

by Runyon, Damon

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NEW YORK: WHITTLESEY HOUSE. 1931. CORNERS BUMPED, SHELFWORN, DJ TORN SLIGHTLY AROUND EDGES, O/W VG IN DJ .
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