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While Rome Burns
by WOOLLCOTT, Alexander
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1934. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 328pp. A very good copy in the publisher's red cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Spine gilt gently faded, bottom corners tapped, and the spine cocked, else a clean, sound copy. SIGNED by Woollcott on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand. A typed letter, SIGNED by Woollcott is neatly tipped onto the front paste-down. The letter is addressed to one "Mr. Worcester," and is dated before the publication of the book (September 1, 1933). The letter thanks Mr. Worcester "for the A. E. F. story, which has all the fine hostility to the welfare services which was characteristic of the doughboy." Woollcott goes on to advise Worcester that the Viking Press will be making "a re-print of the best Shouts and Murmurs pieces" in January (this refers to the very book offered here). We were unable to identify Worcester, but presume that the story Woollcott refers to in the letter is "Hands Across the Sea," a recollection of Woollcott's service in the Medical Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Woollcott was one of a half dozen newspapermen serving in the war who were recruited to edit and publish "Stars and Stripes." Among the others were Harold Ross, who would found "The New Yorker" with Woollcott and others just a few years after the war. A pleasing copy of this Woollcott collection.
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- Bookseller
- Cleveland Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11474
- Title
- While Rome Burns
- Author
- WOOLLCOTT, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth printing
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- New Yorker, Harold Ross, Algonquin Roundtable, E. B. White, James Thurber, Dorothy Parker
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Cleveland Book Company
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Rocky River, Ohio
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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