While Rome Burns
by Woollcott, Alexander
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- very good: spine sunned, text clean, binding tight and square, mild shelf wear, ex libris bookplate on front pastedown, flat sig/no DJ
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Viking Press, 1934. hardcover. hardcover. very good: spine sunned, text clean, binding tight and square, mild shelf wear, ex libris bookplate on front pastedown, flat signed by author on FFEP/no DJ. 8vo 328pp. 10th printing, August 1934. Collection of Woollcott's writings for The New Yorker--portraits, anecdotes, reminiscences, includes accounts of his travels to Japan and Russia.
. #00983.
. #00983.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 902
- Title
- While Rome Burns
- Author
- Woollcott, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: spine sunned, text clean, binding tight and square, mild shelf wear, ex libris bookplate on front pastedown, flat sig
- Jacket Condition
- no DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- new yorker, nonfiction
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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