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Witness to a Century: Encounters With the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBSs
by Seldes, George
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0345331818
- ISBN 13
- 9780345331816
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A: Ballantine Books/Random House, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Ballantine Books/Random House, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Four photographic sections with approx 80 illustrations. Clean, unmarked solid volume in black full cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles ,square with sharp corners. Lower edges of boards lightly rubbed. Inscription by former owner on endpaper. Internals very clean and otherwise completely free from any markings. Unclipped black glossy jacket with gold lettering is clean, rubbed, light edgewear, half inch closed tear to center spine head. George Seldes, journalist, has so many stories of events and happenings of the 20th century as he spent his life alongside the movers and shakers who made written history--Trotsky, Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Isadora Duncan, William Jennings Bryan, Emma Goldman, Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, Tito, Mussolini, He knew them and interviewed them, corresponded with them, argued with them, and shared meals with them. In this book you will meet all of them as Mr. Seldes leads you on a fascinating journey through the turbulent decades that changed the world. 490 pages with index. 9.75 x 6.5 x 2 inches. Ballantine Books/Random House, New York, 1987.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018970
- Title
- Witness to a Century: Encounters With the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBSs
- Author
- Seldes, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345331818
- ISBN 13
- 9780345331816
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- HISTORY, MODERN-20TH CENTURY; BIOGRAPHY; FRANCO, FRANCISCO; FRANCE; GERMANY; HITLER, ADOLF; HEMINGWAY, ERNEST; THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE; INDEPENDENT; MCCORMICK, COLONEL ROBERT RUTHERFORD; LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID; MUSSOLINI, BENITO; NEW YORK TIMES; SELDES, GILBERT;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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