Icons: Intimate Portraits
by Worrell, Denise
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0871133067
- ISBN 13
- 9780871133069
- Seller
-
Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Both Stated in words: First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover in very good condition with light gray boards, darker gray spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Contains a black & white photo of each of the 'icons' portrayed in the book at the beginning of their individual chapters. Dust jacket in very good condition; light shelf & edge wear; rubbing to paper at folds; rubbed scar to top right corner of front panel - appears to be from removal of a price sticker; not price clipped. * A look at the Cultural Icons of our time: Madonna, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, Paul Newman, Nastassia Kinski, Bob Dylan, David Lean, George Lucas, Bette Midler, Oliver Stone, Michael Jackson. As the jacket flap states, ""the comings and goings of these cultural icons are the stuff of tabloid reportage,.... [this] extraordinary book is of quite a different order. here are the faces behind the well-tended facades.""
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Details
- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001081
- Title
- Icons: Intimate Portraits
- Author
- Worrell, Denise
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0871133067
- ISBN 13
- 9780871133069
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Entertainers - United States - Interviews, Motion picture producers and directors - United States - Interviews, Motion picture actors and actresses - United States - Interviews
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film & Entertainers;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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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....
- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Gilt
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- Text Block
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- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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