Damon Runyon: A Life [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Breslin, Jimmy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0899199844
- ISBN 13
- 9780899199849
- Seller
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About This Item
Ticknor & Fields, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very good in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated to a fellow author 'For Vincent Cosgrove and Chris, who should have come first' by the author on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket is fine except for some toning to the interior upper edge. Book would be as new except for some foxing to the edges of the pageblock. A biography of humorist Damon Runyon (of whose writing the adjective 'Runyonesque' was coined) by the late Pulitzer Prize- and George Polk Award-winning journalist and author of 'The Good Rat: A True Story' and 'The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guti�rrez'. Uncommon signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- MostlySignedBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5563
- Title
- Damon Runyon: A Life [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Breslin, Jimmy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0899199844
- ISBN 13
- 9780899199849
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 410
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