Bandbox
by Mallon, Thomas
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375421165
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421167
- Seller
-
Monroe, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2004 clean and tight and square, inside is clean and unmarked; DJ has no tears or creases or chips, couple of marks on the cover and the cover is rubbed, covers are yellowed
Synopsis
"Cuddles Houlihan got clipped by the vodka bottle as it exited the pneumatic tube. . . ." With that bottle we enter Bandbox, a hugely successful magazine of the 1920s, run by bombastic Jehoshaphat "Joe" Harris. Harris's most ambitious protégé ("the bastard son he never had") has just defected to run the competition, plunging Bandbox into a newsstand death struggle. The magazine's fight for survival will soon involve a sabotaged fiction contest, the vice squad, a subscriber's kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the reader races from skyscraper to speakeasy. Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap romp of a book that brilliantly portrays Manhattan in the gaudiest American decade of them all.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Book Nook Monroe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 307176
- Title
- Bandbox
- Author
- Mallon, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375421165
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421167
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 305
- Size
- 8vo - over 7 3/4 - 9 3/4" tall
- Keywords
- FICTION, NOVEL, TWENTIES, MAGAZINE BUSINESS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - General;
Terms of Sale
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.