The Gentle Art of Columning: a Treatice on Comic Journalism
by Edson, C.L
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Brentano's, 1920 New York: Brentano's, 1920 177 pp. Subtitled "A treatise on Comic Journalism, " with introductory essays by Don Marquis, Christopher Morley, Franklin P. Adams and George Horace Lorimer. A how-to for topical humorists. Includes a chapter on the early use of emoticons, with various figures - mostly animals, designed from type.Text is clean, tight and unmarked, yellowed. The paper boards are fair to poor, with much of the spine missing and the front cover spotted and yellowed. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001055
- Title
- The Gentle Art of Columning: a Treatice on Comic Journalism
- Author
- Edson, C.L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Brentano's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- WRITING FOR NEWSPAPERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- The Twenties and Thirties;
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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