Gumbo Ya-Ya
by Lyle Saxon, Robert Tallant, Edward Dreyer
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Portland , Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Published 1945 by Hougton Mifflin, Boston/The Riverside Press, Cambridge- "Material gathered by Workers of the Works Progress Administration, Louisiana Writers Project, and Sponsored by by The Louisiana State Library Commission". Front cover includes statement: "Here are stories that make New Orleans a legend anong cities- The Zulu Parade, the Macabre Night of the Axeman's Jazz, the Needle Men, and the Irish Channel". dRed cloth covered boards with title in black on front cover and spine. Jacket is still bright but has chips along top bottom edges, and spine. Original price of 5.00 on inside flap- statement at bottom: "A Wartime Book This Complete Edition is Produced In Full Compliance With the Government's Regulations for Preserving Paper and Other Essential Materials". Interior pages are clean with foxing expected from wartime paper. A very nice rare copy.
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- Bookseller
- Anthony Greene (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2024-007
- Title
- Gumbo Ya-Ya
- Author
- Lyle Saxon, Robert Tallant, Edward Dreyer
- Illustrator
- Caroline Durifux
- Format/Binding
- Tight
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1945
- Pages
- 181
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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