Screwball: The Life of Carole Lombard
by Larry Swindell
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0688002870
- ISBN 13
- 9780688002879
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Morrow, 1975. `. Very Good/very good. Hardcover. Very good or abit better in very good, price clipped dust jacket with some sunning to the spine strip and minor waer at the tips. Hardcover. Pictorial endpapers. 324 pp. with filmography, index. Illustrated with photos. Scarce and highly sought after biography of iconic and ultimately tragic Hollywood star Carole Lombard. Both her career and her extraordinary personal life are vividly re-created. Born Jean Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, she was a tomboy as a young girl. She and most of her family moved to Southern California where her enchanting beauty led to mostly small movie roles, She hit her stride (eventually becoming the highest paid female movie star) in the mid-1930s with the the advent of the "screwball" comedies in which she became the supreme comedienne.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E24259x
- Title
- Screwball: The Life of Carole Lombard
- Author
- Larry Swindell
- Format/Binding
- `
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0688002870
- ISBN 13
- 9780688002879
- Publisher
- Morrow
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- movies, movie stars, actresses, actors, comedy, screwball, clark gable, airplane crashes,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Movies;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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