Show Biz: From Vaude to Video.
by Green, Abel and Joe Laurie, Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt, 1951.. First edition. 8vo. 613 pp. The definitive book on show business, from the turn of the century to today's TV, jam-packed with facts, figures, names, and anecdotes on Vaudeville, songs, movies, radio, television, opera and burlesque. Near fine in silver cloth in very good lightly soiled and rubbed dust jacket with some chipping to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54-1704
- Title
- Show Biz: From Vaude to Video.
- Author
- Green, Abel and Joe Laurie, Jr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Henry Holt, 1951.
- Bookseller catalogs
- theater;
Terms of Sale
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Payment by credit cards or other means. 20% charge for returns,unless item is misdescribed.
About the Seller
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Biblio member since 2006
San Francisco, California
About Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...