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The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times
by Frankel, Max
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1999. Signed First Edition. Fine in full dark green leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A small quarto measuring 9 1/8" tall by 5 7/8" deep containing 546 pages of text. Signed by the author on the specially tipped-in second free end page and identified as copy number 966 of only 1,000 copies printed and sold. One of The Easton Press' signed, first edition, leather bound books. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
Synopsis
Max Frankel was born in 1930 in Gera, Germany. Raised in New York City, Frankel received his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University. He has written for The New York Times for fifty years and received the Pulitzer Prize for international coverage in 1973. He served as executive editor of The Times from 1986 to 1994. This is his first book. He lives in New York City.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB22444
- Title
- The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times
- Author
- Frankel, Max
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Signed First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Conn.
- Date Published
- 1999
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Quarto
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