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Weber and Fields: Their Tribulations, Triumphs, and Their Associates. Signed copy.
by [Performing Arts]. ISMAN, Felix
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1924. First edition, this copy signed in ink at the first blank page by Weber and Fields, with the bookplate of author and Warner Music Group executive Stan Cornyn at the front pastedown. 8vo, xii, [2], 15 - 345 pages, plus 20 unnumbered leaves of plates, pp. 319 - 345 providing an appendix of printed music. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. Lacking the dust jacket.
Moderate wear at the spine extremities & corners (including a couple of nicks), spine gilt a bit dull, brief gift inscription, light toning & foxing, a good or better copy.
"Messrs. Weber and Fields are but the mediums to tell the story of two young American boys born in the ghetto, raised in the slums, with all the disadvantages of foreign parentage of that particular period, who by their lives and their living became shining examples of true American manhood ..." ~Excerpted from the Introduction.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 992
- Title
- Weber and Fields: Their Tribulations, Triumphs, and Their Associates. Signed copy.
- Author
- [Performing Arts]. ISMAN, Felix
- Format/Binding
- Cloth hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boni & Liveright, 1924.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Performing Arts, Biography, Joe Weber, Lew Fields, Vaudeville, Comedy, Comedians, Broadway, Theatre
- Bookseller catalogs
- Performing Arts; Biography, Autobiography; Autograph; Signed;
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