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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN:
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GOOD. Tight, light age tanning of pages, age soil and stain at bottom of spine to exterior, square. Ex-library with expected markings including pocket. Tan cloth with worn gilt trim. No jacket. A comic novel lampooning Hollywood during the silent movie era. A reclusive New York playwright tries to go on vacation but ends up kidnapped by a starlet who wants him to write her the perfect script. 297 pages.
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Good in Good jacket. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Fourth printing, 1928. "Adventures that befell Ambrose Deacon among the Moving Picture Stars at Hollywood". Blue hardcover with dustjacket. The book has modest edge rubbing, good hinges, sound text block, light speckling to outer edge of text block and endpapers, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustajcket has a slightly faded spine, edgewear, some foxing to the light colored background of the dustjacket, fairly little paper loss. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
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Very Good in Good jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. 2nd printing. Square and unmarked in full cloth binding. 297pp. Jacket is fair to good, chipped and worn, with tape or old-style mylar shadows along edges. Now in a new clear cover. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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Collectible; Very Good in Good jacket. The 1928 1st trade edition. Solid and tight and VG (with mild soiling at the spine) in a bright, price-intact, G+ dustjacket, with chipping at the panel edges and most notably, at the spine ends (2" loss at the foot), and light soiling and scuffing to the rear panel. 12mo, 297 pgs. A respectable "starter" copy of a jacketed (Ronald McRae-designed) 1st trade edition.
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Fine. Book First edition. Signed by the author. Number 174 of 220 copies. Orange cloth backed blue boards, lettered in gilt. Spine faded, light rubbing to the extremities. Glue stain to front endpaper. Overal a fine copy.
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Very Good (Plus). No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition, which was issued in three differnt ways (Trade; Limited to 75 copies; and this version LIMITED to 220 copies, of which 210 were for sale). Blue cloth binding, titled in gilt on front cover; spine highly decorated in blue and gilt; three compartments for the titling. Clean text; 297 pages; includes Van Vechten's "Works" and the Knopf Print Notice. SIGNED and NUMBERED on Limitation Page. Light rub to margins; splash of fade on front cover. Lacking the slipcase; in an archival plastic protector.
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Good. First edition. Cream cloth with gilt border on front. Spine darkened and front and back boards lightly soiled, a good or better copy. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For John Beckett with yellow roses from Carl Van Vechten. August 11-1928. C.V.V." We are uncertain of the recipient, but there is a portrait of Beckett, with the date of 3/16/34, listed among Van Vechten's subjects in the Carl Van Vechten Photograph Collection 1932-1956.
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Book. Octavo, 297 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is tan with gold print on blue banners. Boards quarter bound with tan cloth to spine and blue paper to boards. Wear to spine caps and corners, cocked spine, damp stain on rear panel. Text block has tear to top corner of page 3, intermittent spine breaks. Signed in ink by the author on the limited edition page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L. 1384017. FP New Rockville Stock.