My Sister Eileen [Promotional Pamphlet Laid in]

Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1938

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth with printed paper paste-ons to upper cover and spine, in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); xiii,[1],226pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, spine panel rather sunned, endpapers unevenly toned, else a Very Good, straight and sound copy. With laid in promotional pamphlet "For Booksellers" reprinting the chapter "Guinea Pig." The popular collection of comic essays first published in The New Yorker recounting the zany adventures of sisters Ruth and Eileen McKenney growing up in Ohio. The collection inspired a play, a radio play, a musical, two motion pictures, and a television series. Uncommon in the trade.

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Title
My Sister Eileen [Promotional Pamphlet Laid in]
Author
Ruth McKenney
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York
Publication year
1938
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Edition
1st Edition
Seller catalogs
Biography / Memoir, Essays, Film, Ohio, Women

Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

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