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Used-VG. No Jacket. This book is well-loved and in good condition. Minor wear from use. Help support Orca Books Cooperative--Olympia's only Co-op Bookstore! Slight fraying to corner edges. Minor wear. Text is clean. Little to no crease in spine. Light staining on cover. Clean text block.
Add this copy of Baghdad: 1951 to cart. $33.00, good condition, Sold by Bookmine rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fair Oaks, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1950 by Doubleday and Co.
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Good. Signed by author on front end paper. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Rubbing/chipping to dust wrapper edges, mild tanning. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
Add this copy of Baghdad, 1951 to cart. $42.75, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1950 by Doubleday.
Add this copy of Baghdad: 1951 to cart. $137.50, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1950 by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Edition:
First Edition [stated], presumed first printing
Publisher:
Doubleday & Company, Inc
Published:
1950
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17998229143
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Good. The format is approximately 5.125 inches by 7.625 inches. [4], 120, [4] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Ink mark inside rear cover. Signed by the author on the fep. No dust jacket present. Herbert Eugene Caen (April 3, 1916-February 1, 1997) was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes-"A continuous love letter to San Francisco"-appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years (excepting a relatively brief defection to The San Francisco Examiner) and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. "The secret of Caen's success", wrote the editor of a rival publication, was: "his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day's happenings." A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco. In 1938, Caen proposed a daily column on the city itself; "It's News to Me" first appeared July 5. Excepting Caen's four years in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and a 1950-58 stint at The San Francisco Examiner, his column appeared every day except Saturday until 1990, when it dropped to five times per week-"more than 16, 000 columns of 1, 000 words each...an astounding and unduplicated feat, ...the longest-running newspaper column in the country. "A new portrait of an old favorite--San Francisco--by the author of BAGHDAD-BY-THE-BAY". In the inimitable Caen style. People of San Francisco, told by Herb Caen from his columns in the newspapers. The drama of victories and defeats of everyday people. Caen had considerable influence on popular culture, particularly its language. He coined the term beatnik in 1958 and popularized hippie during San Francisco's 1967 Summer of Love. He popularized obscure-often playful-terms such as Frisbeetarianism, and ribbed nearby Berkeley as Berserkeley for its often-radical politics. On Sundays, current items were set aside in favor of "Mr. San Francisco's" reflections on his unconditional love for his adopted city, musing on (for example): The crowded garages and the empty old buildings above them, the half-filled nightclubs and the overfilled apartment houses, the saloons and the skies and the families huddled in the basements, the Third Street panhandlers begging for handouts in front of pawn shops filled with treasured trinkets, the great bridges and the rattle-trap street cars, the traffic that keeps moving although it has no place to go, thousands of newcomers glorying in the sights and sounds of a city they suddenly decided to love instead of leave." In 1993, he told an interviewer that he declined to retire because "my name wouldn't be in the paper and I wouldn't know if I was dead or alive, " adding that his obituary would be his last column: "It will trail off at the end, where I fall face down on the old Royal with my nose on the 'I' key." Herb Caen said "If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, "It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco."