Author: DOUBLEDAY, F[RANK]. N[ELSON],
Title: The Memoirs of a Publisher
Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of Frank N. Doubleday's autobiography. Known as "Effendi" (based on his initials FND), Mr. Doubleday worked at Charles Scribner's Sons for eighteen years before launching the first of many ventures which carried the Doubleday name: "Doubleday & McClure Co." in 1897. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling and elaborate scrollwork in gilt; mustard yellow endpapers. Volume wrapped in simple white jacket which lacks printing on spine, back panel and on flaps. --- A well-preserved copy: tightly-bound, unmarked and sturdy. Jacket with small tears and chips as well as mild tanning but remains mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; ix, (7), 304 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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