Description: Metropolitan Life Humorous essays by Fran Lebowitz Henry Robbins/EP Dutton, 1978 First edition, first printing Hardcover, 177 pages Fran Lebowitz’ first book. Essays on urban life written with the humor and cutting wit we love from Fran. Book is Very Good- in Good dust jacket. Book has minor wear to exterior, with contents clean and unmarked. Minor discoloration to front and rear boards, and light rubbing to spine ends. Slight irregularity to text block as shown. Wear to unclipped dust jacket includes minor rubbing to front panel, shallow edgewear to spine ends, sunning to spine, and creasing to rear flap. Overall solid copy of this uncommon collectible edition! Table of Contents: My Day: An Introduction of Sorts MANNERS Vocational guidance for the truly ambitious -- Modern sports -- Breeding will tell : a family treatment -- Disco hints : the new etiquette -- Better read than dead : a revised opinion -- Children : pro or con? -- A manual : training for landlords -- Success without college -- Specialty banking : a numbered account -- The right of eminent domain versus the rightful dominion of the eminent -- The family affair : a moral tale -- Guide and seek : I'm O.K., you're not -- A world view -- Notes on "trick" -- SCIENCE The nail bank : not just another clip joint -- Digital clocks and pocket calculators : spoilers of youth -- Weak speech handsets : aid for the dull -- The primary cause of heterosexuality among males in urban areas : yet another crackpot theory -- Why I love sleep -- Good weather and its propensity to frequent the better neighborhood -- Plants : The roots of all evil -- Mars : living in a small way -- City limiting : the new geography -- Food for thought and vice versa -- ARTS Not in the : mood jewelry -- Clothes with pictures and/or writing on them : yes -- another complaint -- Soho : or not at home with Mr. Art -- Color : drawing the line -- The sound of music : enough already -- A brush with death -- LETTERS Writing : a life sentence -- In hot pursuit -- Or not CB : that is the answer -- The word lady : most often used to describe someone you wouldn't want to talk to for even five minutes -- Taking a letter -- Writers on strike : a chilling prophecy -- A few words on a few words -- No news is preferable --
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Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Modified Item: No
Subject: Observational
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1978
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Fran Lebowitz
Region: North America
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Humor
