Published by M Evans & Co, 1994
ISBN 10: 0871317427 ISBN 13: 9780871317421
Seller: More Than Words, Waltham, MA, U.S.A.
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Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City NY, 1971
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Winding, Thomas (illustrator). Brown boards are rubbed on edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7Ÿ" - 9Ÿ" tall.
Published by Dorset Press, New York, 1971
ISBN 10: 0880296194 ISBN 13: 9780880296199
Seller: Dick's Book Barn, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Drawings by Thomas Winding (illustrator). Book is tight and clean; dust jacket is very good with only minor shelving marks.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1971
Seller: CS Books and More, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Thomas Winding (illustrator). Presumed First. Lives of the Musical Greats and Other Facts You Never Knew You Were Missing. Edition not indicated, could be first. Tight and clean in tan cloth, a little wear on spine ends; Jacket bright and unclipped, minor wear on spine ends. ALL BOOK JACKETS ARE PROTECTED IN PLASTIC COVERS.
Published by Doubleday and Company, Garden City New York, 1971
Seller: Lavender Path Antiques & Books, Harwinton, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Thomas Winding (illustrator). First Edition; Fifth Printing. Faint rubbing to dust jacket and cover edges. ; Signed by Victor Borge with personal inscription on illustration next to Overture (Introduction page) Illustration on hard cover. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 189 pages; Signed by Author.
Published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1971
ISBN 10: 038502651X ISBN 13: 9780385026512
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN 038502651X. Hardback. No Statement of later printing on the copyright page. Book is signed by the author with his full name only VICTOR BORGE on the half title page, Otherwise a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. Price clipped Dustjacket is in Very Good condition with slight edgewear. We have placed the dustjacket in a Brodart clear plastic protective cover and it looks much better than described. Signed by Authors.
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Published by Doubleday and Company, New York, 1971
ISBN 10: 038502651X ISBN 13: 9780385026512
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Thomas Winding; (illustrator). First Edition. 189 pp. Personalized inscription by Victor Borge on the front free endpaper. Brown boards decorated in white on the front panel and spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author(s). Book.
Published by Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1971
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Inscribed & signed by co-author Robert Sherman. 2nd printing. Small octavo. B&W illustrations. A small archive of letters, greeting cards & newspaper clippings from Sherman are loosely inserted in the book. Condition: mild shelf-wear; else very good in very good DJ. 189 pages. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York, 1971
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Winding, Thomas (illustrator). 1st Edition. Publisher's binding with gilt lettering on spine, dust jacket with very slight chipping, protected by mylar. 189 pages with 22 comic drawings. Author's inscription "Best wishes - Victor Borge" on front flypaper, also includes a ticket stub from a performance of Mr. Borge's at Chabot College on October 13, 1984. Victor Borge (1909-2000) was a Danish and American comedian and musician. His comedy act included many musical elements. This volume is a humorous look at the lives of many great composers. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Doubleday and Company, Garden City, NY, 1971
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Winding, Thomas (illustrator). Reprint. Sixth printing. 189, [3] p. illus. 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. From Wikipedia: "Victor Borge (3 January 1909 23 December 2000), born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish and American comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Unmelancholy Dane, and The Great Dane.Borge was born Børge Rosenbaum in Copenhagen, Denmark, into a Jewish family. His parents, Bernhard and Frederikke (Uchtinger) Rosenbaum, were both musicians his father a violist in the Royal Danish Orchestra and his mother a pianist. Like his mother, Borge began piano lessons at the age of two, and it was soon apparent that he was a prodigy. He gave his first piano recital when he was eight years old, and in 1918 was awarded a full scholarship at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, studying under Olivo Krause.Borge played his first major concert in 1926 at the Danish concert-hall Odd Fellow Palæet (The Odd Fellow's Lodge building). After a few years as a classical concert pianist, he started his now famous "stand up" act, with the signature blend of piano music and jokes.When the Nazis occupied Denmark during World War II, Borge was playing a concert in Sweden, and managed to escape to Finland. He traveled to America on the USS American Legion, the last neutral ship to make it out of Petsamo, Finland, and arrived 28 August 1940, with only 20 dollars (equal to $328 today), with $3 (equal to $49.16 today) going to the customs fee.Even though Borge did not speak a word of English upon arrival, he quickly managed to adapt his jokes to the American audience, learning English by watching movies. He took the name of Victor Borge, and, in 1941, he started on Rudy Vallee's radio show, but was hired soon after by Bing Crosby for his Kraft Music Hall. From then on, fame rose quickly for Borge, who won Best New Radio Performer of the Year in 1942. Soon after the award, he was offered film roles with stars such as Frank Sinatra (in Higher and Higher). While hosting The Victor Borge Show on NBC beginning in 1946, he developed many of his trademarks, including repeatedly announcing his intent to play a piece but getting "distracted" by something or other, making comments about the audience, or discussing the usefulness of Chopin's "Minute Waltz" as an egg timer. Or he would start out with some well-known classical piece like Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and suddenly move into a harmonically suitable pop or jazz tune like Cole Porter's "Night and Day" or "Happy Birthday to You". Among Borge's other famous routines is the "Phonetic Punctuation" routine, in which he recites a story, with full punctuation (comma, period, exclamation mark, etc. ) as exaggerated onomatopoeic sounds. Another is his "Inflationary Language", where he incremented numbers embedded in words, whether they are visible or not ("once upon a time" becomes "twice upon a time", "wonderful" becomes "twoderful", "forehead" becomes "fivehead", "tennis" becomes "elevennis", "I ate a tenderloin with my fork and so on and so forth" becomes "'I nine an elevenderloin with my five'k' and so on and so fifth"). Borge used physical and visual elements in his live and televised performances. He would play a strange-sounding piano tune from sheet music, looking increasingly confused; turning the sheet upside down, he would then play the actual tune, flashing a joyful smile of accomplishment to the audience (he had, at first, been literally playing the actual tune upside down). When his energetic playing of another song would cause him to fall off the piano bench, he would open the seat lid, take out the two ends of an automotive seat belt, and buckle himself onto the bench, "for safety." Conducting an orchestra, he might stop and order a violinist who had played a sour note to get off the stage, then resume the performance and have the other members of the section move up to fill the empty seat while they were still playing. From off stage would come the sound of a gunshot. His musical sidekick in the 19.