AMONG FRIENDS.
by Crothers, Samuel McChord
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in olive green cloth with gilt decorations and lettering (rubbing to the lettering on the spine, a humorous quote on t
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston & New York:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1910.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in olive green cloth with gilt decorations and lettering (rubbing to the lettering on the spine, a humorous quote on the front endpaper, a few pages carelessly opened with small chips to the margins, but otherwise sturdily bound, and an attractive tight and straight copy.) . First printing. A collection of nine essays, all with a significant leavening of humor. In addition to the title articles, this includes essays titled the hundred worst books, the convention of books, in praise of politicians, my missionary life in Persia, the colonel in the theological seminary, the merry devil of education and more. 278 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55704
- Title
- AMONG FRIENDS.
- Author
- Crothers, Samuel McChord
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in olive green cloth with gilt decorations and lettering (rubbing to the lettering on the spine, a humorous quote on t
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York:
- Date Published
- 1910.
- Keywords
- education, books, humor,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays;
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