Barbed Wit & Malicious Humor
by Mahony, Patrick
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: The Citadel Press, 1956. Mr. Mahony, famed Irish wit and lecturer, is ideally suited to bring you this remarkable collection of stinging anecdotes and stories. The book contains the cream of verbal abuse and attacks practiced by the famous and infamous over a period of two hundred years. The subject matter of the thirteen chapters include... Literary Larking.... Hollywood Hilarity.... Dramatic Drollery.... Musical Merriment.... Artistic Antics.... Social Satire.... Royal Roundup.... Legal Laughs.... Political Polemics.... Lecturing Laxity.... Dictator's Delemmas.... Travellers' Tales and Religious Revelling. A very entertaining book. For the public speaker - A MUST! Minimal wear to bottom edge of book. Price-intact dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B1026
- Title
- Barbed Wit & Malicious Humor
- Author
- Mahony, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Citadel Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Horace Greely - Rudyard Kipling - Lord Tennyson - Ernest Hemingway - James Joyce Political Polemics - Senator Taft - Theodore Roosevelt - Winston Churchill
- Bookseller catalogs
- HUMOUR;
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