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Cheerio's Book Of Days: Comfort, Cheer and Encouragement For Every Day in the Year (signed, numbered limited edition)

Cheerio's Book Of Days: Comfort, Cheer and Encouragement For Every Day in the Year (signed, numbered limited edition)

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Cheerio's Book Of Days: Comfort, Cheer and Encouragement For Every Day in the Year (signed, numbered limited edition)

by Cheerio"; ; Gordon Ross (illus)

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New York: Garden City Publishing, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octave hardcover in black cloth decorated in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Drawings by Gordon Ross. One of 5000 numbered copies signed by "Cheerio" on the limitation page (this being # 4409). 366 pp. plus index by author. Very good; issued without dust jacket. Compilation of short pieces of prose and poetry for every day of the year. "Cheerio", a radio personality from 1927 to 1940, whose daily programs, heard across the country on numerous stations, broadcast pieces of prose, poetry, music and positive messages "calculated to start the day in a happy frame of mind". The identity of Cheerio was unkown to the public though according to a New York Times article of June 3, 1928, he may have been Charles Field, a New York businessman and classmate of Herbert Hoover.

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Bookseller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
E29465
Title
Cheerio's Book Of Days: Comfort, Cheer and Encouragement For Every Day in the Year (signed, numbered limited edition)
Author
Cheerio"; ; Gordon Ross (illus)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Garden City Publishing
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1940
Keywords
radio, signed,autographed, broadcasting
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Entertainment;

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About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)

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