Cheerio's Book Of Days: Comfort, Cheer and Encouragement For Every Day in the Year (signed, numbered limited edition)
by Cheerio"; ; Gordon Ross (illus)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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)
- 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
- Bookseller catalogs
- Entertainment;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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