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Eccentricities of Genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage
by Pond, Major J. B
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, owner name penciled on front free endpaper, front hinge cracked, foxing to front
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: G. W. Dillingham Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, owner name penciled on front . free endpaper, front hinge cracked, foxing to front and rear endpapers.. 1900. Hardcover. Green cloth stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece photo and facsimile signature of the author and many other photo portraits of the nearly 100 orators and performers profiled in this book. xxvi, 564 pp. Chapters entitled: Orators; Pulpit Orators; Humorists; Women Lecturers and Singers; Explorers, Travellers, and War Correspondents; Actors and Dramatic Critics; Literary Lecturers; Miscellaneous; Author Readers and Lecturers; and, General Survey of the Lyceum Field. Includes profiles of Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Ernest Thompson Seton, Booker T. Washington, Thomas Nast, P. T. Barnum, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37794
- Title
- Eccentricities of Genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage
- Author
- Pond, Major J. B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, owner name penciled on front free endpaper, front hinge cracked, foxing to front
- Publisher
- G. W. Dillingham Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- 19th Century Actors, 19th Century Performers, 19th Century Orators
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre and Film; Biography and Memoir;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Gilt
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- Facsimile
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