The Golden Humorous Reciter; Prose & Verse for Reading & Recitation
by James, Cairns (editor)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Seeley, Service & Co. [no date], 5th edition. (Hardcover) 704pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Red embossed cloth with gilt titles to the spine. There is a previous owner's blind stamp to the first two pages, the spine is worn at the top and bottom, and the back cover has a diagonal scuff mark. " 'Humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.' It is such genial humour that this volume is intended to present, avoiding everything that might wound religious feeling or offend refined sensibility" - from the Preface. (Humor, Anthologies, Humor, Recitations, Verse).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153913
- Title
- The Golden Humorous Reciter; Prose & Verse for Reading & Recitation
- Author
- James, Cairns (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Seeley, Service & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Humor, Anthologies, Humor, Recitations, Verse
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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