Louder and Funnier: After-Dinner Speeches and Other Mistakes
by Shafer, Burr
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vanguard Press, Inc., 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Noted "Saturday Review" cartoonist takes a jab at after-dinner speakers "& those doomed to listen to him." Unpaginated. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1951, this copy has a bookplate inscribed "Best Wishes to a Fellow Toastmaster" SIGNED by the AUTHOR. Oblong hardcover with decorative blue cloth over boards is in VG condition, marred only by modest rubbing to extremities, heaviest at corners & both ends of spine. Otherwise, completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages slightly off-white. The unclipped DJ with orig. $2.50 price at bottom of front flap) is also VG, with slight edgewear. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016478
- Title
- Louder and Funnier: After-Dinner Speeches and Other Mistakes
- Author
- Shafer, Burr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Vanguard Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- PUBLIC SPEAKING SPEAKERS TOASTMASTERS TOAST MASTER SPEECH HUMOR JOKES CARTOON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; Comic Art/Cartoons/Humor/Animation/Graphic Novels;
Terms of Sale
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
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