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A magnificent farce, and other diversions of a book-collector.[A magnificent farce.--On commencing author.--Luck.--What is the matter with the bookshop?--A slogan for booksellers.--"'Tis not in mortals to command success."--Meditations on a quarto Hamlet.--Walt Whitman.--"20."--Living twenty-five hours a day.--A sane view of William Blake.--My old lady, London]
by Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940. [Christopher Morley, Joshua Reynolds, R E Pine, William Blake, Joseph Pennell, Luigi Kasimir ; association copy: Boyd Cummings Barrington, 1869-1947]
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Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921, 1921. Good. xx, 267 p. col. front., plates, ports., map, facsims. 22 cm. ; LCCN: 21-18320 ; LC: Z992; Dewey: 010 ; OCLC: 385941 ; brown cloth with leather spine and paper labels ; Contents: --Purely personal -- A magnificent farce.--On commencing author.--Luck.--What is the matter with the bookshop?--A slogan for booksellers.--"'Tis not in mortals to command success."--Meditations on a quarto Hamlet.--Walt Whitman.--"20."--Living twenty-five hours a day.--A sane view of William Blake.--My old lady, London ; illustrated ; with bookplate of Boyd Cummings Barrington, the Philadelphia lawyer and author of books and articles on the history of the Magna Carta ; spine creased ; foxing ; edge water mark on cover ; G
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- A magnificent farce, and other diversions of a book-collector.[A magnificent farce.--On commencing author.--Luck.--What is the matter with the bookshop?--A slogan for booksellers.--"'Tis not in mortals to command success."--Meditations on a quarto Hamlet.--Walt Whitman.--"20."--Living twenty-five hours a day.--A sane view of William Blake.--My old lady, London]
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- Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940. [Christopher Morley, Joshua Reynolds, R E Pine, William Blake, Joseph Pennell, Luigi Kasimir ; association copy: Boyd Cummings Barrington, 1869-1947]
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- Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921
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- 1921
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- A magnificent farce.--On commencing author.--Luck.--What is the matter with the bookshop?--A slogan for booksellers.--"'Tis not in mortals to command success."--Meditations on a quarto Hamlet.--Walt Whitman.--"20."--Living twenty-five hours a day.--A sane
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