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The Compleat Practical Joker
by Smith, H. Allen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus
- Seller
-
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Garden City / Doubleday & Co., 1954. -----Tan cloth with black lettering on spine, headband, 320 pages, ink name on ffep, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition price clipped with minor edge wear. "H. Allen Smith has written the first comprehensive book about the ancient & honorable pastime of practical jokery & about the people, great & small, who have practiced it. The imaginative, the complicated, the subtle, the funny - the very, very funny - comprise its subject matter, while the crude "induced pratfall or disappearing chair" school of pranksters is given short shrift. Through these pages gleefully flit such masters of the art as Douglas Fairbanks, Alexandre Woollcott, Antole France, Lord Halifax, Darryl Zanuck, and the Living Buddha." The scan you see is the book you get. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Chas Addams cover artist. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007135
- Title
- The Compleat Practical Joker
- Author
- Smith, H. Allen
- Illustrator
- Chas Addams cover artist
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Garden City / Doubleday & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Smith, H. Allen, the Compleat Practical Joker , Chas Addams cover artist , -----Tan cloth with black lettering on spine, headband, 320 pages, ink name on ffep, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition price clipped with minor edge wear. "H. Allen
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Terms of Sale
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Hamilton, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
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