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OLD TIME AND YOUNG TOM.
by Burdette, Robert J. (1844-1914)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good overall in burnt sienna cloth with gilt lettering, embossed design on front cover - missing front endpaper, some shelfwear /burnt sienna cloth with gilt lettering, embossed design on front cover - missing front endpaper, some shelfwear to the edges of
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,, (1912). Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in burnt sienna cloth with gilt lettering, embossed design on front cover - missing front endpaper, some shelfwear to the edges of the boards and offsetting to the rear endpapers from the newspaper laid in, no dust jacket. . First edition. A collection of essays and speeches by this American newspaperman, humorist and later a clergyman who became well-known through his paragraphs in Iowa's 'The Burlington Hawkeye' which he joined in 1872. Includes his most famous lecture, "The Rise and Fall of the Mustache" - in the foreword, he claims to have given this speech more than 5000 times. Laid in is a newspaper article from shortly after his death and tipped onto the rear endpaper is a picture of his final home in California. Top edge gilt. 325 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85792
- Title
- OLD TIME AND YOUNG TOM.
- Author
- Burdette, Robert J. (1844-1914)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good overall in burnt sienna cloth with gilt lettering, embossed design on front cover - missing front endpaper, some shelfwear
- Jacket Condition
- burnt sienna cloth with gilt lettering, embossed design on front cover - missing front endpaper, some shelfwear to the edges of
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill,
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis:
- Date Published
- (1912)
- Keywords
- lectures, speeches, vintage books,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor, Cartoons, Satire;
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Ione, California
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- Shelfwear
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- Cloth
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