THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY.
by Morley, Christopher
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co., 1923. first edition, as stated.. hardcover. Very good. Duncan, Walter Jack. Illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan. Octavo, brown cloth spine over buff-colored boards, xii [2] 304 pages. Essays and sketches mostly written for a newspaper column "I have christened these soliloquies after dear old Sir Kenelm Digby's famous nostrum, the Powder of Sympathy. But in spite of its amiable name and properties that powder was not a talcum. Its basis was vitriol; and I fear that in some of these prescriptions I have mixed a few acid crystals." --from the preface.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000016585
- Title
- THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY.
- Author
- Morley, Christopher
- Illustrator
- Duncan, Walter Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition, as stated.
- Publisher
- Doubleday Page & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Journalism, Humor
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