Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 79
... John Wesley Pringle , Jacques Anatole Thiebault , Gabriel Betteredge or Enoch Soames ? And what of John Charteris and Oliver Armiston ? Are you really well read - or are you one of that vast army of pretenders who get their principal ...
... John Wesley Pringle , Jacques Anatole Thiebault , Gabriel Betteredge or Enoch Soames ? And what of John Charteris and Oliver Armiston ? Are you really well read - or are you one of that vast army of pretenders who get their principal ...
Page 172
... John Stow . Only scholars or curious bibliobrowsers , perhaps , remember John Stow , the Cornhill tailor , whose special greatness it was that he recorded the city of London that he saw around him . His Survey of Lon- don , published in ...
... John Stow . Only scholars or curious bibliobrowsers , perhaps , remember John Stow , the Cornhill tailor , whose special greatness it was that he recorded the city of London that he saw around him . His Survey of Lon- don , published in ...
Page 180
... John Henry Wrenn , edited by Fannie E. Ratchford , we have a documented sequel to the Carter - Pollard disclosures , announcing further forgeries and involving in the guilt two other dis- tinguished English bibliophiles and men of ...
... John Henry Wrenn , edited by Fannie E. Ratchford , we have a documented sequel to the Carter - Pollard disclosures , announcing further forgeries and involving in the guilt two other dis- tinguished English bibliophiles and men of ...
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