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 35
... original , but prized by con- noisseurs , is Clifford Orr's parody , " A Bookseller's Christmas Carol , " contributed to seasonal hilarity about ten years ago . Here are its memorable opening lines : " London was wrapt in fog . Great ...
... original , but prized by con- noisseurs , is Clifford Orr's parody , " A Bookseller's Christmas Carol , " contributed to seasonal hilarity about ten years ago . Here are its memorable opening lines : " London was wrapt in fog . Great ...
Page 87
... original ballad , among them stanzas of scintillating ingenuity by such Columbian authorities as Frank R. Stockton and Mark Twain . By the end of the first decade of the present century these were being sung where- ever men raised their ...
... original ballad , among them stanzas of scintillating ingenuity by such Columbian authorities as Frank R. Stockton and Mark Twain . By the end of the first decade of the present century these were being sung where- ever men raised their ...
Page 199
... original slipper in this recurring romance would appear to have been of gold , a material as uncomfortable as glass , if it comes to that . In Grimm's version of the episode , which in its oral state may have antedated Perrault's , the ...
... original slipper in this recurring romance would appear to have been of gold , a material as uncomfortable as glass , if it comes to that . In Grimm's version of the episode , which in its oral state may have antedated Perrault's , the ...
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