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 99
... Sometimes authors destroy their own manu- scripts before they get into print ; but that , as Scheherezade used to say , is another story . They Married Their Publishers Some fine friendships grow out of the author- publisher ...
... Sometimes authors destroy their own manu- scripts before they get into print ; but that , as Scheherezade used to say , is another story . They Married Their Publishers Some fine friendships grow out of the author- publisher ...
Page 100
... Sometimes the uneasy guests insist on being searched - all but one man who refuses with quiet dignity , and ultimately is shown to have been concealing a cruller that he was taking home to his starving wife and children . In this ...
... Sometimes the uneasy guests insist on being searched - all but one man who refuses with quiet dignity , and ultimately is shown to have been concealing a cruller that he was taking home to his starving wife and children . In this ...
Page 133
... sometimes addressed by her sister Lavinia and sometimes by the unusual expedient of pasting up printed characters cut from the newspapers . Those notes would be worth a pretty penny today ! They were not long , usually only a line or ...
... sometimes addressed by her sister Lavinia and sometimes by the unusual expedient of pasting up printed characters cut from the newspapers . Those notes would be worth a pretty penny today ! They were not long , usually only a line or ...
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