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Condition: Bueno. : Sumérgete en una colección de relatos humorísticos de algunos de los escritores más ingeniosos de la literatura inglesa. Esta antología reúne a autores clásicos como Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse e Iris Murdoch, entre otros, ofreciendo una amplia gama de estilos y perspectivas cómicas. Desde sátiras sociales hasta situaciones absurdas, este libro promete risas y entretenimiento para los amantes del humor inteligente. EAN: 9780862733872 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción|Entretenimiento Título: Great Humorous Stories Autor: Harry Secombe| Bret Harte| Barry Pain| Seán O'Faoláin| Basil Boothroyd| Iris Murdoch| P. G. Wodehouse| Geoffrey Willans| H. F. Ellis| George S. Kaufman| David Niven| Nathaniel Gubbins| Douglas Sutherland| Phyllis Eleanor Bentley| Mark Twain| Gilbert Keith Chesterton| Dorothy Parker| Oscar Wilde| James Thurber| John Verney| O. Henry| Jerome Klapka Jerome| Max Apple| John Wyndham| Robert J. Burdette| Rudyard Kipling| Frederic Raphael| Douglas Adams| Peter Ustinov| Arnold Bennett| Gerald Malcolm Durrell| James Herriot| John Mole| William Somerset Maugham| David Nobbs| Groucho Marx| Keith Waterhouse| Alasdair Gray| Bob Larbey| Ronald Searle| Rob Buckman| Sue Townsend| Paul Theroux| George Grossmith| Auberon Waugh| Arthur Marshall| Stephen Leacock| Ring Lardner| E. F. Benson| Neil Boyd| Fran Lebowitz| C. Northcote Parkinson| Saki| Weedon Grossmith| Giovannino Guareschi| Robert Robinson| Nancy Mitford| Joyce Grenfell| Art Buchwald| Damon Runyon| E. M. Delafield| A. C. Games| Jean Davis| Patrick Campbell Editorial: Octopus Idioma: eng Páginas: 792 Formato: tapa dura.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of American short horror stories. Featured are The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford, Ligela by Edgar Allan Poe, A Ghost Story by Mark Twain, The Ghost of Dr. Harris by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White, The Transferred Ghost by Frank R. Stockton, The Real Right Thing by Henry James, The Water Ghost of Harroway Hall by John Kendrick Bangs, The Eyes by Edith Wharton, The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews, Consequences by Willa Cather. Light reading crease to the spine. In near fine condition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Tor / A Tom Doherty Associates Book [1994]. Good. 1994. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 0812551788 . First edition. Pictorial [Jim Thiesen art] wrappers, 217 pages collecting 12 stories. Good or better copy [cover rubbed with a scratch and short lower corner crease to the rear cover, name inside the front cover]. .

Half Leather. Condition: Good. Half leather with marbled boards. 812 pp. Bound volume, lacking any original wrappers issued. January through June issues of the Atlantic Monthly, for 1879. Includes three pieces by Mark Twain, "Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton," "About Magnanimous-Incident Literature," and "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, IV;" three by Henry David Thoreau, including "April Days," "Days in June;" and "May Days;" poetry by Henry Longfellow, work by Henry James, etc. GOOD+ condition. Minor fading and soiling to the covers. Minor scuffing to the extremities. Moderate toning in the interior. Very minor scattered foxing throughout.

1/2 leather. 812 p. Contents: Three pieces by Mark Twain--Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton--About Magnanimous Incident Literature--Rambling Notes of an Idle Life Excursion; A little tour in France and Recent Florence by Henry James; Four poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; My Aviary by Oliver Wendell Holmes; A Lost Lover by Sarah O. Jewett; Days in June and May Days by Henry D. Thoreau, and much more. Beautifully bound by Mills, Frew and Co. Brown leather spine and corner covers over brown pebbled boards, with five raised bands on spine with gold borders, marbled endpages, and marbled page edges. A painted number on the spine suggests ex-library, but there are no other such marks. There is an insect tract in the leather on the front cover. A number is marked through on the third endpage. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.