The Holiday Reader; More Than 700 Pages of Stories, Poems, and Essays, Especially Edited for Vacation Enjoyment.
Published by Simon & Schuster, 1947
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.Cragsmoor Books
AbeBooks seller since November 3, 1998
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 16.72
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Terracotta emb. cl., gilt lettering, lines to bkstr. dj. worn, one large tear bottom front, chipping at bkstr. Name on front free endpaper. xviii, 750pp. incl. 3 quizzes. Contributors: Hemingway, Maugham, MacKinlay Kantor, Dorothy Parker, Irwin Shaw, James Stephens, Erskine Caldwell, James Street, Stephen Vincent Benet, Pearl Buck, Faulkner, John Russell, Ben Hecht, Max Beerbohm, Clarence Day, Ring Lardner, S. J. Perelman, Saki, Lee Strout White, Ludwig Bemelmans, Ruth McKenney, Jack Goodman and Alan Green, Damon Runyon, H. Allen Smith, Bennett Perf, Robert Benchley, Louis Untermeyer, Margaret Fishback, Ogden Nash, E. B. White, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Hoffenstein, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Guiterman, Noel Coward, Phyllis McGinley, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck and E. F. Ricketts, James R. Ullman, Henry Beston, Rachel L. Carson, Sally Carrighar, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, J. B. S. Haldane, E. M. Forster, Philip MacDonald, Alexander Woollcott, M. R. James, Alternon Blackwood, John Colllier, D. K. Broster, Edmund Pearson, Raymond Chandler, Matthew Arnold, W. H. Auden, Rupert Brooke, Lord Byron, John Donne, Robert Frost, Robert Herrick, A. E. Housman, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Vachel Lindsay, H. W. Longfellow, Andrew Marvell, John Masefield, Archibald MacLeish, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Shakespeare Sonnets, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stephen Spender, Sir John Suckling, John Hall Wheelock, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Elinor Wylie, William Butler Yeats, Joseph Mitchell, H. L. Mencken, M. F. K. Fisher, G. B. Stern, Della T. Lutes, Osbert Burdett, William M. Thackeray, A. P.Herbert, Sidney Smith, Sir Walter Raleigh, Abraham Cowley.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Holiday Reader; More Than 700 Pages of Stories, Poems, and Essays, Especially Edited for Vacation Enjoyment.
- Author
- Smith, Bernard and Philip Van Doren Stern, eds.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication year
- 1947
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- American Literature, British Literature
Cragsmoor Books
Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 3, 1998
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