Books I Love: Being a Selection of 100 Titles for a Home Library, with Added Comment on Other Books, Many Authors and the Delights of Reading |
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... covers and bindings of five of the volumes and the seven survivors that I still treasure are woefully weak in the ... cover set small in price as well as size and thus I kept my pockets stocked with my favorite plays when on my way to ...
... covers and bindings of five of the volumes and the seven survivors that I still treasure are woefully weak in the ... cover set small in price as well as size and thus I kept my pockets stocked with my favorite plays when on my way to ...
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... cover . And this newer and gaudier copy was not auto- graphed . up for However , I put no great premium on the ordinary auto- graphed book . It has become the custom for authors to attend autographing bees in bookstores and scribble ...
... cover . And this newer and gaudier copy was not auto- graphed . up for However , I put no great premium on the ordinary auto- graphed book . It has become the custom for authors to attend autographing bees in bookstores and scribble ...
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... covers . All contemporary , of course , and of sentimental rather than financial value . Thus I have a letter from Edwin Way Teale under the front cover of each one of his nature books and an extra bundle of letters from him in a file ...
... covers . All contemporary , of course , and of sentimental rather than financial value . Thus I have a letter from Edwin Way Teale under the front cover of each one of his nature books and an extra bundle of letters from him in a file ...
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