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The joys of reading; life's greatest pleasure / by Burton Rascoe.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 R1833 937j
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading.
- Authors.
- Best books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 186 pages ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- Garden City, N. Y., U. S. A. : Printed at the Country Life Press.
- Other Title:
- Life's greatest pleasure
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1937.
- Contents:
- The joys of reading
- Kinds of reading
- Every man his own university
- How to read
- The art of reading
- On making notes and marginal comments
- How to judge literary values
- Select reading lists
- Lists of best books
- Libraries
- Authors: A gossip on their ways of life and work.
- Notes:
- Title printed within double-ruled border.
- "Copyright, 1937 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc."
- Purple cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Burton Rascoe.
- OCLC:
- 537829
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