Twice Thirty : some short and simple annals of the road / by Edward W. Bok author of "The Americanization of Edward Bok" "Two Persons," "A Man from Maine" Editor of "Great Hollanders".

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930, author.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Franklin Baldwin Wiley Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930.

Bok, Edward William.

Journalists--Biography.

Journalists.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Birdwhistell, Robert Nevins, family of (donor)

Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 (autograph)

Wiley, Franklin Baldwin, 1861- (inscription)

Physical Description:

vi, [2], 539, [9] pages, [1] unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.

Contents:

Why This Book was Written

On Being Born

The Child with the Inquiring Mind

My Friend, the Truck Driver

That Muffler at Dubernell's

The Tale of a Tail

"From Paper, Pen and Ink"

In Pursuit of the Great

The Hands that Wrote Them

"An Experience You Know Not Of"

"My Own Four Walls"

An Experiment with Two Lives

"Which Grain Will Grow"

When Youth and Greatness Meet

The Twenty-Sixth President of the United States

The Joys of the Road and the Rostrum

My Most Unusual Experience

A Gentleman among the Nations of the World

"Well, I Didn't Know That!"

Do We Really Do Things?

The Worst Birthday in a Man's Life

When Tom Went to France

Your Neighbor at an English Table

The Man Who Saw the Sea

The President

Twice- Born in Twice Thirty

After Five Years of "Play"

"Out of Touch" in Florida

The Man who Wouldn't Sell his Father

"It Can't be Done"

Why

The American Peace Award

Is It Worth While?

With Which I Close

The Book of the Past and This Book

But

Biographical Data.

Notes:

"Copyright, 1924, 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons"--Title page verso.

Contains [5] pages of advertisements for "Mr. Bok's Other Books" at end.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.

PN4874.B63.B633 1925: Sold by David J. Holmes Autographs (Hamilton, New York), 2010. Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Walter J. Miller Trust, the Althea Hottel and Abraham S. Hottel, Jr. Fund, and from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund has gray quarter cloth spine with label and black paper covered boards with gold design. This copy is inscribed "For Franklin B. Wiley with the affectionate regard of his associate and friend of many years. Edward W. Bok, January 1925".

OCLC:

332771