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If you can't say something nice / Calvin Trillin.
LIBRA - Rare PS3570.R5 I3 1987 Malgieri copy
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LIBRA - Special PS3570.R5 I3 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trillin, Calvin.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 257 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1987.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Doing my talent
- The motto-maker's art
- Iran may be Iraq
- The line on lines
- Fred's fiftieth
- My life in wine
- Still truly needy
- Whom says so?
- Old marrieds
- Loaded for raccoon
- Diseases of the mighty
- To catch a wonk
- The chicken à la king question
- Hate thy neighbor
- Invasion of the limo-stretchers
- Did the Marcoses seem rich?
- Spelling yiffniff
- Flimsy envelopes
- Castro forgotten, alas
- Flunking the test
- My life in poetry
- Social notes from Aunt Rosie
- Invitation from Mrs. T.
- Not hiring Deaver
- Oreos to the moon
- My team
- Calories may not count
- The correct change
- Design disagreement
- Reagan is told of Norwegian whaling infractions
- Important volumes
- New well blues
- Secrets of the deep
- Fear of chiggers
- The inside on insider trading
- Tax reform blues
- Geography lesson
- Corporate triumphs
- Using it all
- Deity overload
- Touched by the little touches
- Columbus sailed the River Blue
- The Gipper lives
- My life in art
- Confessions of a crank
- The Gipper still lives
- Missouri uncompromised
- Unisys revealed
- Kashfleau's problem
- I come clean, finally
- Conspiracy maybe, but no plot
- Gurus' shoes
- My senator
- Available for special occasions
- Wherefore art thou Nittany?
- The old stories are the best stories
- I'll take the low road
- Managing the Cherry Tree Scandal
- Chances are
- Gentlemanly acts
- Flunking the bank exam
- Tokyo law
- Inspecting the cork
- Success.
- Notes:
- "The first thirteen pieces in this book first appeared as columns published in 'The Nation'. The remainder were distribute for publication through King Features Syndicate."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0899195318 :
- OCLC:
- 15629942
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