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The week-end book / Editor: Francis Meynell ; advised by Sylvia Mulvey and Gerald Barry.
LIBRA PR1112 .W44 1955 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Miscellanea.
- English poetry.
- Literary recreations.
- Miscellanea.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- x, 580 pages : illustrations, charts, music ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- New edition, the former features revised and amplified and six new sections, all freshly embellished.
- Manufacture:
- England : Made and printed at The Stellar Press.
- Place of Publication:
- London : The Nonesuch Press ; New York : Random House Inc., [1955]
- Contents:
- Great poems
- Late poems
- Hate poems
- State poems
- Epigrams
- The zoo
- All creatures that on earth do dwell
- The green and pleasant land and how it came to so
- The fields and the beasts thereof
- A kalendar of wild flower
- Bird song at morning
- Starshine at night
- Rounds and songs
- Weights and weathers
- Games
- On food and drink
- Architecture
- First aid
- The law and how you break it
- Etiquette
- 'Qualities'.
- Notes:
- "This edition first published 1955."
- Illustrated endpapers.
- "The end-papers are by Mrs. Caroe, and the section headpieces are by Mr. Philip Burgoyne."--P. x.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has dustjacket retained, copy 2 has partial dustjacket laid in.
- OCLC:
- 222817758
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