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The romance of great books and their authors / by John T. Winterich.
LIBRA - Special PR99 .W56 1929
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winterich, John T., 1891-1970.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, English.
- Authors, American.
- Literature--Anecdotes.
- Literature.
- Literature--Humor.
- First editions.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Humor.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Benjamin, A. David (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 374 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Halcyon House, [1929]
- Contents:
- Walt Whitman and Leaves of grass
- Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe
- Charles Dickens and The Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
- Izaak Walton and The compleat angler
- Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin
- George du Maurier and Trilby
- John Bunyan and The pilgrim's progress
- John James Audubon and The birds of America
- Robert Burns and his Poems
- Mark Twain and The innocents abroad
- Oliver Goldsmith and The vicar or Wakefield
- Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary of the English language
- Lewis Carroll and Alice's adventures in Wonderland
- Washington Irving and The sketch book
- Samuel Pepys and his Diary
- Edward FitzGerald and his translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Benjamin Franklin and his Autobiography
- William Makepeace Thackeray and Vanity fair.
- Notes:
- "First published under the title: Books and the man."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate "From the Library of A. David Benjamin" on front flyleaf.
- OCLC:
- 3137090
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