THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY.
de Morley, Christopher
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very good
- Librería
-
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co., 1923. first edition, as stated.. hardcover. Very good. Duncan, Walter Jack. Illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan. Octavo, brown cloth spine over buff-colored boards, xii [2] 304 pages. Essays and sketches mostly written for a newspaper column "I have christened these soliloquies after dear old Sir Kenelm Digby's famous nostrum, the Powder of Sympathy. But in spite of its amiable name and properties that powder was not a talcum. Its basis was vitriol; and I fear that in some of these prescriptions I have mixed a few acid crystals." --from the preface.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000016585
- Título
- THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY.
- Autor
- Morley, Christopher
- Ilustrador
- Duncan, Walter Jack
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- first edition, as stated.
- Editorial
- Doubleday Page & Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- Garden City
- Fecha de publicación
- 1923
- Palabras clave
- Journalism, Humor
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Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
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