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Paul Pry's Jest Book: Being a choice collection of comical jests, droll adventures, touches of humour, excellent bon-mots, pleasing short stories, whimsical anecdotes, Irish bulls and blunders, with many other diverting pieces, original and select, inscribed to the sons and daughters of mirth

Paul Pry's Jest Book: Being a choice collection of comical jests, droll adventures, touches of humour, excellent bon-mots, pleasing short stories, whimsical anecdotes, Irish bulls and blunders, with many other diverting pieces, original and select, inscribed to the sons and daughters of mirth

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Paul Pry's Jest Book: Being a choice collection of comical jests, droll adventures, touches of humour, excellent bon-mots, pleasing short stories, whimsical anecdotes, Irish bulls and blunders, with many other diverting pieces, original and select, inscribed to the sons and daughters of mirth
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Green printed boards. Some rubbing, foot of spine repaired. Lacking front flyleaf, small loss to lower flyleaf. Very good
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London: Printed for Joseph Smith, 1828. Frontispiece. 144 pp. 1 vols. Narrow 12mo. Green printed boards. Some rubbing, foot of spine repaired. Lacking front flyleaf, small loss to lower flyleaf. Very good. Frontispiece. 144 pp. 1 vols. Narrow 12mo. Paul Pry was a popular farce of the mid 1820s, where the eponymous character leaves his umbrella behind as a pretext to return and eavesdrop on conversations. In the twentieth century, Paul Pry was adopted by Thomas Burke as the pseudonym on his heavily coded, pioneering gay guide to London, For Your Convenience (1937). Uncommon. OCLC: 10523299 (3 locations)
You Who Have Dreams

You Who Have Dreams by ANDERSON, Maxwell

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You Who Have Dreams
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ANDERSON, Maxwell
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1925. Limited Edition. First Printing, one of 1000 copies, of which this is no.877. Octavo (21.5cm); light blue cloth-covered boards, with title labels on spine and front cover; light blue endpapers; dustjacket; 71pp; illus. Modest shelfwear, with light tanning and rubbing to spine ends and board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2), with modest shelf-wear and tanning, 2.5" tear to front spine fold and mostly separated along rear spine fold, 1" tear to lower front flap fold, 1" chip to lower rear panel, and tiny tears and chips to spine ends and extremities; Good. Anderson's first collection of verse, with 36 poems. [84070].

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