Author: MARQUIS, DON
Title: Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady (By a Gentleman with a Blue Beard) and Famous Love Affairs
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, 1929. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Stuart Hay. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book cover have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear, along with some light fraying. The bottom corners of the book covers have some light loss of paper. The text pages are clean and bright. The front endpaper has been clipped at the top edge and the rear pastedown page has a previous owner's inked initials on the top edge. "Donald Robert Perry Marquis (July 29, 1878 in Walnut, Illinois – December 29, 1937 in New York City) was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, "the Old Soak," who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play (1922–23) , a silent movie (1926) and a talkie (1937).". Very Good .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Don Marquis Poetry Humor Satire Romance Love Relationships Modern Fiction
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Title: Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady (By a Gentleman with a Blue Beard) and Famous Love Affairs
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, 1929. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Stuart Hay. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book cover have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear, along with some light fraying. The bottom corners of the book covers have some light loss of paper. The text pages are clean and bright. The front endpaper has been clipped at the top edge and the rear pastedown page has a previous owner's inked initials on the top edge. "Donald Robert Perry Marquis (July 29, 1878 in Walnut, Illinois – December 29, 1937 in New York City) was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, "the Old Soak," who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play (1922–23) , a silent movie (1926) and a talkie (1937).". Very Good .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Don Marquis Poetry Humor Satire Romance Love Relationships Modern Fiction
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 34792
- Book number: 34792
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