AMES, NOEL (ED) - These Wonderful People: Intimate Moments in Their Lives

Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1947. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated endpapers. These brief, intimate glimpses into the lives famous people reveal them as warm, sincere human beings. Each colorful selection, whether an autobiography or biography, is so well written that you will better understand the people who move through these pages - pages in which there is struggle and heroism, happiness and sorrow, success and failure, youth and old age - pages from which emerge their great accomplishments. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Irving Berlin, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, George Washington Carver, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and many others.. Edges and corners lightly worn, gilt faded, otherwise fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. ix, (i), 495 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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