NORWOOD, GILBERT

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Toronto, ON: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. DJ discoloured, some wear to edges and extemities. Lightly bumped bottom corners. Laid paper with side and bottom edges untrimmed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 209 pages; Norwood was a Professor of Classics in Britain for many years until he was offered the position of Professor of Classics and Director of Classical Studies in Toronto in 1928. A series of humourous newspaper and magazine pieces on a wide and varied field of subjects and personal anecdotes written over a period of 15 years, totally apart from his field of study.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 1970

Catalogue: Journalism::Canada::Humor

Keywords: HUMOR Greek latin anecdotes Toronto Classics HUMOR Biographies & Memoirs