Author: GALLICO, PAUL
Title: Ludmila a Legend of Liechtenstein
Description: New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1959. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Reisie Lonette. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks and rubbed spots. There are chips at both ends of the dust jacket spine. The bottom edges, spine and front flap edge of the dust jacket have tidemarking. "In the late 1930s, he abandoned sports writing for fiction, first writing an essay about this decision entitled "Farewell to Sport" (published in an anthology of his sports writing, also titled Farewell to Sport (1938) ) , and became a successful writer of short stories for magazines, many appearing in the then-premier fiction outlet, The Saturday Evening Post. His novella The Snow Goose, and other works, are expanded versions of his magazine stories. Gallico once confessed to New York Magazine, "I'm a rotten novelist. I'm not even literary. I just like to tell stories and all my books tell stories.... If I had lived 2,000 years ago I'd be going around to caves, and I'd say, 'Can I come in? I'm hungry. I'd like some supper. In exchange, I'll tell you a story. Once upon a time there were two apes.' And I'd tell them a story about two cavemen." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: Young Adult Paul Gallico Liechtenstein Cows Humor Young Adult
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Title: Ludmila a Legend of Liechtenstein
Description: New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1959. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Reisie Lonette. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks and rubbed spots. There are chips at both ends of the dust jacket spine. The bottom edges, spine and front flap edge of the dust jacket have tidemarking. "In the late 1930s, he abandoned sports writing for fiction, first writing an essay about this decision entitled "Farewell to Sport" (published in an anthology of his sports writing, also titled Farewell to Sport (1938) ) , and became a successful writer of short stories for magazines, many appearing in the then-premier fiction outlet, The Saturday Evening Post. His novella The Snow Goose, and other works, are expanded versions of his magazine stories. Gallico once confessed to New York Magazine, "I'm a rotten novelist. I'm not even literary. I just like to tell stories and all my books tell stories.... If I had lived 2,000 years ago I'd be going around to caves, and I'd say, 'Can I come in? I'm hungry. I'd like some supper. In exchange, I'll tell you a story. Once upon a time there were two apes.' And I'd tell them a story about two cavemen." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: Young Adult Paul Gallico Liechtenstein Cows Humor Young Adult
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 39605
- Book number: 39605
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