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Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. This is the Temple Edition of William Shakespeare's play, "The Comedy of Errors". The book was edited, with a Preface, Glossary and Notes by Israel Gollancz, and published by J. M. Dent in London . This is the 7th Temple Edition, issued in August 1902. It is the shortest of Shakespeare's plays; according to "The Oxford Companion to English Literature", |> This is one of the earliest and crudest of his plays, and, in the main, is an adaptation of the 'Menaechmi' of Plautus.<| Nonetheless it is a rather madcap comedy of mistaken identities, and despite the overhanging threat of execution that hangs over one of the characters, playgoers found themselves chuckling at the staged absurdities. Audiences still find the story a comic farce, well worth the watching. It's a lovely, petite book, measuring approximately 4" x 5 3/8", bound in dark burgundy cloth with top edge gilt. The front cover has Shakespeare's family heraldic crest stamped in blind; the spine has the title in gilt. The fore- and bottom text-block edges are rough trimmed. Inside, the end-papers, front and back, have Shakespeare's heraldic crest printed in black and yellow. The half-title announces the series ("The Temple Shakespeare"). The frontispiece is a gravure reproduction in miniature of an old etching of the Grammar School at Stratford Upon Avon. This frontispiece is accompanied by a guard tissue, which has printed on it an elegy for the great Bard by Ben Johnson ("And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek …"). The decorated title page, which is rubricated (printed in red and black), features a central vignette of two smiling head, pointing each to the other. On the verso of the title page is Samuel Coleridge's appreciative assessment of Shakespeare's wit, which starts : "The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakspeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments …". The rest of the book is lightly rubricated throughout with the act and scene numbers rendered in red. The book is bound with a silk place-marker. SERIES : Temple Shakespeare TITLE : Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors AUTHOR : William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) EDITOR, PREFACE, GLOSSARY, NOTES : Israel Gollancz (1864 - 1930) TEXTUAL QUOTES : Ben Johnson & Samuel Coleridge IMPRINT : J. M. Dent PLACE : London (Aldine House W.C.) DATE : August 1902 PRINTER : Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. EDITION : Reprint, 7th Temple Edition (So stated - one may presume these to be printings) STATUS : This edition OP DETAILS : Petite semi-flexible hardcover; has decorated end-papers, sepia gravure frontispiece with printed tissue guard; decorated title page, rubricated, as are the act and scene designations through the text; has a Preface, a Glossary, and Notes. [xii] + [147] pages; 4" x 5 1/4"; dark burgundy (or maroon) cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine and heraldic emblem blind-stamped on front cover. Top edge gilt, fore-and bottom edges rough-trimmed. Bound with silk place-marker. CONDITION — VERY GOOD — This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR -- Gilt lettering on spine is bright; top edge gilt is slightly rubbed but basically fairly bright; the cover has some transparent water staining (of no great effect); else the cover has strong color and only softly bumped corner tips. BINDING -- The leaves have been separated, sometimes with a bit of less care; the whole is pretty solid with no detached or loose leaves. INTERIOR -- There are a few small 'tea' stains , and some of the leaves are toned; frontispiece and guard tissue are toned - else clean and presentable with no marking, no writing and no signatures.…

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