Excerpt: ...work up in the air. He had walked around to the choir school, but no one was there that morning, not a sound came from the inside. Then he had started down across the park. As he sat down to count his money, a man who had climbed up the hillside stopped and asked him a great many questions: who taught him music and whether any one had ever heard him sing. This stranger also liked music and he also went to the cathedral, so he claimed. From that point the story wound its way onward across the busy hours till ...
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Excerpt: ...work up in the air. He had walked around to the choir school, but no one was there that morning, not a sound came from the inside. Then he had started down across the park. As he sat down to count his money, a man who had climbed up the hillside stopped and asked him a great many questions: who taught him music and whether any one had ever heard him sing. This stranger also liked music and he also went to the cathedral, so he claimed. From that point the story wound its way onward across the busy hours till nightfall. It was a child's story, not an older person's. Therefore it did not draw the line between pleasant and unpleasant, fair and unfair, right and wrong, which make up for each of us the history of 74 our checkered human day. It separated life as a swimmer separates the sea: there is one water which he parts by his passage. So the child, who is still wholly a child, divides the world. But as she pondered, she discriminated. Out of the long, rambling narrative she laid hold of one overwhelming incident, forgetting the rest: a passing stranger, hearing a few notes of his voice, had stopped to question him about it. To her this was the first outside evidence that her faith in his musical gift was not groundless. When he had ended his story she regarded him across the table with something new in her eyes
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Add this copy of A Cathedral Singer to cart. $5.62, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Add this copy of A Cathedral Singer to cart. $5.62, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Add this copy of A Cathedral Singer to cart. $6.43, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2013 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Add this copy of A Cathedral Singer to cart. $11.95, very good condition, Sold by Finger Lakes Cottage Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by Century Co..
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frontispiece by Sigismond De Ivanowski. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Possible first edition, Century, 1916. NOT exlibrary! Previous owner's name crossed out on front end page, no other markings inside or out. Tight binding. Very Good boards, slightly cocked. No DJ. See our photo.
Add this copy of A Cathedral Singer to cart. $15.00, good condition, Sold by Auldfarran Books, IOBA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Decatur, GA, UNITED STATES, published by New York: The Century Co..
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142pp. frontis. decorated green cloth 12mo: near Very Good in an age darkened & foxed dj w/some old dampstain outlines, now protected in a Brodart poly cover. A late work by the prolific Kentucky novelist Allen (1849-1925).
Add this copy of A Cathedral Singer to cart. $15.07, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2011 by Tredition Classics.
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Add this copy of A Cathedral Singer to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Pellbooks, Inc. rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pelham, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by The Century Col.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. In Very Good condition with Good thick illustrated original paperdustjacket. First Edition. 142 pages; with lovely tissue-guarded frontispiece by Sigismond de Ivanowski; Kentucky's most graceful word-smith of late 19th and the early 20th Century; In original green cloth Hardcover ebossed with illustration and gilt lettering. An exquisite stroy backgrounded by the great cathedral of St. John the Divine on Morningside Heights in New York City.
Add this copy of A Cathedral Singer to cart. $20.04, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2019 by Outlook Verlag.
