This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...tales of colonial and continental times an old American punch-bowl could tell if it only could and would repeat half that it has heard; what gay drinkingsongs, what stirring patriotic speeches, what sharp legal wit, what sober and circumspect clerical jokes, what kindly eleemosynary plans would echo cheerfully out of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...tales of colonial and continental times an old American punch-bowl could tell if it only could and would repeat half that it has heard; what gay drinkingsongs, what stirring patriotic speeches, what sharp legal wit, what sober and circumspect clerical jokes, what kindly eleemosynary plans would echo cheerfully out of its great sounding bell could it, like the phonograph, give forth what has rung into it in the past! What scenes of rollicking mirth, of dancing feet and dicinggames have been photographed on its insensitive and unchanging glaze! In what scene of cheerfulness and of seriousness alike did not the colonial punch-bowl take its part"? It encouraged the soldier on eve of battle, it bade the sailor God-speed. The heavy Delft bowl stood filled and refilled to the brim at the husking-party, the apple-bee, the wood-spell, the timber-rolling, the muster, the house-raising, the lottery-drawing, the election; while the big India china bowl stood even on the church steps at an ordination or a church dedication. It held the water to christen the baby; it made cheerful the wedding-feast; and even in times of sadness it was not banished, but side by side with the funeral baked meats the omnipresent punch-bowl stood to greet and cheer every sad comer. Indeed, at a funeral the punch-bowl specially shone. Great pains were taken and no expense spared to properly concoct and serve the sombre funeral-punches. "Rum, lemons, a loaf of sugar, and spices," sometimes also "Malligo raisins and rose-water," were items on every reputable and a la mode, as they called it, undertakers' bills. A sober, responsible, and above all, an experienced committee was appointed to carefully mix and flavor the last libation that could ever be offered to the dead ...
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Fair. Shelf wear, corner and edge wear/bumping. Corners worn through. Rubbing along spine, discoloration. Hinges split front and back. Previous owner name and date to FEP. Interior is tanned, no markings found. Year 1892. 429 pages. Oversize/Overweight, No International shipping, No Expedited shipping. Standard shipping only.
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Edition:
1892, Scribners
Hardcover
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Edition:
First Edition
Publisher:
Scribners
Published:
1892
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13209023118
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Very good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, blue cloth. About vg condition. Spine faded, though still legible, slight tear to upper spine end; prev. owner's name on front endpaper. Binding tight, contents clean. 429 pp. numerous illustrations.
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First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. 429 pp. worn hinges. Unmarked Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Good+ No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 429 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine sunned. Corners bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Front hinge starting. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice.
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