Book Excerpt: nment wants to be economical, so they've cut down the number of trains, to say nothing about the victuals; and they's two or three times as many people traveling, because they can't throw their money away fast enough at home. So the result is that the wise guys keeps an eye on their watch and when it's about twenty minutes to dinner time they race to the diner and park against the door and get quick action; and after they've eat the first time they go out and stand in the vestibule and wait till it's their ...
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Book Excerpt: nment wants to be economical, so they've cut down the number of trains, to say nothing about the victuals; and they's two or three times as many people traveling, because they can't throw their money away fast enough at home. So the result is that the wise guys keeps an eye on their watch and when it's about twenty minutes to dinner time they race to the diner and park against the door and get quick action; and after they've eat the first time they go out and stand in the vestibule and wait till it's their turn again, as one Federal meal don't do nothing to your appetite only whet it, you might say.Well, anyway, I was playing the old rules and by the time I and the two gals started for the diner we run up against the outskirts of a crowd pretty near as big as the ones that waits outside restaurant windows to watch a pancake turn turtle. About eight o'clock we got to where we could see the wealthy dining car conductor in the distance, but it was only about once every quarter of an hour that he raised aRead More
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Add this copy of The Big Town to cart. $9.00, very good condition, Sold by John Thompson rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Winnipeg, MB, CANADA, published 1949 by Bantam 466.
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Cute Lardner novel originally pub. in 1921. Illus. by Van Kaufman. Scrape to the back edge of the cover. Fragile with the usual browning to the paper. About vg.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Turquoise cloth boards have slight rubbing at corners and tips, spinecover lightly sunned. Uncut pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Very Good. Later. Very good plusPrevious owner's stamp on front inside panel, nice clean but yellowed text, cloth covers are decorative and gold stamped with rubbed corners and spine edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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