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The Library of Oratory Ancient and Modern with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists 15 Volumes

By: Depew, Chauncey M.

Price: $164.16

Publisher: New York / Chicago, E.R. Du Mont: 1902

Seller ID: 109043

ISBN: B000MFNTME

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Refurbished by Edward F. Gruver Co. Book Binder, Washington, DC. Binding completely wrapped in dark red faux leather with gold spinal decor. Red marbled hinges professionally reinforced with red cloth tape. Top page end gold gilt rubbed off.
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Lifetime of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use

By: Hubbard, Elbert

Price: $22.80

Publisher: New York, NY, Wm. H. Wise & Co.: 1928

Seller ID: 125532

ISBN: B00005VRQ0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 228 pages.
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The Constellation: or, A Selection of Eloquent and Interesting Passages, chiefly intended to Form and Improve the Taste of Youth

By: Johnson, Samuel; Edmund Burke; Et Al.)

Price: $91.20

Publisher: Edinburgh, UK, Printed by Andrew Balfour: 1815

Seller ID: 98581

ISBN: B00G5KW5PM

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good

Brown leather spine and board tips, marble paper boards. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 276 pages. 'Almost all the collections, however, that we have seen, are nearly altogether, if not wholly, composed of those effusions of genius which adorned an earlier period of the literary history of our country. It has, on this account, been the object of the Editors of the Constellation, almost exclusively; to confine this Selection to passages from more recent writers, and to give the young reader, for whose use it is chiefly intended, such specimens of eloquent or interesting extracts, as...
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Orators of America Part I (The World's Orators) Volume 8

By: Lee, Guy Carleton

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1902

Seller ID: 117559

ISBN: xxxxxxxxx7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. 336 pages.
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Orators of America Part III (The World's Orators) Volume 10

By: Lee, Guy Carleton (Editor); Horatio Collins King (Collaborator)

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1902

Seller ID: 117561

ISBN: B001C1ETNK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Title page reinforced with tape. 351 pages.
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Orators of Ancient Rome: The World's Orators Volume 2

By: Lee, Guy Carleton (editor-in-chief)

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1901

Seller ID: 117563

ISBN: B00LNPA7TA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Moderate general wear. Front board stained. 312 pages.
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Bulls, Ancient, and Modern

By: Percy, J.C.

Price: $27.31

Publisher: Dublin / London, Mecredy, Percy & Co.: 1912

Seller ID: 99084

ISBN: B003L6XW6Y

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth, gold lettering. Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Cloth lightly frayed at spine ends. Hinges good, no foxing. Previous owner name. 147 pages. A collection of notable Irish and English bulls. Bull: A self-contradictory proposition; in modern use, an expression containing a manifest contradiction in terms and involving a ludicrous inconsistency, unperceived by the speaker.
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