Hear the Lions Roar
by Stokes, Sewell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Closed to tear to spine head cloth, now neatly closed with archival glue; minor foxing to edges; faint damp stain to top edge; b
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
London: H. Shaylor, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Closed to tear to spine head cloth, now neatly closed with archival glue; minor foxing to edges; faint damp stain to top edge; binding slightly rolled; else tight and clean within. Octavo in red cloth spine and handsomely mottled cloth boards; 334 pages; 19 cm. Author inscription to one "W R L" , and dated in year of publication. Biographical sketches of 27 persons, including George Moore, Lady Astor, Noel Coward, Aldous Huxley, Anita Loos, Alfred Hitchcock, Elinor Glyn, Dame Laura Knight, A A Milne, George Bernard Shaw, and many others; and organized around the metaphor of a circus and its animals. ¶ "Francis Martin Sewell Stokes (1902-1979) was an English novelist, biographer, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and prison visitor. He collaborated on a number of occasions with his brother, Leslie Stokes, an actor and later in life a BBC radio producer, with whom he shared a flat for many years overlooking the British Museum."-Wikipedia ¶ Collective biographies. Personality sketches, Humor,
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101455
- Title
- Hear the Lions Roar
- Author
- Stokes, Sewell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Closed to tear to spine head cloth, now neatly closed with archival glue; minor foxing to edges; faint damp stain to top edge; b
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- H. Shaylor
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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About Bibliope by Calvello Books
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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