A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public is to assert that it is true, and then add that Truth is stranger than Fiction. I do not know if the yarn I am anxious for you to read is true; but the Spanish purser of the fruit steamer El Carrero swore to me by the shrine of Santa Guadalupe that he had the facts from the U. S. vice-consul at La Paz-a person who could not possibly have been cognizant of half of them.As for the adage quoted above, I take pleasure in puncturing it by affirming that I read in a purely ...
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A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public is to assert that it is true, and then add that Truth is stranger than Fiction. I do not know if the yarn I am anxious for you to read is true; but the Spanish purser of the fruit steamer El Carrero swore to me by the shrine of Santa Guadalupe that he had the facts from the U. S. vice-consul at La Paz-a person who could not possibly have been cognizant of half of them.As for the adage quoted above, I take pleasure in puncturing it by affirming that I read in a purely fictional story the other day the line: "'Be it so, ' said the policeman." Nothing so strange has yet cropped out in Truth
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Good. Gently used HC, no DJ, light shelf-wear, spine cracking along inner hinge, ex libris sticker on inner cover, binding clean and tight, free of markings, light age-tanning.
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Fair. Fair hardcover, no dustcover. Book is bound in red half leather. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbings/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Hinges cracked but binding still intact. Front end paper is loose. Top page ends are gold gilt. Front page ends have a coffee stain.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 314 pages; Dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine. The upper and lower edges of spine are rubbed and lightly bumped. The spine is straight and binding tight. The pages are clean, but lightly aged. Photo of O. Henry at Ashville is loose, but in correct position.
