THE FIRING LINE
by Chambers, Robert W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in red cloth covered boards with white lettering on cover. White on spine mostly rubbed off, lower corner of text blo
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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Synopsis
"It's really very classical," he said, "like the voyage of Ulysses; I, Ulysses, you the water nymph Calypso, drifting in that golden ship of Romance—""Calypso was a land nymph," she observed, absently, "if accuracy interests you as much as your monologue."Checked and surprised, he began to laugh at his own discomfiture; and she, elbow on the gunwale, small hand cupping her chin, watched him with an expressionless directness that very soon extinguished his amusement and left him awkward in the silence."I've tried my very best to be civil and agreeable," he said after a moment. “Is it really such an effort for you to talk to a man?"“Not if I am interested,” she said quietly.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8021
- Title
- THE FIRING LINE
- Author
- Chambers, Robert W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in red cloth covered boards with white lettering on cover. White on spine mostly rubbed off, lower corner of text blo
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Appleton,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1908,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage books and paperbacks;
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