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The collector's whatnot : a compendium, manual, and syllabus of information and advice on all subjects appertaining to the collection of antiques, both ancient and not so ancient

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The collector's whatnot : a compendium, manual, and syllabus of information and advice on all subjects appertaining to the collection of antiques, both ancient and not so ancient

by Hugh MacNair Kahler, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, Booth Tarkington

EN·~2 hours·9 chapters

Chapters

9 total

PREFACE

11:34

LIST OF PLATES AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

0:05

ANTIQUEING AHEAD

29:30

HINTS FOR BUYING FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES

7:39

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

22:32

OLD RUGS, OLD IRON OLD BRASS, OLD GLASS

16:28

THE EUROPEAN FIELD

37:32

HORSECHESTNUT

19:07

A WORD ON POONING

16:03

Description

Written under pseudonyms by Booth Tarkington, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, and Hugh MacNair Kahler.

Details

Language

Duration

~2 hours (154K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923.

Credits

Emmanuel Ackerman, Quentin Campbell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Release date

2023-04-19

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Antiques -- Humor

About the authors

Hugh MacNair Kahler

1883–1969

A prolific magazine storyteller of the early 20th century, he published widely in popular American periodicals and also wrote fiction under the pen name Blair Hall. Several of his stories reached the screen during the silent-film era, giving his work a second life beyond the page.

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Kenneth Lewis Roberts

1885–1957

Best known for sweeping historical adventures set in early America, this Maine-born writer brought the past to life with brisk storytelling and a reporter’s eye for detail. His novels won a wide audience, and Northwest Passage earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1938.

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Booth Tarkington

1869–1946

Best known for warm, sharp-eyed novels of Midwestern life, this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner captured both the comforts and the blind spots of small-town America. His stories, including The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, and the Penrod books, were hugely popular in the early 20th century and still feel lively today.

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