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Six hundred typos and malapropisms collected from Afro-American newspapers, 'When I met him he wore a grey suit and his hair was slicked in a talking mood'; 'There was a congregation of straying lambs'; 'The officers of the church know how to put things over with oiled good honesty'; and an advertisement, 'The Hollis Hotel: Rooms and Transients'. Foreword by the author's husband Octavus Roy Cohen; decorations by Margaret Freeman.

Publisher: Appleton and Company. First American edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: New York
Very good in poor dustwrapper, by Margaret Freeman, missing pieces from the top of the front and rear panel and base of the spine


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