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Title: The Dime School Speaker: Comprising: I. --the Popular and Dramatic Orator. II. --the Sabbath School Orator. Drawn Chiefly from Utterances of Our Most Popular Speakers, Writers and Thinkers
Description: New York, Beadle and Adams, 1870. Paperback. 16mo. Orange pictorial wrappers. viii, 96pp, (4pp ads). Good plus. Minor edgewear, especially along string-tied spine, but overall very attractive and quite "handleable"; usual minor age toning. Interesting, eclectic collection of brief stage pieces. Number 13 in B & A's "Speaker Series," containing speechifying from the likes of Carl Schurz, Henry Ward Beecher, Bret Harte, Edward Everett and assorted other windbags of the period. Decent copy of a "penny dreadful" difficult to find in acceptable condition. .

Keywords: DIME NOVELS; BEADLE AND ADAMS Drama


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