| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
817 Thu |
| Item number |
14 |
| 090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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2606 |
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2606 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
817 Thu |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Thurber, James frey50 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Lanterns & Lances |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
James Thurber |
| 246 ## - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Lanterns and lances |
| 260 00 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harper & Brothers Publishers |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1961 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
215 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- How to get through the day -- Midnight at Tim's place -- The darlings at the top of the stairs -- The porcupines in the artichokes -- The spreading "you know" -- Magical lady -- Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ear muffs -- The last clock -- Such a phrase as drifts through dreams -- A moment with Mandy -- The tyranny of trivia -- The wings of Henry James -- Hark the Herald Tribune, Times and all the other angels sing -- The new vocabularianism -- The saving grace -- Come across with the facts -- The case for comedy -- Here come the dolphins -- Conversation piece: Connecticut -- How the kooks crumble -- The watchers of the night -- My senegalese birds and siamese cats -- The trouble with man is man -- The duchess and the bugs. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Contains 24 pieces in which the well-known humorist is largely concerned with the survival of our English language, currently being subjected to much erroneous use. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Wit and humor |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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AJML |
| Koha item type |
800 - 899 |
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817 Thu |
| 961 WL - |
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14 |