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Best of Archy and Mehitabel

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Description for Best of Archy and Mehitabel Hardcover. A poet in a former life, Archy has been reincarnated as a cockroach who types by diving headfirst onto a typewriter (and is famously unable to operate the shift key to produce capital letters); his side-kick Mehitabel is an alley cat who claims to have once been Cleopatra. Num Pages: 300 pages, yes. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 96 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
A poet in a former life, Archy has been reincarnated as a cockroach who types by diving headfirst onto a typewriter (and is famously unable to operate the shift key to produce capital letters); his side-kick Mehitabel is an alley cat who claims to have once been Cleopatra. Archy's poems irresistibly evoke Jazz Age New York - as seen from the alley; funny, wise, tender and tough, they represent the very best of American humour. Including George Herriman's whimsical illustrations and a classic introduction by novelist E.B. White, this Pocket Poet selection will make a beautiful volume, perfectly sized for ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841597911
SKU
V9781841597911
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About Don Marquis
Don Marquis (1878-1937) worked as a journalist in New York from 1909. In 1912 he launched his legendary column 'The Sun Dial' in the New York Evening Sun and four years later the Archy and Mehitabel poems began to appear, eventually collected into three volumes.

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