An edition of Half-a-hundred (1945)

Half-a-hundred

tales by great American writers

1st ed.

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An edition of Half-a-hundred (1945)

Half-a-hundred

tales by great American writers

1st ed.

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English
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530

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Cover of: Half-a-hundred
Half-a-hundred: tales by great American writers
1945, The Blakiston Company
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Half-a-hundred
Half-a-hundred: tales by great American writers
1945, The Blakiston Company
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

Mr. Arcularis -- Conrad Aiken
Justice -- Louis Bromfield
Baby in the icebox, The -- James M. Cain
Single purpose of Leon Burrows -- John Cheever
Coroner's inquest -- Marc Connelly
Farewell to Cuba -- James Gould Cozzens
Old Bill -- J. Frank Dobie
Two soldiers -- William Faulkner
Place to lay one's head, A -- Waldo Frank
House of three candles, The -- Erle Stanley Gardner
Fame for Mr. Beatty -- James Norman Hall
Nightshade -- Dashiell Hammett
Weight of command -- Ernest Haycox
Crime without passion -- Ben Hecht
Capital of the world, The -- Ernest Hemingway
Triall by armes -- Joseph Hergesheimer
To the mountains -- Paul Horgan
Opinion on West Eden, An -- Cyril Hume
Twenty horses -- Nunnally Johnson
Whear ha'ye ben, my laddie? -- MacKinlay Kantor
Knock on a door -- Rufus King
Day of pleasure, A -- Manuel Komroff
Empress' Yankee, The -- Harold Lamb
Cape Horn pilot -- Jacland Marmur
You can't do that -- John P. Marquand
Girl in the grave, The -- Horace McCoy
Deckers on the coast -- William McFee
Cowboy sang soprano, The -- George Milburn
Continuity -- Christopher Morley
Lieutenant, The -- John O'Hara
Pipe, The -- S.J. Perelman
Captain Waskow -- Ernie Pyle
Hanging acrobat, The -- Ellery Queen
Price of the head, The -- John Russell
Dear Baby -- William Saroyan
Squadron leader
Robert L. Scott, Jr., Horace S. Mazet --
Faith at sea -- Irwin Shaw
Life of Riley, The -- Richard Sherman
Extra! Extra! -- Robert E. Sherwood
Body of the crime, The -- Wilbur Daniel Steele
Over the hill -- John Steinbeck
Secret of success, The -- Donald Ogden Stewart
Bullets -- T.S. Stribling
Juggler, The -- Arthur Stringer
Another April -- Jesse Stuart
Black magic of Barney Haller, The -- James Thurber
Swirling sky -- Jim Tully
Warship -- Thornton Wilder
Fingernail, The -- Cornell Woolrich
Almos' a man -- Richard Wright.

Edition Notes

"First edition."

Copyright date from verso of t.p.

Illustrated t.p.

Published in
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Other Titles
Tales by great American writers

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.01
Library of Congress
PZ1.G794 Hal, PS647.S5 F45

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 530 p. ;
Number of pages
530

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24701709M
Internet Archive
halfahundredtale00gray
LCCN
45005278
OCLC/WorldCat
32950899

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