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Gelett Burgess: Are You a Bromide?
Author
Gelett Burgess  (1866–1951)  wikidata:Q15998059 s:en:Author:Frank Gelett Burgess q:en:Gelett Burgess
 
Gelett Burgess
Alternative names
pseudonym: Alan Braghampton; Frank Gelett Burgess
Description American novelist, poet, writer, humorist, satirist and short story writer
Date of birth/death 30 January 1866 Edit this at Wikidata 18 September 1951 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Boston Edit this at Wikidata Carmel-by-the-Sea Edit this at Wikidata
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author QS:P50,Q15998059
Title
Are You a Bromide?
Edition 1st edition
Publisher
B. W. Huebsch
Description
English: Front dust jacket of the 1906 first edition of Gelett Burgess' Are You a Bromide?. The word "blurb" was coined by Burgess, in attributing the jacket of his book to a "Miss Belinda Blurb" depicted "in the act of blurbing"
Depicted part dust jacket
Publication date October 1906
institution QS:P195,Q131454
Current location
Portfolio 242, Folder 36
Place of publication New York
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