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Alexander Woollcott (1887–1943)

Author of While Rome Burns

Includes the names: Alexander Wolcott, Alexander Woolcott, Alexander Woolcott, Alexander Wollcott, Alexander Woollcott, Woollcott Alexander, Alexander W3 Woollcott, Alexander ed. Woolcott, Editor Alexander Woolcott, Editor Woollcott Alexander ... (see complete list), Editor Alexander Woollcott, Sergeant Alexander Woollcott, Edited By Alexander Woollcott, Illustrated by Hirschfeld Alexander Woolcott, Illustrated by Hirschfeld Alexander Woollcott, Alexander / Beatrice Kaufman & Joseph Hennesse (editors) Woolcott

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Works by Alexander Woollcott

While Rome Burns 167 copies, 2 reviews
Long, Long Ago 94 copies
The Woollcott reader; bypaths in the realms of gold 63 copies
As You Were 52 copies, 1 review
The letters of Alexander Woollcott 50 copies
The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories (Contributor) 44 copies
The Portable Woollcott 40 copies
Woolcott's Second Reader 29 copies
Mr. Dickens goes to the play 7 copies
Verdun Belle 6 copies
Verdun Belle, and some others 4 copies
The command is forward 4 copies
Enchanted Aisles 3 copies
Moonlight sonata [short story] 3 copies

A New Jersey Reader 3 copies

The Dark Tower: A Melodrama 3 copies

Chateau Thierry: A friendly guide for American pilgrims to the shrines… 2 copies

Going to pieces 2 copies

Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on the Stage 2 copies

Entrance Fee 2 copies

The story of Irving Berlin 1 copy

The Woollcott reader, bypaths in the realms of gold 1 copy

Full Fathom Five 1 copy

LONG LONG AGO: Get Down You Fool; Miss Kitty Takes to the Road; Required… 1 copy

Shouts and murmurs; echoes of a thousand and one first nights, 1 copy

The Archer-Shee Case (in Law in Action & in Great True/Crime, Mys &… 1 copy

The Indispensable Woollcott 1 copy

Twenty Years After, the Town Crier Broadcast of April 6, 1937, as heard on… 1 copy

Young man of Caracas 1 copy

"The Mystery of the Hansom Cab" (in Portable Murder Book) 1 copy

THIS IS WOOLLCOTT SPEAKING 1 copy

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Also by Alexander Woollcott

The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Introduction, some editions) 3,384 copies, 25 reviews
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Contributor) 596 copies, 5 reviews
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass / The Hunting… (Introduction, some editions) 383 copies, 3 reviews
Charles Dickens (Foreword) 228 copies, 2 reviews
Men At War (Contributor) 214 copies
Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child as Seen Through the Critics'… (Contributor) 101 copies, 2 reviews
The Moonstone and The Woman in White (Foreword, some editions) 97 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (Contributor) 96 copies, 4 reviews
The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin… (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review
The Big Book of Adventure Stories (Vintage Original) (Contributor) 71 copies, 2 reviews
Bar the Doors (Contributor) 60 copies, 1 review
The Murderer's Companion (Foreword, some editions) 36 copies
A Doctor of the Old School (Foreword, some editions) 24 copies
Tales of Terror and Suspense (Contributor) 17 copies

Monster Festival: Classic Tales of the Macabre (Contributor) 12 copies

Nonsenseorship (Contributor) 11 copies

Bachelor's Quarters: Stories from Two Worlds (Contributor) 7 copies

Thin air: an anthology of ghost stories (Contributor) 6 copies

Thrillers, Chillers & Killers (Contributor) 4 copies

Horror Stories {audiobook} (Contributor) 4 copies

Murder won't out (Foreword) 3 copies

A gathering of ghosts : a treasury: Field [and others] (Contributor) 2 copies

The Dark Tower and Merrily We Roll Along 1 copy

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Woollcott, Alexander Humphreys

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Phalanx, New Jersey, USA

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New York, New York, USA

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Red Bank, New Jersey, USA

New York, New York, USA

Neshobe Island, Vermont, USA

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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Hamilton College

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