Irvin Cobb, His Book
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Irvin Cobb, His Book: Friendly Tributes upon the Occasion of a Dinner Tendered to Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April Twenty-Fifth, MCMXV by Various. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #59139.
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