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More silver pennies blanche jennings thompson vintage. Silver pennies by blanche jennings thompson 1930 antique poetry book this is an exquisite book collection of poetry for boys and girls and adults. B002p5sgi6 5th printing 1942 macmillan hardcover with dust jacket. The book, with its silver cover, was an anthology that combined two volumes of poems, both of which were edited by blanche jennings thompson. It is a plain cover library binding, it does not have that original blue cover with the silver moon and the silver pennies falling from the sky into a childs hand, but that amazing poetry, is still there, an old friend, tried and true. Patti smith talks fame, youth, and her new memoir, m train.
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