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From "Cheerful -- By Request": The editor paid for the lunch (as editors do). He lighted his seventh cigarette and leaned back. The conversation, which had zigzagged from the war to Zuloaga, and from Rasputin the Monk to the number of miles a Darrow would go on a gallon, narrowed down to the thin, straight line of business. "Now don't misunderstand. Please! We're not presuming to dictate. Dear me, no! We have always felt that the writer should be free to express that which is in his -- ah -- heart. But in the last year we've been swamped with these drab, realistic stories. Strong, relentless things, you know, about dishwashers, with a lot of fine detail about the fuzz of grease on the rim of the pan. And then those drear and hopeless ones about fallen sisters who end it all in the East River. The East River must be choked up with 'em. Now, I know that life is real, life is earnest, and I'm not demanding a happy ending, exactly. But if you could -- that is -- would you -- do you see your way at all clear to giving us a fairly cheerful story? Not necessarily Glad, but not so darned Russian, if you get me. Not pink, but not all grey either. Say -- mauve. . . ." That was Josie Fifer's existence. Mostly grey, with a dash of pink. Which makes mauve. . . . Also included in this volume are "The Gay Old Dog," "The Tough Guy," "The Eldest," "That's Marriage," "The Woman Who Tried to Be Good," "The Girl Who Went Right," "The Hooker-Up-the-Back," "The Guiding Miss Gowd," "Sophy-as-She-Might-Have-Been," "The Three of Them," and "Shore Leave."
 
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September 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1434488691Title: Cheerful -- By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4344-8869-1 / 978-1-4344-8869-5
Publisher: Wildside Press
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July 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0548258988Title: Cheerful, By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 0-548-25898-8 / 978-0-548-25898-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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April 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1428055118Title: Cheerful--By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4280-5511-8 / 978-1-4280-5511-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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November 2005 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1421929686Title: Cheerful--By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4219-2968-6 / 978-1-4219-2968-2 (USA edition)
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September 2004 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1414294565Title: Cheerful, by Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4142-9456-5 / 978-1-4142-9456-8 (USA edition)
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July 2004 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0809587866Title: Cheerful -- By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 0-8095-8786-6 / 978-0-8095-8786-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Wildside Press
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June 1978 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0836940091Title: Cheerful by Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 0-8369-4009-1 / 978-0-8369-4009-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
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1922 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000HM5MDQTitle: Cheerful By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
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1919 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000OTKGEMTitle: Cheerful By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
Publisher: Doubleday, Page
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Paperback Editions

July 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1409793265Title: Cheerful, by Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4097-9326-5 / 978-1-4097-9326-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Unknown
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January 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1406864803Title: Cheerful--By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4068-6480-3 / 978-1-4068-6480-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Echo Library
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October 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1426447116Title: Cheerful-By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4264-4711-6 / 978-1-4264-4711-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Biblio Bazaar
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September 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1434488683Title: Cheerful -- By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4344-8868-3 / 978-1-4344-8868-8
Publisher: Wildside Press
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September 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1406781126Title: Cheerful, by Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4067-8112-6 / 978-1-4067-8112-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Unknown
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June 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1432662740Title: Cheerful, by Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4326-6274-0 / 978-1-4326-6274-5
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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April 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1428055150Title: Cheerful--By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4280-5515-0 / 978-1-4280-5515-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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November 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1426446802Title: CheerfulBy Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4264-4680-2 / 978-1-4264-4680-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
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February 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1598187805Title: Cheerful -- By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-59818-780-5 / 9781598187809 (USA edition)
Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books
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November 2005 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1421929694Title: Cheerful--By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4219-2969-4 / 978-1-4219-2969-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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September 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1414294573Title: Cheerful--By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4142-9457-3 / 978-1-4142-9457-5 (USA edition)
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April 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1417909773Title: Cheerful by Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-4179-0977-3 / 978-1-4179-0977-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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Audio Editions

January 1995 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 1556853688Title: Cheerful By Request
Author(s): Edna Ferber
ISBN: 1-55685-368-8 / 9781556853685 (USA edition)
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Other Editions

March 2004 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B000JML3YQTitle: CheerfulBy Request
Author(s): Edna, 1885-1968 Ferber
Publisher: Public Domain Books
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1918 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B00086AZ6ATitle: Cheerful,: By request,
Author(s): Edna Ferber
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
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