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Title: The Cop and the Anthem

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Title: The Cop and the Anthem Title Record # 1373411
Author: O. Henry
Date: 1904-12-04
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published in the December 4th, 1904 edition of the (New York) Sunday World.
Synopsis: A vagrant is trying to get arrested for a petty crime so he'll be sentenced to a few months in jail during the winter to get off the streets. But he repeatedly fails to attract police attention. Then he hears a hymn coming from a church, which reminds him of better times and lost ideals, and he decides to get a job instead.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1970 1970-04-00 ed. Editors of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Davis Publications  
$0.60?$: US dollar
 
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag  
Angels and Awakenings 1980-00-00 ed. M. Cameron Grey Doubleday 0-385-15311-2
$15.95?$: US dollar
xxii+
403
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Fra Angelico  
Angels and Awakenings 1994-11-00 ed. M. Cameron Grey Doubleday 0-385-15311-2
$20.00?$: US dollar
xxii+
403
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Fra Angelico Checkmark
101 Stories 2002-00-00 O. Henry The Folio Society     xvi+
651
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Rod Waters Checkmark
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