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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with dark blue lettering on front cover and spine. Illustration in dark blue ink on front cover shows John Bull, Jr. looking down and particularly distressed at a "French Grammar" book lying on the floor. 5" x 6 1/4." 172 pages, complete. Pages are clean and intact overall but are slightly shaken and have light age toning, occasional smudges, and slight bumping to fore-edges. Covers are clean and intact overall but have darkening, light soiling, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is another installment in the John Bull series by Leon Paul Blouet (1847-1903), a French author and journalist who wrote under the pen name, Max O'Rell. In the series, O'Rell writes through the character of John Bull (and in this book, the English schoolboy, John Bull, Jr.) to illustrate his real-life observations of British culture and politics through humorous anecdotes. O'Rell was born in Avranches, a small town near the border of Brittany, France but moved to London amid the instability of the Franco-Prussian War. Throughout his life and career, he considered himself to be a mediator between France, England, and the United States. Among the many subjects addressed in John Bull, Jr., O'Rell writes about the stereotypes of English and French people, life and customs of English schoolboys and English school culture, language barriers between English and French cultures, the French language, and origins of Anglomania and Anglophobia.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free end paper and dated Aug. 28, 1888. 172 pages + adverts. Original cover worn and chipped, lower corner of rear cover missing. Contents good and tight; last few pages with light water stain to bottom corner. A fair to good copy signed by the author. Size: 12mo. Book.…

Stiff wrapper. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. Stiff paper covers. Covers have wear to the outer corners. Front cover has a vertical crease at each edge and surface loss adjacent to the upper outer corner. Rear cover has a slight crease to the lower outer corner and a tiny chip to the upper edge. Slight wear to top spine end. Owner's ink stamped name and written date on the front free endpaper. …