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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.…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding lightly cracked along pages 7 and 8 but holding. covers have very light wear. fore-edge, head and foot of book have very light wear.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condizione: Bien. Condizione sovraccoperta: Bien. Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Books: Peter Galassi on 'Photography: A Concise History,'" by Peter Galassi; "David True's 'Pendulums,'" by John Yau; "William Eggleston's Color Photographs: Matters of Record"; "Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima: The Shadow in the Time Machine," by Mark Holborn; "Statuary Versus Idols," by Alain Kirili; "Escher or Newman: Who Puts the Ghosts in the Machine?" by Gary Stephan; "Bracusi + Mondrian: A Sum, a Summa," by Sidney Geist. Reviews by Lisa Liebmann, Thomas Lawson, Ronny H. Cohen, Barbara Kruger, Richard Armstrong, Glenn O'Brien, Donald Kuspit, Charles Hagen, Kate Linker, Jeanne Silverthorne, John Howell, Edit deAk, Judith Russi Kirshner, Hal Fischer, Christopher Knight, Susan C. Larsen, Stuart Morgan, Paul Groot, Annelie Pohlen, and Ida Panicelli. Cover: William Eggleston. …

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condizione: Bien. Condizione sovraccoperta: Bien. Essays "Books: Peter Galassi on 'Photography: A Concise History,'" by Peter Galassi; "David True's 'Pendulums,'" by John Yau; "William Eggleston's Color Photographs: Matters of Record"; "Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima: The Shadow in the Time Machine," by Mark Holborn; "Statuary Versus Idols," by Alain Kirili; "Escher or Newman: Who Puts the Ghosts in the Machine?" by Gary Stephan; "Bracusi + Mondrian: A Sum, a Summa," by Sidney Geist. Reviews by Lisa Liebmann, Thomas Lawson, Ronny H. Cohen, Barbara Kruger, Richard Armstrong, Glenn O'Brien, Donald Kuspit, Charles Hagen, Kate Linker, Jeanne Silverthorne, John Howell, Edit deAk, Judith Russi Kirshner, Hal Fischer, Christopher Knight, Susan C. Larsen, Stuart Morgan, Paul Groot, Annelie Pohlen, and Ida Panicelli. Cover: William Eggleston. …