Phoenix john introduction kendrick bangs (2 risultati)

Hard Cover/Stitched. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Text/Bright & clean w/one folded corner. Illustrated (prospector pushing a reluctant burro) mustard linen boards/VG, showing backstrap discoloration. DJ/None. PO name to fEP. First published 1856; this is the printing of 1903. Humorous narratives of John Phoenix, psuedonym of Army topographical engineer Lt. George Horatio Derby (1823-1861) of Massachusetts, West Point 1846. He spent seveyn years in California, leading three exploring expeditions, and, became one of the state's first humorists. This volume contains Derby's pieces as "Professor John Phoenixiana", making light of a vast range of subject matter including military surveyors and explorers and army life, contemporary travel accounts, literary societies & women's clubs and the like. A treasury of American humor illustrated with pen & ink drawing of political cartoonist of Edward Winsor Kemble (1861 - 1933) who was commissioned by Mark Twain to illustrate the original edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Strong copy. E.W. Kemble (Illustrator) (illustratore).…

332pp. + ads illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Bolton says 15 full page & 25 text line illus BAL 762: 1st edition thus, with introduction by John Kendrick Bangs Spine darkened, covers soiled, spine ends chipped, Good+ to VG-/no dj.