Data di pubblicazione: 1893
Da: Zamboni & Huntington, Bangor, ME, U.S.A.
Original boards. Condizione: Good. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. 8 1/4 x 6 3/4". [4]ff. (including frontispiece), 151pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Original floral boards, parchment back, some wear at edges, backstrip darkened. Light foxing. Collated and complete. FIRST EDITION. Good, sound copy. Turner, A Bibliography of the Works of F. Anstey [Thomas Anstey Guthrie], 16. Contents: "The man from Blankley's"; "One side of the canvass"; "The other side of the canvass"; "On the threshold of Themis"; "Boat-Race day"; "Preserved Venice"; "At a vegetarian restaurant"; "At a hypnotic seance"; "Wrestling with Whistlers"; "Dilatory dinners"; "Matinee mania"; "More 'pot-pourri' from the park"; "The automatic physiognomist"; "'Hair-cutting, singeing, and shampooing'"; "The menagerie race"; "Before the mechanical models"; "At the Wild West"; "Telephonic theatre-goers"; "Art in the City"; "At the confectioner's"; and "Choosing Christmas toys." Humorous dialogues.