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Published by McClure, Phillips & Company
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition; First Printing. Yellow cloth soiled and stained.
Published by Chatto and Windus
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A good condition book. No dust jacket. Some darkening to the spine. A little foxing around the endpapers and textblock edges, and the pages are considerably clearer. A sturdy copy.
Published by Chatto & Windus, 1904
Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Hardcover. Believed 1st. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK. No Inscriptions, hinges tight, l Lacks Dustwrapper, boards lightl.
Published by McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1904
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Top edge gilt. A tight, clean example, no fraying, hinges solid and uncracked, gilt bright, spine toned, a little flecking to cloth. Signature of Walter W. Hooker dated Dec. 25, '05 on front pastedown.
Published by McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1904
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Yellow Cloth, Gilt. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 255 pp. TEG. Contents immaculate, endpapers immaculate except for former owner's name, covers with bright gilt and no fraying but considerable faint discoloration and light foxing, and some lean to spine.
Not Illustrated (illustrator). 2nd. Printing. New York, NY: McClure, Phillips & Company. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. 1904. 2nd. Printing. 12mo., viii, 255 pp. . Very good condition/No Dustjacket.
Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket (picaresque fiction, mystery fiction, San Francisco, Chinatown).
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015
ISBN 10: 1512359343ISBN 13: 9781512359343
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Book Print on Demand
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 366 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.83 inches. This item is printed on demand.
Published by Chatto & Windus, 1904
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st ed. 1st UK edition, in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, & black lettering & illustration on front board; 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Free end papers & catalogue pages browned; text generally clean in tight binding; cloth on spine badly browned, with dull gilt; some discolouration & light staining on boards Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth.
Published by McClure, Phillips & Company, New York, 1903
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good with darkening to yellow cloth especially along spine. Usual age toning to paper Bookplate on front pastedown. Generally good. Satirical novel.
Published by McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904
Seller: Brothertown Books, Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. "Picaroons" by Gelett Burgess and Will Irwin was published collaboratively in 1904 by McClure, Phillips and Company in their Special Editions series. As explained in a prefatory note, a Picaroon is "a petty rascal; one who lives by his wits; an adventurer. The Picaresque Tales in Spanish literature at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century dealt with the fortunes of beggars, imposters, thieves, etc., and chronicled the Romance of Roguery. Such stories were the precursors of the modern novel. This San Francisco Night's Entertainment is an attempt to render similar subjects in essentially modern settings." **************************** Gelett Burgess was a major player in the San Francisco Bay Literary Renaissance of the 1890s. He was publisher of a number of literary magazines which specialized in lampoons and satire. It was Burgess who first wrote about French Modern Art for Americans with an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris". For modern readers he is most likely remembered for his nonsense poem "The Purple Cow" "I never saw a purple cow / I never hope to see one; / But I can tell you, anyhow, / I'd rather see than be one!" This ditty became so widespread and notorious that Burgess wished he had never penned it, saying - in another ditty : "Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow" / I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it; / But I can tell you Anyhow / I'll Kill you if you Quote it!" / Gelett Burgess is also more often remembered - with nostalgia - for his famous creation in verse and cartoon format of "The Goops : "The Goops, they lick their fingers, / and the Goops, they lick their knives; / They spill their broth on the tablecloth, / Oh, they lead disgusting lives! " / Will Irwin was an author and journalist, who is now associated with Muckrakers. Irwin was a local lad, born in Oneida, New York, and then moving with his family to the village of Clayville, located south of Utica on Rte 8; then they moved to Leadville Colorado. Clay . lead . lots of mining activity there . lots of digging, which maybe is why Muckraking, which involved digging of a different sort, was in Irwin's blood. Irwin was also a reporter for the "San Francisco Chronicle", and then for the "New York Sun". His story on the San Francisco Earthquake was read across the nation. When World War I broke out, Irwin traveled to Europe where he was one of the first journalists to report on the use of poison gas by the Germans. He continued to write for newspapers, but also authored a number of books. "The Picaroons" , issued in 1904 as a collaborative effort, and while quite entertaining as a read, is now just about forgotten by the modern world. I warrant some mighty good laughs for its readers. ******************************* CONTENTS: - A MIRACLE AT COFFEE JOHN'S . The Story of the Great Bauer Syndicate // - JAMES WISWELL COFFIN 3d . The Story of the Harvard Freshman // - PROFESSOR VANGO . The Story of the Ex-Medium // - ADMEH DRAKE . The Story of the Hero of Pago Bridge // - THE DIMES OF COFFEE JOHN . The Story of Big Becky // - THE HARVARD FRESHMAN'S ADVENTURE : THE FORTY PANATELAS : The Story of the Returned Klondyker / The Story of the Retired Car-Conductor // - THE EX-MEDIUM'S ADVENTURE : THE INVOLUNTARY SUICIDE . The Story of the Quadroon Woman // - THE HERO'S ADVENTURE: THE MYSTERY OF THE HAMMAM . The Story of the Minor Celebrity / The Story of the Demograph Artist / The Story of the Deserter of the Philippines // - THE WARDS OF FORTUNE *************************** SERIES : Special Edition. / TITLE : The Picaroons. / AUTHORS : Gelett Burgess ( 1866 - 1951 ) ; Will Irwin ( 1873 - 1948 ) / IMPRINT : McClure, Phillips and Company. / PLACE : New York. / DATE : 1904. / EDITION Second Edition [ not stated as such], First Year of Publication. / PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : Trade hardcover; Decorative title page printed with black lettering and orange publisher's device of floral dolphin and anchor; viii + 284 pages; 5 1/4" x 7 1/2", finely ribbed dark blue, cloth-covered boards with elaborate gilt embellishment on spine - lettering on spine also in gilt; title page printed in black and orange; top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed. ***************************** CONDITION - VERY GOOD - A previously owned book which remains clean, solid and attractive, the following noted: EXTERIOR - Spine extremities are moderately compressed; board display moderate rub and a touch of scuff; gilt bright; top edge gilt somewhat rubbed, else fairly bright. / BINDING - Solid . a slight lean to the front. / INTERIOR - Evidence of a minor mend neatly effected to the paper over the top of the hinge on the rear end-paper - else the interior is nice and clean. There is a neatly inked inscription on the front free end-paper : "From your Grandmother's and Great Grandmother's house.".
Hardcover. Condition: Good condition; spine darkened. 1st edition. 255 p.
Hardcover. Condition: Good condition; spine faded. 1st edition. 284 p.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Light corner bumps and general aging. Some pages untrimmed . The book is square and securely bound. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 284 pages; Collection of short stories set in California and dealing with the more colorful population of that city. Burgess was the author of "The Purple Cow." Very attractive copy.
Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1904
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo. Green publisher's cloth, gilt spine; decorated in black and gilt. 272,32 pp. First British edition. Thirty-two page publisher's catalogue at conclusion of text. Entertains every sort of non-PC situation and language, including a portrait of a man of, presumably, Chinese heritage on the spine. A note at the beginning of the text relates, "Picaroon = a petty rascal, one who lives by his wits, an adventurer." A good copy, spine gilt worn.
Colour TP (illustrator). New York, NY: McClure, Phillips & Company. Good condition-paint on cover, hinges broken/No Dustjacket. 1904. 8vo., 284 pp. . Good condition-paint on cover, hinges broken/No Dustjacket.
Published by McClure, New York, 1904
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-284, title page printed in orange and black, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. A series of linked stories (a "San Francisco Night's Entertainment," the authors call them) told round the table at Coffee John's, a low class eatery in San Francisco. Largely tales of roguery and crime, the author explaining in a prefatory note that a picaroon is the typical hero of a picaresque tale, which, originating in early seventeenth-century Spain, relates the adventures of a rogue. In one of the stories, a charlatan who styled himself "Professor Vango" when he was conducting fake seances, tells how he became haunted by the genuine ghost of one of his clients. Bleiler (1948), p. 65. Reginald 02215. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 15. Hubin (1994), p. 117. Baird and Greenwood 354. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 B-1207. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, small old glue stain at upper edge of front paste-down where a label was removed, a very good copy. (#159735).
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. 1st edition. 255 p.
Published by McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1904
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Special Edition. The Picaroons by Gelett Burgess and Will Irwin. First edition, Special Edition Variant Binding in original dark blue cloth with elaborate spine decoration in gold. Publisher: McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1904. Copyright page indicates Published, April, 1904 . 284 pages. Binding is in near fine condition with Special Edition noted on the spine. Contents clean. Per the prefatory note: a Picaroon is "a petty rascal; one who lives by his wits; an adventurer. 5 ½ x 7 ¾ inches. Inventory #23-102. Price: $75.
Published by WENTWORTH PR, 2016
ISBN 10: 1374586943ISBN 13: 9781374586949
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Book
Condition: New.
Published by William Doxey, San Francisco, 1897
Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Lark ran from May 1895 until May 1897, each 16-page issue was a fanciful collection of creative writing, cartoons, and miscellany. Begins with the year's index followed by twelve 16-page issues. Printed on handmade paper variously described as Chinese rice paper, Chinese bamboo fiber paper, and just bamboo paper, the sure thing is that the stock is untrimmed at bottom edges, appears in various weights, and occasionally is so thin that pages appear to be printed on doubled paper, many uncut. Important early illustration by L. Maynard Dixon, "Vals de Monterey Viejo" accompanied by his poem of the same title published as a supplement to Issue #22, February 1897. Unpag. Brown cloth covered boards with a color woodblock illustration by Florence Lundborg of a figure playing a pan flute. Light scuffing, clean tight copy with a previous owner's bookplate pasted to front pastedown. Volume contains one year's monthly issues plus the "Epilark," a final sally.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FIRST. The Picaroons. New York: McClure, Phillips, & Company, 1904. First edition. Signed and inscribed by both authors. Octavo. 284 pages. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth; original illustrated dust jacket. Minor edgewear, spine sunned. Signature and inscription to front free endpaper recto; endpapers with minor foxing. Internally generally clean; top edge gilt, fore and tail edge untrimmed, minor edgewear, some chipping, minor intermittent foxing. Dust jacket unclipped (price $1.50); Signed by Author(s).