Editor Wilbur Nesbit (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Not Illustrated (illustrator). Chicago, IL: P.F. Volland & Company. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1909. . Hardcover. 16mo., 64 p.p., Shelf wear; front cover panel missing bottom right corner and back panel missing bottom left corner; corners and spine bumped; edges of cover lightly chipped; pages clean and unmarked. .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 7th Edition - 1909 (stated) CLEAN in text. No marks. Stiff paper covers in ribbon tied binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1909. Clean and tightly bound in color pictorial wraps with cord-tied binding. Edgewear and light curve at the fore edge, otherwise near fine. The contents remain fine; clean and unmarked.

Tied Binding. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [2], 64, [2] pages. Rare. Includes many short poems and excerpts about babies. Wilbur Dick Nesbit (1871-1927), also known by the pen name Josh Wink, was an American poet and humorist. He is most known for his poem, Your Flag and My Flag, which was popular during World War I. Throughout his career, he contributed his humor writing to many publications, including the Chicago Inter Ocean, Chicago Evening Post, Chicago Tribune, and Baltimore News-American. Nesbit's first writings appeared in the Cedarville Herald. He started out as a printer before becoming a reporter, and moving to Anderson, Indiana in 1889. Here, Nesbit was an editor for the Anderson Times. He continued to move around to various cities, including Muncie, Indianapolis, and Baltimore. During his time in Baltimore, Nesbit was a featured writer for the Baltimore News-American under the pen name, Josh Wink. In 1902, Nesbit moved to Chicago. He wrote for the Chicago Tribune, where his column was titled, "A Line O' Type or Two." Besides writing for the Tribune, he was also on the staff for the Chicago Evening Post. In Chicago, Nesbit worked at the Mahin (also spelled Makin) Advertising Company. Nesbit was Vice President of the company and the Director of the copy staff. Nesbit collaborated with cartoonist Clare Briggs. His most well-known work is the poem, Your Flag and My Flag. It appeared in the Baltimore American in 1902, and became popular during World War I. It was often recited in school classrooms. Much of his work was published by Chicago publishers P. F. Volland Company and Frank K. Root & Co. The Editor notes that there have been and are so many babies in the world that it seems unfair that there is not a book especially devoted to them. So he has searched through the works of writers, old and new, and has tried to select the very best things they had to say about that little monarch--Baby. The Editor also stated "We wish to thank all the modern writers who have so generously permitted us to use their work in this collection; as to the ancient ones, they have had their rewards.".