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Published by Sheldon & Company, New York, 1872
Hardcover. Condition: Used - Acceptable. NY: Sheldon & Company, 1872. vii,(250) pages. Many comic drawings. 8 x 5.5", black, gold & blind stamped pictorial orange cloth. 'To M.A.L. Munson, Treasurer "Jockey Club" from The Author, "Eli Perkins", Melville D. Landon, Fifth Avenue Hotel, Oct. 1, 1874' on blank & pencil lines along few passages about jockeys. Letters to New York Commercial Advertiser on horse races, gambling, Congress Spring, Round Lake Camp Meeting, poker, dress, park benches, Clarendon Hotel, preaching, flirting, etiquette, ball, hop, intemperance, cant words. Wright, American Fiction 1505. Edges frayed, cloth soiled, text foxed, few adhesive marks on blank, G.
Published by New York.Sheldon & Company. 1872, 1872
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, 19.5cm, first edition, vii,250p., with 200 drawn illustrations from wood engravings, in the original orange cloth,gilt titles and black stamped illustrations and decorations on the spine and upper cover, top and bottom spine edge chipped otherwise a very good to fine clean sound copy. (am) A satire on upper crust society in Saratoga, New York by American humorist, Melville D. Landon(1839-1910), Writing much in the style of Mark Twain, Landon was given the pseudonym, Eli Perkins, by Artemus Ward. The extensive Lumley drawings were printed by Leggo & Co., Photo-Steam Litho, Montreal.
Cloth(Hrdcvr). Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). New York, NY: Sheldon Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1872. . Cloth(Hrdcvr). 12mo., 250 pp., cover rubbed, owner's inscription .