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PRINTED PAPER COVERS. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE CONDITION. First Edition. (2) + 5 - 31 PAGES. THIS ITEM OF AMERICAN "HUMOR AND EROTIC POETRY" CONTAINS FOUR PROSE VERSES BY THREE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST HUMORISTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY. THE ARTICLES BY EUGENE FIELD INCLUDE "A FRENCH CRISIS" ABOUT A FRENCH HARLOT AND A MAN WITH A PRODIGIOUS SIZED PENIS AND "LITTLE WILLIE," A TALE OF A LITTLE BOY WHO WETS THE BED, A THIRD VERSE BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY IS TITLED "THE OLD BACKHOUSE" THE HISTORY TALE OF THE OLDE OUTHOUSE TOILET. THE FOURTH TALE IS BY MARK TWAIN AND HAS A TITLE "FIRESIDE CONVERSATION." THE TALE IS ABOUT THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND PASSING NOXIOUS FLATUS WITH COMMENTARY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND LORD FRANCIS BACON. THE VERSE IS IN YE OLDE ENGLISH TERMINOLOGY. THIS UNCOMMON BOOKLET WAS PRINTED PRIVATELY FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. THE "DUST JACKET" IS A CLEAR ONION SKIN LIKE PAPER THAT IS ATTACHED TO THE STIFF PAPER COVERS WITH THE TITLE PRINTED ON THE FRONT COVER. Size: 6" x 9 1/4".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Julian Brazleton (illustrator). Literary Classics Edition xiv, 655 p. illus. (facsim) 17 cm. LCCN 43051076 OCLC 944648 LC PS507 .W64 Dewey 810.82 ; grey-green boards with blue designs and lettering, in color dustjacket ; Contents: [1.] American fiction. The devil and Daniel Webster/ Stephen Vincent Bene?t -- Tom Whipple / Walter D. Edmonds -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- Missionary journeys / Willa Cather -- The duke and the daupin come aboard / Mark Twain -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- A preacher goes to war / John W. Thomason, Jr -- Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris -- A last will / Williston Fish -- One arrowhead day / Harry Leon Wilson -- The skylight room / O. Henry -- Rupe Collins / Booth Tarkington -- Our new telephone / Ruth Gordon -- Some like them cold / Ring Lardner -- At the end of the car line / Ben Hur Lampman -- The Japanese / Ogden Nash -- Fifty grand / Ernest Hemingway -- The waltz / Dorothy Parker -- You mean common / Arthur Kober -- Address Unknown / Kressman Taylor. -- [2.] American verse. -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Death and General Putnam / Arthur Guiterman -- Home, Sweet Home / John Howard Payne -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Nancy Hanks / Rosemary Bene?t -- Ethiopia saluting the colors / Walt Whitman -- As toilsome I wandered Virginia's woods / Walt Whitman -- Little boy blue / Eugene Field -- The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- American laughter / Kenneth Allan Robinson -- Plain language from truthful James / Bret Harte -- Little Willie / Eugene Field -- The mystery of Gilgal / John Hay -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The old man and Jim / James Whitcomb Riley -- John L. Sullivan, the strong boy of Boston / Vachel Lindsay -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- my sweet old etcetera / e. e. cummings -- Two-volume novel / Dorothy Parker -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- The maid-servant at the inn / Dorothy Parker -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Early moon / Carl Sandburg -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Shenandoah Road / E.B. White -- Aged four / Mildred Focht -- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- To fight aloud is very brave / Emily Dickinson -- Song in exile / Alice Duer Miller -- Scum o' the earth / Robert Haven Schauffler -- My city / James Weldon Johnson -- Farewell, my friends / Clarence Day. -- [3.] American fact. -- The declaration of independence -- A letter from Franklin to Washington -- Under a cloud of sail / Richard Henry Dana -- Where I lived and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau -- The hunting camp / Francis Parkman -- The only one / Maude Barnes Miller -- The death of John Quincy Adams / Carl Sandburg -- For us, the living / Alexander Woollcott -- The second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Confederate army / John W. Thomason, Jr -- The first G.A.R. parade / Lloyd Lewis -- Three speeches / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr -- The Trawnbeighs / Charles M. Flandrau -- Thanksgiving proclamation / Wilbur L. Cross -- Mary White / William Allen White -- A wedding notice from the Fountain inn tribune / Robert Quillen -- A letter from Nicola Sacco to his son -- Mon pays / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Coon hunt / E.B. White --A visit to London / Frank Sullivan -- The turtle / Ogden Nash -- The Norse travel again / W.L. White -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A talk to young men / Robert C. Benchley -- P.S. he got the job / Anonymous -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier ; FINE/VG. Book.

Paperback. First edition thus. Original printed wrappers, 9.5 x 6.25 inches, 31 pp. 4 short ribald writings by the named authors (2 are by Eugene Field). Rusty staining to front wrapper, else very good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Octavo, 32 pages, printed on Alexandra Japan, white paper vellum wrappers (chipped at bottom of top cover) This short story features "Ye Queene Elizabeth, Francis Bacon, Shaxpur [sic], Sr. Walter Ralegh, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumonte, the Duchess of Bilgewater, Lady Helen, and maidens of honor, as told by Ye Queen's cup-bearer. [ Meine, Bibliography of 1601, 16 ( see also no. 12]. Allegedly printed for the editor, Vanover. "Backhouse" has been attributed to J. W. Riley, but not by Riley's bibliographers. "French Crisis has been attributed to Eugene Field, but without substantiation, but he is credited for "Little Willie".

4 short pieces privately printed for subscribers only. Field Fireside Conversation, Twain; A French Crisis, Field; Little Willie, Field; The Old Backhouse, Riley. ~~Original printed wrappers, 9 1/2" x 6 1/4" inches, 31 pp, stapled. Embossed "Library of Robert W. Waite" on title page. Slight wear around edges of wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Later Printings. 31, [3] pages (the last 3 pages blank) ; 24 cm [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], No date, circa 1920s. Contains three classics of "outhouse" humor. Bound in quarter red morocco over pale green buckram, gilt back, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, authors and titles in gilt front cover, Near Fine, the buckram with sun spotting. "Backhouse" has been attributed to Riley, but not by his bibliographers. SCARCE, OCLC locates only 3 copies. OCLC: 9379973. Size: Thin 8vo. Book.