Royal Decrees Scanderoon: First Edition (5 results)
Published by Russells' American Steam Printing House, New York 1869
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, CanadaAttic Books (ABAC, ILAB)
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Add to basketCloth Bound. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 47 p. 18 cm. 5 b&w full-page illustrations + title page vignette. Brown cloth hardcover with gold impressing. Light wear. Damage to top part of front endpapers and bottom corner of rear endpapers where they seem to have stuck together. Pencil inscription on next page. Damp stained page…bottoms. An anti-Tammany Hall New York political poem by Stoddard, an author and inventor as well as secretary to President Lincoln. Title continues "Dedicated by the Author To the Sachems of Tammany, and to the Other Grand Magnorums of Manhattan".
Published by Russells' American Steam Printing House, New York 1869
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, U.S.A.Barry Cassidy Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher's cloth binding with gilt, embossed illustration of king on front cover. Minor rubbing. 45 pages with 5 satirical cartoons. William Osborn Stoddard (1835-1925) was an American author and civil servant who served as President Lincoln's assistant secretary during…his first term. This work is a satirical protesting the graft and corruption by the "Tammany Hall" set, lead by William "Boss" Tweed, who controlled New York City politics in the mid-19th century.
Published by Russells' American Steam Printing House 1869
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, U.S.A.J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publishers green cloth with gilt titles and design and vignette of the crowned and full-bearded King of the City. Published without an author name, by the author the only credit. Political satire on Tammany Hall and its corruption. By William Osborn Stoddard, 1835-1925, author, inven…tor, secretary to President Lincoln. Privately Printed. Light wear. Speer (illustrator).
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, U.S.A.G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller[ROBBINS, Louis S.]. The Royal Decrees of Scanderoon. Dedicated by the Author to the Sachems of Tammany, and To the Other Grand Magnorums of Manhattan. Orig. cloth. Illustrated. N.Y.: Russell's American Steam Printing House, 1869. First edition. Halkett & Laing attributes authorship to William Osborn Stoddard. Sabin 71825 notes…Robbins as the author. A fine copy of this satire on Tammany Hall.
Published by Russell's Steam Printing House, New York 1869
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, U.S.A.Hirschfeld Galleries
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. New York: Russells' American Steam Printing House, 1869. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. 45pp., frontispiece + four plates, all by Speer, slate endpapers. Original green cloth over boards with gilt printing and vignette of the crowned and full-bearded King of the City. Original green cloth is fine, bu…t a trace of wear anywhere, internally fine, tight a superb copy of a rare book. Rarer thus. *** Published without a name, by the author the only credit. Political satire on Tammany Hall and its corruption. By William Osborn Stoddard, 1835-1925, author, inventor, secretary to President Lincoln. Peradventure his first book. Listed in Halkett & Laing. Sabin 91969. Speer (illustrator).
