Some Limericks. Collected for the use of Students, & ensplendour'd with Introduction, Geographical Index, and with Notes Explanatory and Critical

Douglas, Norman

Published by Privately Printed, 1928

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First American edition, no. 350 of an edition of 750 copes. 97 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Issued by David Moss of the Gotham Bookmart, there were several imitations of this edition (see Woolf, pp. 98-9). With the gallows bookplate of American popular author and Fortean Tiffany Thayer (1902-1959), who was born in Illinois and became a copyboy on a Chicago newspaper at age 15 and worked for a time a an actor and reporter before moving to New York in 1926. He landed in advertising and soon began to write Thirteen Men, which became a best selelr when published in 1930. Thayer had a long connection with Charles Fort, writing the introduction to Lo! (1931) and founding the Fortean Scoiety with Theodore Dreiser that same year. Woolf A27f Original rough brown linen. Some toning to spine, light rubbing. Bookplate of Tiffany Thayer First American edition, no. 350 of an edition of 750 copes.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Some Limericks. Collected for the use of Students, & ensplendour'd with Introduction, Geographical Index, and with Notes Explanatory and Critical
• Publisher: Privately Printed
• Publication Date: 1928
• Binding: 97 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
• Edition: 1st Edition
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