Publicado por London, Charles H. Clarke, 48, Paternoster Row, 1855
Librería: Books at yeomanthefirst, Folkestone, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Half-Leather. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Smyth Ilustrador. 1st Edition. London, Charles H. Clarke, 48, Paternoster Row. 1855. First Edition. First edition 1855 in marbled, half-leather (spine and corners) hardback book. Book Condition: Very Good minus. Boards show some wear and rubbing to extremities, spine a little scuffed, flat spine, no lean, sound binding. Front endpaper missing, prelims spotted, remainder of contents clean and unmarked though with variable toning in paper. 670 pp, many full page, black and white illustrations to the final book ¿Yankee Humour and Uncle Sam¿s Fun¿. Size - 5¿ x 7¿ (12cm x 18cm) ¿ Rare. Further photos available on request. Containing six, complete works as follows, The Yankee Among The Mermaids; A Yarn by a Cape Codder. By Burton, William E. (William Evans) including three black and white, half-page illustrations, uncredited. 160 pp. Students abroad : their romance and real life by Kimball, Richard B. (Richard Burleigh) First Edition 1855. Ward And Lock, 158, Fleet Street. 1855. 121 pp. The Forger¿s Wife by John Lang. First Edition, 1855. Ward And Lock, 158, Fleet Street. 1855. 128pp. Lobster Salad by Percy Bolingbroke St. John (with Edward Copping), First Edition, London, 1855, Illustrated frontispiece and other in-text chapter heading ills. In black and white, uncredited. Ward And Lock, 158, Fleet Street. 1855. 120pp YANKEE HUMOUR, and Uncle Sam's Fun by Bede, Cuthbert [Edward Bradley]; 1853. London: Nathaniel Cooke, London: Nathaniel Cooke, Milford House, Strand. Third Edition. With an introduction by William Jerdan and eight, striking, full page black and white illustrations, uncredited, possibly by the author. 115 pp. A Story With A Vengeance or, How Many Joints may go to a tale by Angus B. Reach and Shirley Brooks. . Second Edition. With a frontispiece and ten cuts (illustrations) by Smyth. Angus Reach was a British writer noted for his journalism and ficiton. He counted Shirley Brooks as his greatest friend, who was also a novelist and journalist. Brooks is noted for his contributions to Punch, at one time becoming editor. This scarce work is the only one the two wrote together. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. 114pp.