Mrs. Raffles by John Kendrick Bangs - 1905: Being The Adventures Of An Amateur Crackswoman. Narrated by Bunny

New York / London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1905. First edition. Hardcover, Illustrated Boards. Original, Good Condition. Illustrated by Albert Levering. After Raffles, a character created by E. W. Hornung. Among many other books Bangs wrote two short story collections which are sequels to the Raffles books by E. W. Hornung. 'Mrs. Raffles: Being the Adventures of an Amateur Cracks Woman, Narrated by Bunny' (1905), and 'R. Holmes & Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth' (1906).
John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. In 1884 to become Associate Editor of Life magazine but left in 1888 to to work at Harper's Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Young People. From 1889 to 1900 he held the title of Editor of the Departments of Humor for all three Harper's magazines and from 1899 to 1901 served as active editor of Harper's Weekly. He left Harper & Brothers in 1901 and became editor of the New Metropolitan magazine in 1903. In 1904 he was appointed editor of Puck, perhaps the foremost American humor magazine of its day.
Albert Levering (1869 - 1929) was an American architect and cartoonist, famed for his light-hearted and comical touches. He contributed work to Harper's Monthly Magazine, and Harper's Weekly. During his career, Levering also worked on the staff at Puck and Life, and illustrated several book, some of which included Grimm Tales Made Gay, Mollie and the Unwiseman, and Alice in Blunderland.
180pp. No DJ, unsure if issued, gift inscription on fep otherwise clean internally.

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