A House-Boat on the Styx, Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades
by Bangs, John Kendrick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine condition/No jacket
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1896. Near Fine condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Front cover and spine stamped in green, red, black and gold (figures in silhouette walking toward a red-roofed boat). White laid endpapers. Illustrated with 24 plates by Peter Newell (including, Wellington Pulls Bonaparte's Chair From Under Him). A classic of humorous repartee [dialogue invented by Bangs] among several of history's immortals including Shakespeare, Raleigh, Blackstone, Cassius, Demosthenes, Confucius, Charon, and Doctor Samuel Johnson. Original olive-green pictorial cloth. Clifford 9:71; Newell's fifth book (Bolton p. 113); BAL 726; Wright (III) 272; AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS (Jacob Blanck, 1942), p. 39; HIGH SPOTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, p. 86 (Merle Johnson); Bleiler, THE GUIDE TO SUPERNATURAL FICTION 89; Bleiler (1978), p. 15; Hubin (1994), p. 46; Reginald 00829.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket. Illus. by Newell, Peter. 12mo. 171pp. + 4 pages of ads.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013651
- Title
- A House-Boat on the Styx, Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades
- Author
- Bangs, John Kendrick
- Illustrator
- Newell, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 12mo. 171pp. + 4 pages of ads
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