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A House Boat on the Styx Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades by Bangs, John Kendrick - 1919

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A House Boat on the Styx Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades by Bangs, John Kendrick - 1919

A House Boat on the Styx Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades

by Bangs, John Kendrick

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London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1919. Twenty-Sixth Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A House-Boat on the Styx is a book written by John Kendrick Bangs and published in 1895. The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up to the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of its publication) has gone to Styx, the river that circles the underworld. The book begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx being startled and annoyed by the arrival of a houseboat on the Styx. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out that he is actually to be appointed the boat's janitor. What follows are eleven more stories (for a total of twelve) which are set on the house boat. There is no central theme, and the purpose of the book appears to be as a literary thought experiment to see what would happen if various famous dead people were put in the same room with each other. Each chapter is a short story featuring various souls from history and mythology. In the twelfth chapter the house boat disappears, leading into the sequel, Pursuit of the House-Boat. A House-Boat on the Styx appears to have no original fictional characters in it. All are borrowed with varying degrees of licence from either history or mythology. Bangs' idea of setting people in the afterlife (called Bangsian fantasy after his name) is quite similar to a book called God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut. Throughout the book, there is a running joke that Shakespeare didn't actually write any of his own plays, that they were actually ghostwritten by Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, and other contemporaries. Will always tries to change the subject quickly when authorship comes into conversation. Heroes in Hell, the first book in a series of fantasy short story collections by various authors, has a similar, albeit more modern, theme. Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series is similar in that the main characters are, for the most part, historical figures who are resurrected on a planet with one great river winding around it." Wikipedia PLATE FRONTISPIECE, 23 PLATE ILLUSTRATIONS Very good black cloth. Slight wear, previous owner name inside. 1919, 16mo, 171pp. [1], BAL 726, Bleiler p.14

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  • Edition Twenty-Sixth Printing
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  • Publisher Harper & Brothers Publishers
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1919
  • Pages 171
  • Keywords Literature Fiction Styx Charon Associated Shades (1862-1922)
  • Size 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

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New York NY: Harper & Brothers. 1895. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Foxing on endpapers. Previous owner's name. ; B&W Illustrations; 171 pages .
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New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1897. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4400 shelf. Compact 6.75" high x 4.5" wide. Gold, black & red-stamped partly waterstained slightly discolored olive cloth. Inked name FEP, clean text. With uncredited Peter Newell b/w artwork; ads. Solid.
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A House-Boat on the Styx, Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades

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NY: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1895. Hardcover. Spine a bit darkened; Illustrated green cloth hardcover, B&W plates ; 12mo; viii + 171 pages .
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New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1896. ........ Cloth. 12mo., 171 pp., RUBBED .
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New York [and] London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Original pictorial cloth stamped in gold, black, red and green. Illustrated with 24 plates by Peter Newell. A nice early copy. Very good+.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Harper & Brothers, New York and London: 1897., 1897 pp. viii, 171, (4)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus frontis and full page plates. 8vo. Original full gold decorated pictorial green cloth binding. Spine dust spotted otherwise a nice copy. HUMOR 1 0.0. Hardcover.
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Hardcover. Good condition; pictorial front board stained. . Peter Newell. 171p., illus.
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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.… Read More
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First edition. With 24 illustrations by Peter Newell. viii, 171, [1], [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original olive pictorial cloth, spine darkened, else fine> Bookplate W.D. Vincent. Newell, Peter. First edition. With 24 illustrations by Peter Newell. viii, 171, [1], [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Illustrated by Newell. BAL 726
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