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18106229Dublin: Hibernia Magazine 1810. Uncut engraved sheet in the shape of a hand fan 32.5 x 50 cm. Printed verso only. A parodic table setting. The image depicts the table for a "Marriage Feast" with a main table and dessert and liquor side tables. The tables are decorated with cupids arrows and quivers doves and paired lovebirds. The names of the dishes reveal the conceit with "Devine Part of a Man Boiled" and "An Unruly Member Garnished". Mounted in a simple matte. Light creases at folds lines otherwise fine. Hibernia Magazine unknown books
1926WRCLIT39091London: Stanley Paul & Co. 1926. Stiff pictorial wrappers. First U.K. edition of this parody of Anita Loos's bestseller. Wrappers faintly dusty with old crease at one corner but an unusually nice copy. Stanley Paul & Co. unknown books
1903WRCLIT79861London: Heinemann 1903. Two octavo volumes. Pictorial olive green cloth stamped in red and black. Frontispieces and illustrations by "S.R." i.e. Stafford Ransome. Cloth a bit rubbed and soiled with some pale stains to the image on the upper board of the second front free endsheet of second volume neatly excised small punctures/scrapes at toes of spine cat scratching otherwise good and sound. First edition of these parodies of ALICE. by the prolific journalist and miscellaneous writer written with the unspecified collaboration of M. H. Temple. Both are primarily political satires the product of frustrations about the Boer War and the British government of the time. Begbie went on to support pacifists and conscientious objection to the Great War and put himself out front with a vigorous defense of the reality of the supposed apparition of the Angel of Mons. The initial volume of this parody was so successful that by the time of the appearance of the second the first was in its tenth 'edition'. Heinemann hardcover books
1903WRCLIT79860London: Heinemann 1903. Two octavo volumes. Pictorial olive green cloth stamped in red and black. Frontispieces and illustrations by "S.R." i.e. Stafford Ransome. Light offset to endsheets some foxing to tissue guards between titles and frontispieces otherwise a very good to near fine set. First edition of these parodies of ALICE. by the prolific journalist and miscellaneous writer written with the unspecified collaboration of M. H. Temple. Both are primarily political satires the product of frustrations about the Boer War and the British government of the time. Begbie went on to support pacifists and conscientious objection to the Great War and put himself out front with a vigorous defense of the reality of the supposed apparition of the Angel of Mons. The initial volume of this parody was so successful that by the time of the appearance of the second the first was in its tenth 'edition'. Heinemann hardcover books
184730013New York: Williams and Brothers 1847. 1st US edition cf. Gimbel H-338; Kitton 540; Miller p. 249; NCBEL III 798. Modern black leather spine with gilt lettering with period brown cloth covered boards. EPS renewed. Pale yellow printed wrappers bound-in at rear. Bound with Tavistock Books' item #30012 Dombey & Son and price is for both titles. Fore-edge occasionally closely trimmed otherwise a VG copy. 2 94 pp. Bound from the UK sheets. Illustrated with 12 wood-cuts. Tall 8vo. <br/><br/> Williams and Brothers hardcover books
18473553London: Thomas Farris 1847. 1st edition Gimbel H-338; Kitton 540; Miller p. 249; NCBEL III 798. Period brown half-leather with brown cloth boards. Original wrapper covers from Parts I & II priced 6p bound-in at rear. VG spine leather a bit sunned/some minor rubbing to joints/multiple bookplates to eps. 2 94 pp. Illustrated with 12 wood-cuts. Tall 8vo. 10-1/8" x 6-1/2" <br/><br/> Thomas Farris hardcover books
1887165344London: Longmans 1887. Small octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-119 120: ad rebound in full nineteenth century polished calf front and rear panels ruled in gold spine panel tooled in gold black leather title piece inner dentelles. First edition. A bibliographically complex book this is probably the second printing with "Authors" changed to "Author" on the title page and "ALAN" corrected to "ALLAN" on the dedication page for bibliographical particulars see Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II pp. 143-4. A Haggard parody perhaps written with some assistance from Haggard himself that "consists of adventures around London paralleling those of Holly and Vincey culminating in a swindle." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction p. 299. The supernatural curses witchcraft etc. are parodied and rationalized. An amusing story. Bleiler p. 118. Reginald 08596. Scott 625. Attractively bound with the original front and rear wrappers preserved. The binding is cracked along the outer hinge which is still holding tight and there is a small chip from the lower spine end which has been reattached. Internally a lovely copy. #165344 Longmans unknown books
1887138574London: Longmans 1887. Small octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-119 120: ad rebound in old drab wrappers. First edition. A bibliographically complex book this is probably the first printing for bibliographical particulars see Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II pp. 143-4. A Haggard parody perhaps written with some assistance from Haggard himself that "consists of adventures around London paralleling those of Holly and Vincey culminating in a swindle." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction p. 299. The supernatural curses witchcraft etc. are parodied and rationalized. An amusing story. Bleiler p. 118. Reginald 08596. Scott 625. A very good copy. #138574 Longmans unknown books
17012506"A Gringuenaude i.e. Paris: chez Vincent d'Avalos & Fleurimont Mordant rue du Gros Visage a l'Enseigne du Privé Conseil attenant l'Hôtellerie de la Fleur" 1701. 12mo 129 x 76 mm. viii 64 pp. Half-title. Expressive woodcut vignette on title a chamber pot and its contents. Occasional very light spotting else fine. 19th-century citron morocco sides gilt panelled spine gilt lettered longitudinally turn-ins gilt gilt edges pair of vellum flyleaves by Koehler with his signature on verso of front free endpaper. First Edition of a silly scatological spoof. Farts excrement latrines and their Rabelaisian synonyms provide characters' and place names and an endless supply of windy jokes in this ultimately tragic love tale. The hero Prince Croqu'Etron Sht-eater son of the sneaky Roi de Vesse Silent-But-Deadly-Fart falls in love with the lovely Princess Foirette Diarrhea daughter of his father's enemy the open-hearted Roi Petaut Loud Fart. Abetted by King Vesse's minister Constipati whose secret liaison with one of Foirette's governesses Lady Clisterine Enema makes him take the Prince's side Croqu'Etron persuades his father to replace war with dynastic marriage a gentler path to territorial aggrandizement. Love vanquishes all King Petaud gives Prince Croqu'Etron a handsome commode chair and the Kingdom of Caca finds peace but the newly married lovers meet their demise at the hands of the evil Prince Gadouard Manure who drowns them in vats of perfume and is punished by the king with the opposite fate being buried alive in you know what. This clever extended dirty joke complete with satirical preface and facetious printing permission dated from Laval 1 Sept. 1701 and a final selection of verses sung at the royal marriage at some point became associated with the fairy tale author Mlle. de Lubert ca. 1702-ca. 1779 whose style it appears to parody. Either through a misunderstanding or as a joke the book was even sometimes attributed to her notwithstanding both its contents and the date of the permission d'imprimer. This is the only 18th-century edition but the book's publishing history was garbled by Gay who describes two 18th-century editions dating the supposed first ca. 1701 based on the facetious permission and a second edition from ca. 1790; according to Gay only the second edition contains the section titled Contes et devis. which appear in this edition on pp. 56-64. Confused library cataloguers have thus dated this edition to ca. 1790. Its typography however points to an earlier date. Stanford University holds a manuscript of the text from the Phillipps collection with textual variants dated 1716. Reprints appeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. OCLC lists 4 copies in N. American libraries. Jannet Bibliotheca scatologica 1850 28; Gay-Lemonnyer II:581-2; Barbier II:833; Quérard La France Littéraire V: 382; Cioranescu 18. s. 40961. Cf. note in the Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire vol. 14 p. 645; D. Haase ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales 2008 I:590-91. chez Vincent d'Avalos & Fleurimont Mordant, rue du Gros Visage, a l'Enseigne du Privé Conseil, attenant l' hardcover books
18244737London: Printed for Jones & Co 1824. 1st ed. Modern maroon half-leather binding with marbled boards. New eps. Fine bpt. 2 vol 30 hand-colored plates 8vo. <br/><br/>A satrical look at the times. Printed for Jones & Co hardcover books
1971WRCLIT84918New York: Cambist Films 1971. 8pp. Folio 44.5 x 28.5 cm. Color pictorial self wrapper. Illustrations. Horizontal fold off center lower corner clipped very good. The studio promotional pressbook for this early John G. Avildsen film following on the heels of JOE. Allan Garfield Paul Sorvino Marcia Jean Kurtz et al joined in the sexploitative detective farce. In 1976 Avildson won an Oscar as Best Director of ROCKY. Cambist Films unknown books
183849663London: W. Marshall 24 Tavistock Street Covent Garden 1838. 1st printing presumed. Early but probably not original plain brown paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Disbound. General wear & soiling to wrappers. Occasional soil & foxing. About Very Good. 12 36 pp. Publisher advert p. 4 advising all that "Marshall's Pocket-Book Business is Removed from 1 Holborn Bars." Contains 11 additional sketches: The Dilemma anonymous 2 pp A Day at Epping anonymous 2 pp We Must Go to Margate This Season anonymous 2 pp My Maiden Speech Carpenter 2 pp Good Shots Attree 2 pp Balloning anonymous 1 pp A Tale of Mystery anonymous 2 pp I'll Have a Gala Night by the author of 'Love for Light Hearts &c' 2 pp Our Festival Day by the author of 'Random Rhymes &c' 2 pp A Progeny of a Punster Harcourt 1 p. Frontis. T.p. vignette. 12 other illustrations 11 full page with contributions by at least 2 other unidentified artists. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/>Date of printing determined from the dated advert p. 4. <br /> <br />"Boz the Younger" signs in type the first two sketches: "Old Weller's Chapter of Fat and Sam's Visit to see the Goswell Street Cattle Show"; "Sam Weller's Description of the Proclamation of Victoria I." Each one page in length. Given at the time of this publication Dickens was immersed in Oliver Twist & Nicholas Nickleby we feel confident in saying this booklet was an effort to captialize on his burgeoning fame as Boz. <br /> <br />A rather rare early 19th C. illustrated publication; at the time of cataloguing not found in any of the standard Dickens references not found on COPAC with OCLC listing just 3 institutional holdings of only 12 pages. W. Marshall, 24, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden unknown books
1923WRCLIT76216Cedar Rapids IA: Privately Printed 1923. Printed wrappers. Fine in slightly torn and frayed glassine wrapper. First edition in book form of this complimentary parody by the poet and future prolific screenwriter first published in the NY TRIBUNE. According to Kellner the edition consisted of 250 copies. KELLNER H81. Privately Printed unknown books
