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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
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
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
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
