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185685406New York: D. Appleton and Company 1856. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo 7 1/2 in. x 5 in. Brown publishers cloth blind-spamped decorations to front and back boards. Gilt portrait to front board. Some rubbing to extremities corners bumped. Cloth chipped to front hinge top and bottom of spine. Letters in gilt on spine with humorous scene in gilt. pp. 1 274 14-advertisements. Dark maroon colored pastedowns and free endpapers. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper "Bueyins J.H. Hofman Sept 17 1859" possibly 1889. Pencil inscription "Dave yocum" to the back of frontispiece. Portrait frontispiece with printed autograph. Pencil inscription "J.H. Hofman" to titlepage. Some spotting mostly in margins and first 25 pages. Faint damp stain to bottom edge of rear advertisements. Internal pages clean. Sabin 19665. The army lieutenant George Horatio Derby 1823-1861 wrote popular sketches and burlesques under the pseudonym John Phoenix or John P. Squibob. After graduating from West Point in 1846 he joined the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers to fight in the Mexican-American War. In 1853 Derby relocated to San Diego. In his spare time there he wrote short sketches and burlesques for the San Francisco Herald California Pioneer and the San Diego Herald. Topics included military surveyors travel accounts and local women's clubs. He compiled his writings into the present publication which saw 11 editions in one year. Wikipedia. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
190348528New York: D. Appleton and Company 1903. Hardcover. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Introduction by John Kendrick Bangs. Small 8vo. Yellow cloth with red lettering and red-bordered gilt lettering and black and red pictorial stamping. xvi 332pp 4pp ads. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece small- and full-page line drawings. Near fine. Nonauthorial Christmas 1903 gift inscription on front flyleaf; spine ever-so-faintly toned. Exceptionally tight and handsome first of this edition. Phoenix was the pseudonym of George H. Derby 1832-61 a West Point classmate of Ulysses S. Grant and Army lieutenant best remembered as an early California humorist publishing newspaper sketches under the name "John Phoenix" nicknamed "Squibob." First published in London in 1855 and the U.S. in 1856 this edition features Kemble's delightful illustrations. Phoenix specialized in cutting the local San Francisco gentry and their ways down to size -- some sample chapters convey his style: "Official Report of Professor John Phoenix A.M." "Pistol Shooting -- A Counter Challenge" "Phoenix at the Mission Dolores" "Squibob in San Francisco" "Sandyago -- A Soliquy" "Fourth of July Celebration in San Diego" "The San Francisco Antiquarian Society and California Academy of Arts and Sciences" "The Ladies' Relief Society" "Squibob Abhors Street Introductions" "Phoenix in San Diego" and much more. Quite a superb copy and in outstanding pictorial binding. BAL 762. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
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1884CD125New York: D. Appleton & Company 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Green Cloth minor edge wear gilt imp on cover gilt lettering on spine gilt demon in ink well illustration on spine original floral endpapers previous owners inscription. "Sundry sketches recently published in the newspapers and magazines of California." --Pref. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages. D. Appleton & Company hardcover
18678251New York: D. Appleton & Company 1867. Twelfth Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good in boards. Minor edgewear and rubbing to exterior. A few small stains to interior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. D. Appleton & Company hardcover
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1856212652New York: Appleton 1856. First. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece woodcut. 274 pages 14 pages of advertisements. 12mo blind stamped blue cloth with a heavily gilt spine and front cover extremities of spine chipped. New York: Appleton 1856. First Edition. Very Good.<br/> <br/> Appleton unknown
190342669New York: D. Appleton 1903. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition thus illustrated by E.W. Kemble and with an introduction by John Kendrick Bangs. Boards and spine slightly tanned else near fine in good tanned dustwrapper with half of the spine missing as well as some chipping and heavy wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. Inscribed by Bangs. D. Appleton hardcover
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