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PHOENIXIANA or Sketches and Burlesques
190359669New York: D. Appleton and Company 1903. Hardcover. Near Fine. A New Edition Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. With an Introduction by John Kendrick Bangs. First edition thus. A lifelong wag and practical joker Derby 1823-61 was a West Point graduate serving with the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers assigned in San Francisco and San Diego during the 1850s. These burlesques of the local citizenry written under the guise of his pseudonyms "John Phoenix" and "John P. Squibob" were the state's first published humor. Octavo. Original yellow cloth binding with pictorial black red and gilt stamping. Internally crisp and clean. The spine is lightly faded; otherwise near fine. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
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