[Two Items] the Wasp: Saturday, March 21, 1885 Vol. 14, No. 12. with an Additional Partial Issue for August 1885

Published by E. C. MacFarlane & Co., San Francisco, 1885

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Seller: G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

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5 incisions to spine from prior binding with other issues, a few nicks to top edges of cover, otherwise clean. ; Color litho paper covers. With articles and advertisements; Bierce's column, Prattle; front and back cover (The Oakland Juggernaut) lithographs by George Frederick Keller; double page lithograph "The Bonanza Veterans" regarding Wall Street by Henry Barkhaus. The August 1885 issue is missing some pages, but has an 'extra' front cover featuring many advertisers front, back and inside covers. Also includes the column Prattle by Bierce, and actual front cover lithograph by by Walter Kuhn, as well as one other full page lithograph. Overall loose & tattered at edges with some soil. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 15 pages; "A weekly journal of social commentary and vitriolic color cartoons. Its greatest period was under the editorship of Ambrose Bierce (1881-86) , who wrote much of the text and lashed out at political corruption, particularly in local government or related to the Big Four; at revolutionary social views, including those of organized labor and of Denis Kearney; and at Chinese immigration" (Hart, Companion to California).…

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Title
[Two Items] the Wasp: Saturday, March 21, 1885 Vol. 14, No. 12. with an Additional Partial Issue for August 1885
Author
(Bierce, Ambrose, Ed. ) ;
Publisher
E. C. MacFarlane & Co., San Francisco
Publication year
1885
Condition
Very Good+
Binding
Softcover

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In addition to the home office, I have two spaces at Booktown Books in Grass Valley, a co-op of some 8 booksellers. Also, I remain connected with my old bookstall now run by 34 Trinity Arts & News in downtown San Francisco at 34 Trinity Place near Montgomery between Bush & Sutter Streets.

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