Bates Brainard Leroy (2 results)
Published by A.M. Davis Co, Boston, 1918
- Softcover
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerStaplebound. 29, [3] pp., illustrations, color printed wraps. 5.25 x 3.75 in. Cover illustration of a soldier in a red hat shouting, musical notes projecting from his open mouth. Cover price: ?Price 10 cents.? Booklet of songs, all parodies of war songs popular in the United States during World War I. While meant to be humorous,… the songs retain all the jingoism of the originals. The author notes that the lyrics were lifted from active-duty soldiers. Appended are ads for the author?s other humorous works on World War I, including Trench Gas: A Bunch of Clever Nuts and The Life and Death of the Kaiser.
More imagesPublished by A. M. Davis Co., Boston, 1918
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 39.00
£ 18.99 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A very scarce First World War parody songbook based on popular American wartime tunes, illustrated with humorous vignette illustrations throughout. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps.First edition.A very scarce copy of this work, with no copies held institutio…nally.A collection of humorous parody songs based on popular American wartime tunes, drawn from verses circulating among active-duty soldiers.Illustrated with humorous vignette illustrations throughout.The final pages advertise Bates"s other wartime comic works, including Trench Gas: A Bunch of Clever Nuts, How to be a Soldier and The Life and Death of the Kaiser. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. Externally, generally smart. Crease to lower corner of front wrap. Creasing down the center of the rear wrap, with the odd closed tear along the crease. Three marks of glue residue to rear wrap with slight paper residue to upper mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots. Very Good Indeed. None Stated (illustrator). book.
