Doesticks P B Philander (16 results)

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Witches of New York. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Binding copy, as covers have come off but are present. Pages very clean and bright. Lots of ads forward and back. Early edition. Binding is Hardbound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Doesticks: What He Says - Q. K. Philander Doesticks P. B. (pseud. Mortimer Neal Thomson 1831-1875), First Edition, Edward Livermore, New York 1855 An early collection from popular humorist and New York Tribune journalist Mortimer Neal Thomson writing under the aforementioned pseudonym (the full version is "Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick"). From the library of Ed Grabhorn, co-founder of the illustrious Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Also bearing the signature of one James S. Thomson, San Francisco 1855, perhaps a relation, modern ownership signature penned to front pastedown. Gilt and blind-stamped brown cloth, 12mo, pp. xii, 13-330; frontis. and 7 full page illustrations; Good condition with chip to head of spine, some splitting to cloth at joint ends, tail, and fore-edge corners, slightly cocked, foxing to edges and endpapers, small damp spot to front board, light soil to text [Slater, Fletcher Daniel, The Life and Letters of Mortimer Thomson, 1931].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition, though there is noticeable ground-in dirt and rubbing. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, with some light, generalized toning throughout the text block. This copy is missing the advertisment on the front endpaper (only a few have been found with the ad). The book is a satire, in poetry format, of the snobbery of the upperclasses of England and the US during this time period. "Mortimer Q. Thomson (September 2, 1832 June 25, 1875) was an American journalist and humorist who wrote under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks. He was born in Riga, New York and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended Michigan University in Ann Arbor, but was expelled along with several others either for his involvement in secret societies or for "too much enterprise in securing subjects for the dissecting room." After a brief period working in theater, he became a journalist and lecturer. For his published writings he used the pen name "Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B." , a pseudonym he had first used in university (the full version is "Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick"). A collection published in 1855, Doesticks What He Says, reprinted many of his pieces. In 1856 he wrote Plu-Ri-Bus-Tah, a parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. " (from Wikipedia).…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 16mo, (approx. 4 1/2" wide by 6 7/8" tall) orange cloth covers, 60 pages, six illustrated plates including frontispiece by Richardson Cox. Tipped in publisher's ad for a travel book about Roumania preceeding front free endpaper. Also contains publsiher's ad preceding frontis. with a list of Doesticks' books. Scattered foxing in text, loose at frontis. Covers have some all-over soil and darkened spine.Witty rejoinder in verse defending rich and fashionable society from the barbs thrown in "Nothing To Do" and "Nothing To Wear." Studio. Cox, Richardson (illustrator).…

8° , Leinen. Condition: Gut. 1. Aufl. 60 Seiten, Abb. Einband etw. fleckig, Ecken bestoßen, Papier leicht braunfleckig. Erstauflage. - Pseudonym: Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick. Klarname: Mortimer Neal Thomson (1831 - 1875). Erstveröffentlichung seines Buches 'Nothing to say.': 1857. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 125. …

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First Edition. 330 pp. Several lithograph illustrations. Octavo. Cloth fading. Occasional foxing and spotting, owner mark to front free endpaper, mild toning. Good+ Publisher's blindstamped cloth, spine stamped in gilt.

12mo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v] vi-viii [ix] x-xi [xii-xiii] xiv-xxiv] [25-27] 28-264 + 10 pages of publisher's ads followed by a blank leaf, flyleaves at front and rear, Illustrations "interpolated" by John M'Lenan, original decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, blue coated endpapers. First edition. A classic of early American humor, including numerous silhouette-like illustrations by McLenan, also well known as a comic draftsman. "His work will bear comparison with the best of his time." - Hamilton 1063. Doesticks was a national figure before the publication of this parody in verse which had a tremendous sale and considerably enhanced his reputation. "With this book-length mock-heroic, precipitated by the wave of interest in Longfellow's HIAWATHA, he achieved a national hit, taking hits at American follies, especially American love of money. Although it was probably begun as a parody, it soon achieved independent position on its own merits as social satire . The Ring Lardner of his day, he brought to American humor terse, vigorous, quick moving phases and vivid slang, and became the most popular American humorist writing in the period before that of Charles Farrar Browne." - DAB. BAL 20092 (state A of the advertisements, no priority established). Harris Collection Catalogue, p. 284 (recording a later printing). A early copy with contemporary gift inscription dated 3 May 1856 (the month of publication) on the front flyleaf. A fine copy. A lovely copy of a somewhat uncommon book rarely found in such spectacular condition. (#148175).…

First Edition. 12mo, pp. 60. Six engravings by Richardson-Cox after drawings by John McLen. Red cloth, blind-stamped with gilt lettering. donor's presentation on blank, owner's bookplate on pastedown. Cover little worn at the extremities of the spine, some foxing throughout, o/w VG. BAL 20094. M. Stern, "Imprints on History," p.194. Thomson was offered $1 per line by Carleton for this parody of "Nothing to Wear." The company profited immensely from this effort and it turned the company toward the publication of American humor. Richardson-Cox (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Nothing To Say By Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.