Dunne Finlay Peter (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. In green cloth with dark green titling, 8vo, 212pp. (light shelfwear to tips and corners, name to endpaper) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. xiii + 75, illus with b&w drawings (no inscriptions).

Full Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full green ribbed cloth with a gilt four leaf clover on the front cover and the spine. mild wear, front board starting, book is slightly cocked. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in GOOD condition. Finley Peter Dunne (July 10, 1867April 24, 1936) was a Chicago-based U.S. author, writer and humorist. He published Mr. Dooley in Peace and War, a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches, in 1898. The fictional Mr. Dooley expounded upon political and social issues of the day from his South Side Chicago Irish pub and he spoke with the thick verbiage and accent of an Irish immigrant. Dunne's sly humor and political acumen won the support of President Theodore Roosevelt, a frequent target of Mr. Dooley's barbs. Indeed Dunne's sketches became so popular and such a litmus test of public opinion that they were read each week at White House cabinet meetings. Peter Finley Dunne was born in Chicago on July 10, 1867. He was educated in the Chicago public schools (graduating from high school last in his class), then began his newspaper career in Chicago as a newspaper reporter/editor for the Chicago Telegram in 1884, at age 17. He was then with the Chicago News from 1884-88, the Chicago Times in 1888, the Chicago Tribune in 1889, the Chicago Herald in 1889, and the Chicago Journal in 1897. Originally named Peter Dunne, to honor his mother, who had died when he was in high school, he took her family name as his middle name some time before 1886, going by PF Dunne, reversed the two names in 1888, for Finley P. Dunne, and later used simply the initials, FP Dunne. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Hard Cover. Second Edition (Printing) of 1898. Very good, slight wear to green cloth cover. Gilt lettering and gilt shamrock on cover. 260pp. (loc x156).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Hard cover, no jacket, in very good condition for its age. From the collection of W.L. Webb, the Guardian's literary editor for many years. General shelf and handling wear, including wear and light blemishes to boards and board edges, and tanning to spine. Tanning and foxing to pageblock, pastedowns, endpapers and page edges. Content is well bound, and likely unread, as a significant number of pages remain uncut. Text and illustrations unmarked. CN. Nicholson, William; Kemble, E.W.; Opper, F. (illustrator). Used.…