Streeter N R Compiler (5 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1889; New York; green cloth covered boards with gold titles; edge are worn and covers are rubbed; surface scuffs; boards showing through at the corners; plastic mylar jacket; interior pages are spotted throughout; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; 72 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. [ii], 72pp [joint lightly exposed at rear - still fairly tight; old pencil ownership on front free endpaper; cover gilt a little dulled] Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Frontispiece portrait (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Almost Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Bright green cloth with beveled boards and gold lettering/printing on cover 72 pp. Decorated end-papers, frontispiece with tissue guard. Minor bumping to top/bottom of spine and small cloth chip to spine bottom otherwise very clean and bright, probably never read. Why this little book was published: "Having travelled through all the States and Territories of the Union; crossed the continent by the four different routes, and tried the pleasures of the coast steamers on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, I have formed many pleasant acquaintances with "Knights of the Grip" in different parts of the country. And having something of a reputation as a natural reader and impersonator, I have often been called upon in Pullman cars, hotel parlors and other places, to furnish something in the way of entertainment for the "boys." In many cases I have been asked for copies of selections which I have given and sometimes have written copies in answer to such requests." Clean, tight, and complete. None (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth over bevelled boards, bright pictorial giltstamping in shape of "grip" (traveling salesman's suitcase). 72pp. Frontispiece (tissue guard present), decorative endpapers. Very good. Some funky "flecking" of the cloth , mainly around edges of front board; single 3" archivally closed tear on rear flyleaf. Overall a tight, clean, nice first edition of this unusual anthology of poems by and about the life of the travelling salesman. Contributors include Ella Wheeler Wilcox, John Hay, James Whitcomb Riley and "Captain Jack" Crawford. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 12mo, green cloth, gilt decorated The first gem is, "What Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says of the 'Boys'." Includes "The Old Man and Jim" by Jas. W. Riley [Russo p.48], G.A.R. gems.