Nothing to Say: A Slight Slap at Mobocractic Snobbery which has Nothing to Do with Nothing to Wear

Published by Rudd & Carleton, New York, 1857

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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).

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Title
Nothing to Say: A Slight Slap at Mobocractic Snobbery which has Nothing to Do with Nothing to Wear
Author
Doesticks, (P. B. ) , Q. K. Philander (Pseudoynm Of Mortimer Q. Thomson )
Publisher
Rudd & Carleton, New York
Publication year
1857
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition; 1st Printing.

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