Vice Versa
Anstey, F.
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Add to basketSold by Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
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Add to basketAnstey, F. [pseudonym of T. Anstey Guthrie]. Vice Versa: Or, a Lesson to Fathers. New York: George Munro, Publisher, 17 to 27 Vandewater Street, October 25, 1882. . Vol. LXX, number 1415 of the publisher's daily Seaside Library subscription series ($36 per year or 20 cents per issue). Tabloid-sized (22 x 32 cm), pp. [1-3] 4-44 [45-52: ads, including list of other titles in this series]. Printed in triple columns. Original yellow decorative wrappers with advertisements on front, back and inner covers. Pretty ragged at edges, especially spine, with numerous edge tears, but well printed on good paper and safe to handle and read. #1416. $45. This edition, appearing less than a month after the first US edition from Appleton is -- for what it's worth -- a good deal harder to find having had a more ephemeral binding. "The first and most popular of Anstey's fantasies featuring the disruption of Victorian bourgeois society by anarchic magic. Here the Garuda stone switches the personalities of a smug businessman and his scamp of a son. Anstey gleefully puts the father through merry hell before acknowledging that order must, after all, be restored. Very funny, making clever use of the author's own experiences at a minor prep school." -- Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-8. "In the Dickensian tradition, apparently partly autobiographical in personalities and situations described. While it is partly a situation comedy, it also satirizes heavy fathers, ineffectual teachers, and hot-tempered, flagellating schoolmasters . Long, fully-developed, with, of course, a period flavor, this is one of the great fantasy classics." -- Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 23.
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