CONGRESSMAN PUMPHREY THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND

McCUTCHEON, John T.

Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1907

About this Item

Very Good (covers nice with very minor wear; some fading spine; contents clean & tight; chip to corner of rear blank endpaper). A nice copy! 8vo., pictorial red cloth, stamped in white & black; 126 pages First Edition. Signed inscription by McCutcheon of front endpaper: "Yours very truly, John T. McCutcheon." With the armorial bookplate of Frances Pierce Richardson on the front pastedown. John Tinney McCutcheon [1870-1949] was an American newspaper political cartoonist, war correspondent, combat artist, and author who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1931 editorial cartoon, "A Wise Economist Asks a Question," and became known even before his death as the "Dean of American Cartoonists." McCutcheon's cartoons appeared on the front page of the Chicago Tribune for forty years. The book is a fictional journal of entries by a new congressman revealing that the once idealistic firebrand is being unwittingly steered, duped, and bribed by special interest groups.

Seller Inventory # 58423

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CONGRESSMAN PUMPHREY THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND
• Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis
• Publication Date: 1907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: With Cartoons By The Author.
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • AMERICAN LIT.
  • SIGNED
  • EARLY 20TH LIT.
  • FICTION