Bill Nye's Remarks by Nye, Bill; Nye, Edgar W - 1891

Chicago: Thompson & Thomas Pub. Very Good. 1891,verso. First Edition?. Hardcover. 6x9" squarish. VERY GOOD CONDITION, Paper tanning, not brittle..Name ep "Frank McBride Kittrell from Papa and Mamma Dec 25, 1903"...bright Clean Covers green cloth with clean gold spine & cover titles & standing man ilust.. White endpapers.. ; 504pg..THICK pages; Last Century, Americana Humor .

Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1900. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good. Bill Nye, one of the preminent American humorists of the 19th century, was a lawyer and journalist, who became nationally known after he founded the "Laramie Boomerang" in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1881. Today, Nye would rank with humorists such as Art Buchwald, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor to name a few. "Remarks" is 504 pages of short, one or two-page essays or newspaper columns on all manner of subjects seen from Nye's sardonic perspective, interspersed with over 150 illustrations by J.H. Smith. First Edition, Later Printing. 6 1/2 x 8 3/4 inchese. Blue cloth boards with black and gold lettering and black and gold pictorial design on front cover. Boards show some minor rubbing and shelf wear but hinges are intact, corners unbumped. Front interior hinge cracked and beginning to loosen, rear interior hinge cracked, still tight. Text block binding intact and tight. Text block edges… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: F. T. Neely, 1886. Book. Illus. by Illustrated by J. H. Smith. Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. G+/none, used hc, 504pp. Gilt decorated green cloth over boards with black and gilt text on upper and gilt text on spine; edge wear; frayed tips; shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Decorative end papers. Interior pages clean, unmarked; age-toned. Binding is tight..