Chinatown Ballads by Irwin, Wallace - 2012-08-31

Duffield & Company, 1906-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Spine,cover and edges shows tanning and wear. Writing on front page. Pages shows minor tanning. Few pages shows water damage.

New York: Duffield & Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. E.C. Peixotto. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean front paneled but a bit toned, fine red lettering and red, green and tan illustration, duotone illustration pasted on, barely abraded. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Rough-cut fore- and bottom-edges. Fine black-and-white engraving at frontis, printed on high-gloss paper, nine additional glossy black-and-white illustrations from drawings by E.C. Peixotto. Wallace Irwin (March 15, 1875 – February 14, 1959) was, according to his Wikipedia entry, "an American writer of humorous sketches, light verse, screenplays, short stories, novels, nautical lays, aphorisms, journalism, political satire, lyrics for Broadway musicals, and the libretto for an opera," and also wrote mystery novels. [1] 81 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or… Read More

New York: Duffield & Company, 1906. Hardcover. Good. 81 p. 20 cm. B&w line drawings. Tan cloth with red lettering, green dragon, brown illustration. Some soiling to cloth. Corners a little worn. Dampstained rear endpapers. Roughened text edge. Last couple of pages are chipped and torn at edges, not affecting text.

NY 1906 first edition (stated) Duffield. Thin small octavo hardcover. Picture of two Chinese children mounted on front board panel. 81p. Poetry. Numerous illustrations. Bookplate of Lillie & Arthur Mayer. Hinges not cracked and text clean; cover soiled and a bit worn. Good. .

New York: Duffield & Company. Very Good. 1906. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated with eight glossy black and white illustrations from drawings by E. C. Peixotto. This book is in Very Good condition and was possibly issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are generally clean and bright. This book appears to be lacking a front endpaper. "Irwin often wrote under a pseudonym or presented himself as the editor, translator, or sardonic discoverer of works by others. His Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr. Purports to be his translation from a language he calls “Mango-Bornese”. Irwin’s most sustained impersonation began in 1907 with the serialization of his Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy in Colliers magazine. He wrote in a stereotypical fractured English in the persona of a thirty-five-year-old “boy” Hashimura Togo. The fourth installment of the series, entitled “Yellow Peril”,… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

New York:: Duffield,, 1906.. Hardcover first edition -. Good only in illustrated beige cloth - missing front endpaper, some edge tears to pages, other wear. . First printing. Stereotypical ballads depicting Chinese American life in San Francisco's Chinatown - but these also deal with some very real events - the bubonic plague which hit San Francisco in 1900 (and which first affected Chinatown) and the earthquake of 1906. Illustrated with eight glossy plates from drawings by E.C. Peixotto. 81 pp.

New.

New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.