Danny's Own Story by Marquis, Don - 1912

Doubleday, Page & Company. Trade Paperback. Very Good/None.

IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. Danny is the baby in a basket who was left on the doorstep and found by the couple, Hank and Elmira Walters. Their long wait of finally having a baby has been fulfilled. They welcomed the little baby boy and fight every day on what name will they call the baby. After 18 years, when Danny and his foster father Hank had heated arguments, Danny disappointedly leaves home and meets Dr. Kirby, a bottler and supplier of the miracle elixir, Siwash Indian Sagraw. Several years have passed and Danny strays with no direction, from Illinois to Indiana to Ohio, returning to Illinois, then to Tennessee and goes south, at times accompanied with Dr. Kirby, but mostly traveling on his own. He experienced working as a circus man, feral from Borneo, or Patagonian cannibal, at times just lounging anywhere, and all the time feeling inseparable with Dr. Kirby, seems like it is his destiny. In the end, like in many humorous stories, all troubles are relinquished as he finds true… Read More

Paperback. Like New.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. First Edition . Hardcover. Very good with no dust jacket. Front and rear hinges are cracked, although book is still fairly tight. The green cloth is just a little soiled. White lettering with illustration pasted on the front board. White lettering on spine just slightly flaked. Illustrations, including frontispiece and front board, by E. W. Kemble. The author's first book.

Paperback / softback. New.

Doubleday Page, 1912. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In green cloth with pictorial label on front board. Slight darkening to rear board along spine and couple white spots..

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial olive cloth binding with paper art plate discreetly ex-library with minimal stamps & markings; binding rubbed at extremities, slightly cocked; spine ends, corners abraded; backstrip scuffed; front hinge, a few points in textblock cracked; a few leaves bent at corner tips; leaf edges, endpapers foxed/smudged, else a clean copy, with bright, clear ils. No dj. ; Great b&w ils. by E.W. Kemble; author's first book.; 12mo; 333 pages .

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Author's first book, in dialect. 16 "humorous" illustrations by E. W. Kemble with pictorial front board. Green cloth. Hinges starting, else good. No former owner marks. Context: Marquis' most famous work features a cockroach named Archie.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.