HANS BREITMANN'S PARTY. WITH OTHER BALLADS
by LELAND, Charles Godfrey
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- first
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About This Item
1868. [LELAND, Charles Godfrey]. HANS BREITMANN'S PARTY. WITH OTHER BALLADS. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, [1868]. First edition of the first collection of Leland's very popular, humorous, Hans Breitmann ballads. 32 pp. Octavo, 8.5 by 5.75 in., paper wrappers (BAL 11554) - only this copy lacks the upper wrapper. Ex library, with two small stamps on verso of the title-page and no other marks. Title-page and lower wrapper are dust soiled; otherwise it is clean within. A fragile format in very good condition overall, but it is offered as is due to the missing wrapper. Leland's comic creation, Hans Breitmann, is "a robust, beer-guzzling, giant of a man" who speaks heavily German-accented English, whose life is full of adventure and is one big "barty" (that is, party). From his initial appearance in Graham's Magazine in May 1857, appreciation and demand for Hans Breitmann poems and stories grew until they were collected in pamphlets - of which this is the first - and carried forward in a series of books that enjoyed enormous popular and critical success throughout the last half of the nineteenth century in the United State and England, and even Germany. Admirers included James Russell Lowell, William Dean Howell, and Leslie Stephens. (ANB Online).
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- Seller
- Boston Book Company (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 88506
- Title
- HANS BREITMANN'S PARTY. WITH OTHER BALLADS
- Author
- LELAND, Charles Godfrey
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1868
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Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
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Established in 1979, Boston Book Company offers rare and interesting books in a broad range of subjects. Our areas of particular expertise: Japanese artist books of all eras, East Asian art in general, photographica, local history, women's books, English and American literature..
We are always eager to learn something new.... Every collector brings a novel approach to our shared love of books.
Welcome!
Helen Kelly
Charles Vilnis
David Fredette
James Desrosiers
Elizabeth Fragala
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- Wrappers
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- First Edition
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...