Villon the Vagabond
by SKINNER, Charles Montgomery
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Binding a bit scuffed
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
(No date). This "first draft" inscribed: "To Mr. (Herbert F.) Gunnison with the author's best wishes." A printed title page bearing the imprint Eagle Book and Job Printing Department of Brooklyn-New York and the date 1902 states: "This play was acted by the author's brother Mr. Otis Skinner". Otis Skinner, a prominent 19th Century actor, was also the father of the actress Cornelia Otis Skinner. A frontispiece portrait of the author is bound in. Charles Skinner (1852-1907), born in Victor, New York, was editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and wrote a well-regarded study of a former editor/writer there, Walt Whitman - "Whitman As Editor" - which was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1903. Villon the Vagabond was one of his more popular works. He collected and published American Indian myths and legends, as well as works of natural history. Binding a bit scuffed. Original holograph manuscript, 92 pages, folio, rectos only, three quarter morocco & marbled boards. Binding a bit scuffed.
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- Bookseller
- James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23300
- Title
- Villon the Vagabond
- Author
- SKINNER, Charles Montgomery
- Book Condition
- Used - Binding a bit scuffed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- This "first draft" inscribed: "To Mr. (Herbert F.) Gunnison with
- Date Published
- (No date)
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James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
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About the Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Folio
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- Marbled boards
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...