George Ade; Clyde J. Newman [illus.]

Fables of Slang [With] More Fables [Limited Edition, Signed]

Chicago, IL: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900. Very Good. Item #49745

Chicago, IL: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900. Mixed Editions (see below); two 12mo volumes; uniformly bound in publisher's mustard decorative cloth stamped in blue and teal, top edges gilt; [8],201; [8],218,[6]pp.; black and white illus. throughout. Moderate wear to cloth margins with pinpoint exposure at corners, rear boards a bit soiled, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper of the first volume; overall Very Good and sound. 

The author's two breakthrough volumes collecting together his syndicated pieces of short humor. The first volume, Fables in Slang, has a bookplate signed by the author affixed to front pastedown stating "This Edition is Limited to One Thousand Copies," of which this is no. 238. There is, however, the printing statement on the title page verso "Nineteenth Thousand." The second volume an unsigned first edition.

Price: $150.00