Item #1947 Eli Perkins (At Large): His Sayings and Doings. Melville D. Landon, pseud. Eli Perkins.
Eli Perkins (At Large): His Sayings and Doings

Eli Perkins (At Large): His Sayings and Doings

New York: J. B. Ford & Company, 1875.

Uncle Consider. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/8". 248pp, plus 18pp ads. Presumed first. Red cloth over boards, stamped in black to upper board and spine. Heavy wear to binding, with heavy edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed to boards, chipping to head and tail of spine, heavy scattered rubbing, and heavy soiling. Previous owner's inked note to front free endpaper. Occasional smudge to pages, else clean and unmarked. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout by "Uncle Consider" after models by "those designing young men," Nast, Darley, Fredericks, Eytinge, White, Stephens, and others. Good. Item #1947

Price: $12.00

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