The purple cow!

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonsense verses.

Children's poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Milburn, Charles H.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : [William Doxey, 631 Market St.], [1895]

Notes:

Cover title.

Dedication on t.p. verso: To the readers of "The Lark" who have laughed they knew not why, these inartistic aberrations are gratefully dedicated. Signed Gelett Burgess.

Pictorial self-wrapper stapled.

Includes "The Peculiar history of the Chewing-Gum Man": p. [12-15].

First published separate edition. First state printed in both sides of leaf; second state printed on one side of leaf only, folded. A few copies, for presentation, printed on white laid paper with the illustrations hand-colored by the author.--Cf. Johnson.

First published in "The Lark," vol. 1, no. 1, 1895.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is first state printed on rough Chinese paper on both recto and verso.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Charles H. Milburn.

Culture Class Collection copy has [1] loose leaf featuring a reproduction of the t.p. laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy has [2] catalog descriptions of this item laid in.

Cited in:

Johnson, M. American First Editions, 73

Contains:

Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951. Chewing gum man.

Chewing gum man.

OCLC:

22875108