Books & Publications

23-1. A 1776 Saur “Gun-Wad” Bible.

One of the more storied printed works of early America, its  legacy imbued with the heady days of 1776, the Saur Bible -  known folklorically as the Gun-Wad Bible: Biblia, Das ist:  Die ganze Göttliche Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen  Testaments..., printed by Christoph Saur, Germantown  (Pa.), 1776. The first Bible printed in America using  American-cast type – and, by virtue of its date, the first  Bible printed and sold in the newly-established United  States using American-cast type. Third edition (the first  having been printed - with German-made type - by Saur’s  father.) The Saur family comprised one of the most  important printeries in eighteenth-century America.  Original binding, venerable deep chocolate calf over  wooden boards, 8 x 10½, 992 + 277 pp., the latter preceded  by second, internal title page, also in imposing German  Blackletter and repeating the 1776 imprint, Das Neue  Testament unfers Herrn und Jesu Christi, nach der  Deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers.... With 2 blank  endleaves at front, 2 at rear, and (3) pp. Register (index);  no blank leaf between title page and Genesis, however it  was likely bound without one. Title page in black. Six plain  spine panels separated by raised hubs, both metal clasp  fittings present, leather straps perished. Front board and leaves through p. 8 detached; boards  with scratches, but uncleaned, its original finish bearing an alluring dull porcelain-like  patination; fore-edges with mottled toning nearly matching boards; separated leaves variously  tattered and worn at edges, approximately first and last 75 leaves with graduated  waterstaining from prominent to light, the balance of text essentially unaffected; two  consecutive leaves shaken but still holding; most leaves characteristically foxed to whole-  wheat tone with cinnamon margins, else the still-bound block surprisingly tight, and generally  entirely satisfactory. This 1776 Saur Bible quickly became known as the Gun-Wad Bible,  arising from the lore that Redcoats variously used unbound copies for packing their muskets,  horse bedding, and tinder during the Battle of Germantown the following year. While some  later scholars have questioned the details, the legend remains. Evans 14663. With modern  copy of text from “Bibles, Bullets and Bibliographers” chapter on the Gun-Wad Bible’s  colorfulness and inconsistencies, in America’s First Bibles, by Edwin A.R. Rumball-Petre,  1940. Dr. John Wright, Early Bibles of America, pp. 46-47, located 32 copies as of 1894 (the  offered example certainly not among them). A fresh discovery in Pennsylvania Dutch country,  new to the market. The stark originality of this example, with its honest wear exuding  character, render it eminently suitable for proud display. Core Americana. $2,500-3,500  

23-2. By the Pennsylvania Dutch Purveyor of “Magical Healings and Charms.”

Excessively rare Pennsylvania Dutch imprint, Das Evangelium Nicodemus, oder, Gewisser  Bericht von dem Leben, Leiden und Sterben unsers Heilandes Jesu Christi..., by the  fascinating Johann George Homan (Reading, Pa.). Printed by C.A. Bruckman, Reading, 1819.  Subtitled, roughly, “...the Twelve Tribes of Jews and even more beautiful pieces...together with  Theotesius from which a priest and scribe were the Jews: Mr. Philippi Kegelii Notes to the  spiritual guide for the heavenly fatherland, & c....” (“...und von de [sic] Zwölf Stämmen der Juden und sonst noch mehr schöne Stücke,  wo das mehrste von den Evangelisten nicht beschrieben worden ist, beschrieben von Nicodemus...: nebst Theotesius, aus welcher auch  ein Priester und Schriftgelehrter der Jüden war: ....”). 4½ x 7¼, 302 pp., brown boards with polished calf spine and tips. Inscription  dated 1819 on page facing title, plus 1846 and mid-20th century inscriptions on front flyleaf. A fascinating “German-American printer,  bookseller, and compiler of collections of herbal remedies, magical healings, and charms,” Homan (also spelled Hohman) “practiced  and instructed in the arts of folk magic and folk religion which became known as pow-wow...”--wikipedia. Covers scuffed, imparting  rather pleasing abstract tortoise shell appearance, tips and hinges worn, some waterstaining of blank endpapers, text uniformally toned  and mottled to mocha, understandable wear, but tight and generally good plus. Exuding considerable patina. Early American Imprints,  Second Series: 47208. No examples on abebooks – in fact only four, later books by him are presently offered (one at 6,000.00).  WorldCat locates only two holdings of this edition (Yale and the German Society of Penna.), one with “mutilation” and lacking pages,  the other with many fewer pages. $425-575 

23-3. Religion in Nineteenth-Century America.

Juvenile booklet, “The Bible Boy; being the History of a lad who was reputed to have got the whole Bible by heart,” with “An Address to  a Child, on Leaving a Sunday School,” by “A Minister.” Printed by George Goodwin & Sons, Hartford, 1821, one of his “Reward Books  for Sabbath Schools...to direct the Youthful Mind to the ‘fear of the Lord.’” 3½ x 5½, 34 pp. Signed on title page by young student  Elijah G. Belding. Small woodcut on cover, two illus. inside. Much spine and corner wear, foxing, but satisfactory and very scarce. •  With, carte photo-based portrait of celebrated evangelist Dwight L. Moody. Very light patination, else fine and uncommon. $60-80 (2  pcs.)

23-4. A Celebrated Classic - in Original Full Vellum.

Substantial tome in original full vellum, on Philo Judæus of Alexandria, the Jewish sage and contemporary of Jesus who lived in the  then-Roman province of Egypt. “Philo represents the apex of Jewish-Hellenistic syncretism. His work attempts to combine Plato and  Moses into one philosophical system”--Edward Moore, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Entitled, Philonis Judæi, Omnia Qvæ  Extant Opera, “ex accuratissima Sigismundi Gelenii... Adriano Turnebo...,” Francofurti: Jeremiah Schrey and Heinrici Joh. Meyeri,  1691. Title page in red and black, with fine copperplate engraving. 8½ x 13¾, 1,200 pp. + notes, Lectori, and index. Occasional  woodcuts and ornaments within text. Mostly parallel-column format, Greek and Latin. Ownership signature of M. Jo(hannes)  Chr(istophorus) Gottleber, 1767, noted German philosopher, classical critic, Biblical scholar, and prolific author; signature in purple  ink of Dr. Hugo Spesner(?), judged c. 1800; bookplate of L.J. Rückert, widely-published Biblical scholar, c. 1850. Scuffing and  superficial discoloration of vellum on front cover, about 30% transfer of brown buckram to back cover, from eons-long storage in a  stack, some fraying at lower rear tip (only), else vellum essentially sound, and binding surprisingly tight; text with moderately light  inverted-triangular waterstain at gutter, diminishing with ascending pages, with moderate darkening at upper portion of vellum spine;  light ½” vertical waterstain at vertical margin all leaves, else internally very good to fine. Brunet IV, 614. Ebert 16714. Fürst III, 88.  Mireille Hadas-Lebel, “Philon d’Alexandrie - Un penseur en diaspora,” Fayard, 2003. Valentin Nikiprowetzky, “Le commentaire de  l’Ecriture chez Philon d’Alexandrie,” Brill, 1977. Sir John Sandys, “A History of Classical Scholarship,” 1915, pp. 185-186. Schoell V, 74,  and other citations. WorldCat locates six examples this edition. An epic work - with noteworthy provenance - cementing the Judeo-  Christian foundation of Western civilization. $475-675 

23-5. A “Toy Book” - with an Early Depiction of Ballplaying.

Charming miniature chapbook, “The Child’s Own Story Book or Simple Tales,” n.d. but attributed as 1840, 2¾ x 4¼, 16 pp., sewn.  Printed by S. Babcock, New Haven, publisher of “Moral, Instructive, and Entertaining Toy Books, beautifully embellished with superior  engravings for the mind and the eye....” Green covers elaborately decorated with typographic rosettes, dragonflies, and ornaments,  framing woodcut of young girl feeding a rooster. Inside, eight woodcuts, mostly full-page, including girls being read “The new book” by  their mother, beneath a shade tree on banks of a gentle river; a dapper gentleman pointing out “The bird’s nest” with his walking stick  to a young boy; two worried boys confronted by an adult over “The broken pitcher”; “The poor old man”; and “The poor boy” walking  shoeless past two well-dressed girls, as other boys play ball in the background. Minor cover toning, very light wear, else uncommonly  fresh and clean, and about fine. Cited in The Babcocks of New Haven by Gagliardi, and more importantly, in Baseball Before We Knew  It: A Search for the Roots of the Game, by David Block, 2006, citing this very early “scene of trap-ball in the background...” (modern  copy accompanies). $140-180

23-6. “Stories about Indians.”

Two items, with quite different perspectives on Indians in antebellum America: Rare juvenile pamphlet, “Stories about Indians,”  printed by Rufus Merrill, Concord, N.H., 1853, 3¾ x 6¼, 24 pp., black on pale pink pictorial wrappers. Title page woodcut of two  Indian families. Numerous woodcuts and decorative initials, including “Indians hunting Buffalo,” Indian village, Pawnee Brave, Indian  Chief, Oregon Indians, Red Jacket Chief, “Indian Council, with white men, making a treaty,” and Indians with bow and arrow and  tomahawk. Multiple mentions of Kennebec Indians (Maine). Stories of Indian gratitude, Indian observation, stratagem, shrewdness,  character, integrity, and politeness. Some cover dust-toning, average handling evidence, minor tip wear, else about V.G. A pleasing and  surprisingly flattering presentation. • With, printed “Message from the President (John Quincy Adams)...Transmitting a copy of a  Treaty with the Creek Nation of Indians...signed at Indian Springs...,” 19th Congress, 1826. 5½ x 8¾, 15 pp. Adams refers to “...an  additional appropriation for the purpose of facilitating the removal of that portion of the Creek Nation which may be disposed to  remove West of the Mississippi....” Denoting the “x” marks of some fifty Indian signatories, including Mad Wolf, Hijo Hajo, Timpoochy  Barnett, Big B.W. Warrior, and Little Prince. Disbound, shaken, foxing, else good plus. $225-275 (2 pcs.) 

23-7. Artwork of old Jamaica.

Unusual bound notebook of original drawings of old “Jamaica, B(ritish) I(ndies),” three in  Waterman blue ink, balance in pencil, most individually dated between Dec. 24, 1903-Mar.  5, 1904, 8 x 10 oblong, 12 leaves bearing 12 sketches and drawings in all; tissue guards.  Several signed “G.L.C.” In pencil: donkey tied to an unattended two-wheel buggy; elaborate  full-sheet depiction of “Brown’s Town, View from parlor window”; “Weston Favel(l),”  showing a high-walled structure surrounded by lush foliage, perhaps named for the ancient  village in England subsumed by Northampton in later times; split view of Montego Bay and  “From Mr. Harrison’s Lodge, Montego Bay”; “Bread Fruit, Montego Bay”; “White flower of  tree”; “Lodgings - Kitchen - Montego Bay, Spanish Times [or Town?]”; and charmingly  styled “Old Bread Fruit Tree, Montego Bay.” In ink: “Malvern,” showing a wooden swinging  gate set in stone walls; “Malvern, Mrs. Lawrence’s Lodgings,” interesting cluster of several  small, steeply-pitched houses and barn-like structures, one with a tall mast, perhaps a  lightning rod; elaborately detailed view of “Malvern, Barn Yard,” showing strong English country architectural influence. Malvern and  Mrs. Lawrence appear conspicuously in period Jamaica handbooks: “Malvern Hill overlooks sixty or eighty miles of coast. One can  stand on the breezy piazza of Mrs. Lawrence’s pleasant home, where well accredited visitors are entertained at moderate price...The  inland view is almost equal to that of the coast...”--The New Jamaica..., 1890, p. 204 (modern copies accompany). Uniform toning,  some folds in tissue guards, minor edge wear, tear at blank edge and tip of last drawing, else V.G., and a splendid portrayal of Jamaican  vistas, some of which endure to some degree. $160-220  

23-8. “The Triumph of Woman” – and Slavery.

A rare item, Poems by Robert Southey, with some of the English language’s paramount prose and poetry, including verse on the horrors  of slavery. “Volume the First,” third ed., Bristol (England), 1799 (complete thusly; volume two was issued separately). Original full calf,  3¾ x 6½, 207 pp. Gift inscription on verso of Contents leaf, “Presented to Sarah Burd by her belov’d Father, 31st July 180” (last digit  of year lacking), her name penned again in flawless script above the book’s first poem, following the prefatory leaf imprinted “The  Triumph of Woman.” Including a suite of six sonnets on life of an African slave, with a sequel poem, “To the Genius of Africa,” and  more. “...Where Gambia to the torches light, Flows radiant thro’the awaken’d night...The Demon Commerce on your shore, Pours all  the horrors of his train...Lo! where the flaming village fires the skies! Avenging Power, awake - arise!...By Afric(a)’s wrongs and  Europe’s guilt...Did then the bold Slave rear at last the Sword Of Vengeance?...its thirsty blade In the cold bosom of his tyrant Lord?  Oh! who shall blame him?...” A footnote refers to British casualties in the West Indies, presumably fighting the slave trade. Title page  with break but no separation at blank upper corner; contents leaf originally folded with five red wax circles by giftgiver, to dramatize  presentation to his daughter, hence lacking 1½ x 1¾ fragment at lower left with loss of text, and smaller corner at upper right, with  other defects, but probably from time of opening by his daughter; front board and leaves through title page detached, about three spine  panels lacking, boards speckled; internally some foxing, other defects, but generally very satisfactory, with touching human - and anti-  slavery - interest. Still a rare item; only one offering on abebooks, a mismatched pair (at 770.00). $190-250 

23-9. Dawn of the American Century.

Pictorial pre-completion “Souvenir of the Panama Canal,” published by I.L. Maduro, Jr., Panama. 8 x 10 oblong, an early edition with  only (30) pp., color covers, with fiery orange sun setting over a jungle stream, bisected by panoramic photograph of Canal’s  construction. Inside, large crisp black-and-white photos on enamel. “As this great undertaking approaches its completion, the  magnitude of the work performed has unfolded...Its strategic value is apparent, and it is hoped that its influence will be for the peace of  the world....” Depicting local Indians, Panama City street scenes, resort-like Canal Administration Building, rail-wheeled motor car of  Chief Engineer, workers’ cemetery, dramatic views of locks nearing completion, “death song of the mosquito” showing sprayer, detailed  topographic “Model of the Panama Canal,” and more. Hinges worn but holding, covers lacking tips, few edge chips, some toning,  soiling, other minor defects, but still good plus. Very scarce thus: all nine examples on abebooks appear to be later printings. The  builders never dreamed that their masterwork would one day be bequeathed to the Chinese. $60-90 

23-10. The Planet Herschel!

First Book in Astronomy, adapted to the Use of Common Schools, by Rev. J.L. Blake, Boston, 1831. 5½ x 8¾, 115 pp. + 1 p.  advertisements, pictorial boards, tan linen spine, steel-engraved plates. Delightful textbook for students, imbuing its astronomical  revelations with theological foundation. Discussions of the then-seven known planets, including Herschel - modern-day Uranus.  “Herschel revolves in an orbit at the chilling distance of 1,800 millions of miles from the sun... It is altogether uninhabitable. The  wisdom and goodness of the Almighty are infinite; it is presumption in man to set bounds to them. It requires no exertion of credulity  to suppose that this planet may be rendered as suitable to intelligent creatures for a residence as the earth....” Lengthy “Description of  the Moon,” including full-page steel-engraved plate of “New and Full Moon,” showing its surface features. “If the Moon be inhabited,  the Creator has undoubtedly fitted the inhabitants to the situation which they occupy....” Discussion of comets, stars, Zodiac,  constellations, meteors, Aurora Borealis, “the equation of time,” and vivid examples involving Columbus, Ben Franklin, and more.  Essentially separated at inner hinges, front outer hinge nearly torn, boards worn, darkened, and waterstained, text with varied foxing,  some protractor depressions in first two plates, waterstaining of last seven leaves and boards, but complete, otherwise very satisfactory,  and charming. $60-80 

23-11. With Black Cover Art and Story Inside.

Children’s book, Queer Adventures by Strange Adventurers, by “Gladys Davidson  and H.M.H.,” illustrations by G.F. Christie and F.S. Silver, published by Frederick A.  Stokes Co., N.Y., and Alf Cooke, Ltd., Leeds and London, (1907), 8½ x 11, (34) pp.,  original plain red linen spine. Pictorial front board, with color cartoon of three black  children, a “conductor,” in striped tophat, wielding baton, another in wig and  dandy’s attire, holding tambourine aloft, the third in sharecropper’s rags playing  banjo, with “Song Down in Dixie” on crudely lettered placard. Inside, traditional  stories in prose and verse, embellished with black-and-white and full-page, full-  color illustrations. “The Barber Man,” “The Pirates,” “The Happy Niggers” (with  full-page color artwork of Uncle Sambo and young Pete playing a one-stringed  fiddle, entertaining visiting white children; “...there is sunshine all day long in uncle  Sambo’s country, called Nursery Land...”), “The London Express,” “A Grand  Procession” (with Jack Horner eating his plum pie), “The Small Bold Army,” “The  Highwayman” (with early reference to “a motor” - an automobile), and “The New Golf Ball.” Understandably with wear, shaken, several  leaves separated but present, inside front and rear hinges reinforced with old red and white labels, front board lacking 1½” triangular  lower right corner, affecting legs of small pixie-like trademark figure; dime-sized rub at 12 o’clock of cover, but still retaining gloss and  strong color, and in all, collectible. WorldCat locates only five examples. Rare. $225-325 

23-12. Molding the Greatest Generation.

Collection of 17 issues of Muscle Builder, Apr. (Vol. I, No. 2), July-Dec. 1924, Jan., Feb., Mar., Nov., Dec. 1925, and Jan.-May 1926. 8½  x 11¾, 48 pp. ea., browntone rotogravure. Published by Bernarr Macfadden, from the early years of his publishing empire, which would  include Physical Culture, True Detective, Photoplay, Liberty, Pageant, and many others. Profusely illustrated articles, with hard-hitting  copy on physical fitness, exercise, body building, athletic competition, health, wrestling, character building, and more. A steady  procession of celebrity athletes in its pages, including Johnny Weismuller, Olympic flyweight champ Fidel La Barba, “thrill-a-minute  stunt-king of the movies” Charles Hutchinson, Jack Dempsey, “The Brown Panther” Harry Wills, Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby (three  photos and article), Charles Atlas, John L. Sullivan, James Corbett, Toto “the world’s funniest clown,” flying daredevil Clyde Pangborn,  et al. Articles include, “The Making of a Man - The Thrilling Adventures of a Boy who Learned that a Man must have Muscle to Make  Good,” “My Muscles Took Me Across the English Channel,” “Back from the Clutches of Death” by “Iron Man of the Movies” Luciano  Albertini, “Muscles in the Movies” by Rudolf Valentino, exciting article by physical instructor to N.Y.P.D., lightweight Sid Ferris with  six-pointed star embroidered on his shorts, the daredevil who climbs the outside of skyscrapers, flyweight Izzy Schwartz in ad (Dec.  1924), “I am the Strongest Woman Alive” (acrobat, weightlifter, and fighter Marta Farra, claiming to lift 3,500 lbs.!), “Benny Leonard’s  First Fight...,” “How I Got Rid of the Nickname ‘Fatty’” by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and others. Unusually well-preserved for the genre,  understandably with scattered minor defects, occasional short tears, and light wear, but in surprisingly sound condition, generally very  good to fine, a few about very fine. Despite their vintage, the writing, of both articles and ads, is arresting and vivid, some of the most  representative of the pulp and popular genre of the first half of the twentieth century. Now rare. • With T.L.S. of Prof. Anthony Barker,  Health and Strength Institute, 110 W. 42 St., N.Y., Apr. 13, 1916, on black and orange pictorial letterhead. “My select gymnasium is the  largest in the U.S....” Lengthy letter, sending thanks for a book order, and describing the Barker Spirometer, to give “the lungs and  other internal organs more room for proper action....” Mailing folds, else V.G. Found with magazines, probably the property of the  letter’s recipient, “Mr. Burke.” $425-625 (18 pcs.) 

23-13. Climate Change in a Premier Scientific Journal – 1668.

Excessively rare group of seven issues of important early scientific “magazine” Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, (Vol. III),  Nos. 34-37, 39, 43, and 44, approximately monthly, Apr. 13, 1668-Feb. 15, 1668/69. Charming imprint, “In the Savoy [London], Printed  by T.N. for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, and are to be sold at the Bell a little without Temple-Bar....” Each 6¼ x 8½, 20-  28 pp., variously, with 2 folding copperplates; last issue with index for 1668. Many major discoveries in science, medicine,  mathematics, travel, and exploration first appeared in the pages of Transactions. In these issues: “...Concerning some Mistakes of a  Book entitled Specimina Mathematica..., especially touching a certain Problem, affirm’d to have been proposed by Dr. Wallis to the  Mathematicians to all Europe, for a solution”; “Account of an Experiment concerning Deafness,” by Dr. William Holder, clergyman,  philosopher, and a founder of Royal Society, known for his work teaching the deaf; “A New Discovery touching Vision, made in  France”; “Some Observations concerning the Comet, that hath lately appeared in forrain parts...”; “An Account of a Controversy betwixt  Stephano de Angelis, and John Baptista Riccioli, concerning Motion of the Earth”; “...The Colour of the Sea, various Plants and Animals  in Jamaica, and other Islands of the Caribes”; “the qualities of Tobacco growing in Nitrous Ground; Hurrican(e)s; a way to make a Boat  ride at Anchor in the main Sea; the effects of the Change of Climate on Human Bodies”; “...the Transfusion of Bloud”; “An Opticall  Experiment ...referring to the Observations about a Blemish in Horse-eyes...”; “...Declination of the Magnetick Needle, and the Tydes”;  “...Empty Tubes serving for a decay’d sight”; letter to Robert Boyle on “...the success of some Experiments of Infusing Medicins into  Humane Veines”; “...Queries about Vegetation”; “Summary Account of the General Laws of Motion by Dr. John Wallis and Dr.  Christopher Wren”; “An Anatomical Account, left by Dr. Harvey, concerning that extra-ordinary Old man, Tho. Parre”; and more.  Contributors in other years included Edmund Halley (its editor by age 29) and Isaac Newton. Two leaves separated but present, some  edge dust- and brown-toning, occasional minor foxing, marginal worming, and other modest defects, else rather fresh, and very good to  very fine. All issues of Philosophical Transactions from these nascent years are elusive: WorldCat locates only a run of Nos. 33-44  (University of Manchester), one No. 35 (Univ. of Miami School of Medicine), one No. 36 (Univ. of Melbourne), one No. 37 (Univ. of  Kansas History of Medicine Library), and one No. 39 (Yale). Probably the largest gathering of these early issues in private hands.  $2900-3900 (7 pcs.)

23-14. An “American-Japanese Comic Opera.”

Very scarce artifact of social history: “Words of the Songs and Choruses of The Little Tycoon, An Original American-Japanese Comic  Opera,” written and composed by Willard Spenser. 1886. 4½ x 7½, 24 pp., black on green wrappers. The play’s characters, capitalizing  on the growing American fascination with Japan, starring Gen. Knickerbocker, Alvin Barry, “a young Wall Street broker, afterward the  Great Tycoon of Japan,” and a “chorus of Japanese, hobgoblins, brigands, tourists, etc.” Short tear at blank edge of cover, trivial  uniform toning, else a fresh copy, in very fine condition. By the first decade of the twentieth century, America’s infatuation would reach  its zenith, Japanese themes even adorning early automobile shows. $60-80 

23-15. MacCabe the Magnificent.

“The Great MacCabe Songster - The Wandering Troubadours,” by Frederic MacCabe, a multitalented star of the stage once known on  both sides of the Atlantic. Colorful cover depiction of a flamboyantly attired entertainer of olde, performing on a Manhattan street  beside a modern flutist dressed in rags, a hole in his shoe, straddling a steamer trunk lettered “A.M. De Witt, Publisher, 38 Rose St.,  N.Y.” 1874. 4 x 6¼, 64 pp., sewn. “Containing the first lot of real new ballads and songs of genuine merit that has ever been  printed...Sung by all the leading singers, at the best places of amusement....” Songs (some with music) include, “Don’t Stay out too late  at Night,” “The Shamrock of Old Ireland,” “My Charley’s in the Key West Fleet,” and more. On p. 64, woodcut of a black in white tie,  offering the publisher’s new “Fun in Black; or, Sketches of Minstrel Life - A Satchel Full of Sable Wit...Wild Wit of Darkey  Professors...Pages of Pithy, Pointed Paragraphs....” Lacking back cover, front cover lacking upper right tip and a fragment at left edge,  few insect spots in center; light nibble at blank bottoms last three leaves, child’s pencil scribble on one page, typical foxing. Else  generally satisfactory, the cover displayable and appealing. Intended as an ephemeral purchase, many such songsters are now  excessively rare. WorldCat locates only one other example (N.Y. Public Library). With modern copy of delightful account describing  MacCabe’s brilliant tactic at Steinway Hall, reserving it for one hundred nights to create a sensation. In his stage show, he portrayed  both the guitar-playing troubadour - and the tramp - shown on the cover of this songster. $140-180 

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