A House-Boat on the Styx. Being some account of the divers doings of the associated shades by Bangs, John Kendrick - 1896

New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1897. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4400 shelf. Compact 6.75" high x 4.5" wide. Gold, black & red-stamped partly waterstained slightly discolored olive cloth. Inked name FEP, clean text. With uncredited Peter Newell b/w artwork; ads. Solid.

New York NY: Harper & Brothers. 1895. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Foxing on endpapers. Previous owner's name. ; B&W Illustrations; 171 pages .

New York NY: Harper & Brothers. 1903. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Owner embossed. Spine weak; B&W Illustrations; 171 pages .

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1896. ........ Cloth. 12mo., 171 pp., RUBBED .

New York [and] London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Original pictorial cloth stamped in gold, black, red and green. Illustrated with 24 plates by Peter Newell. A nice early copy. Very good+.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Harper & Brothers, New York and London: 1897., 1897 pp. viii, 171, (4)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus frontis and full page plates. 8vo. Original full gold decorated pictorial green cloth binding. Spine dust spotted otherwise a nice copy. HUMOR 1 0.0. Hardcover.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Hardcover. Good condition; pictorial front board stained. . Peter Newell. 171p., illus.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1896. Near Fine condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Front cover and spine stamped in green, red, black and gold (figures in silhouette walking toward a red-roofed boat). White laid endpapers. Illustrated with 24 plates by Peter Newell (including, Wellington Pulls Bonaparte's Chair From Under Him). A classic of humorous repartee [dialogue invented by Bangs] among several of history's immortals including Shakespeare, Raleigh, Blackstone, Cassius, Demosthenes, Confucius, Charon, and Doctor Samuel Johnson. Original olive-green pictorial cloth. Clifford 9:71; Newell's fifth book (Bolton p. 113); BAL 726; Wright (III) 272; AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS (Jacob Blanck, 1942), p. 39; HIGH SPOTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, p. 86 (Merle Johnson); Bleiler, THE GUIDE TO SUPERNATURAL FICTION 89; Bleiler (1978), p. 15; Hubin (1994), p. 46; Reginald 00829.. First Printing of the First Edition.… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Newell, Peter. viii, 171pp + 4pp of publisher's advertisements. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gold, black, and red on the front panel and the spine panel. Signed by Peter Newell on the verso of the title page. Frontispiece and twenty-three illustrations by Peter Newell. Some fading to the spine panel, small spot to cloth on the front panel and to the lower corner of the last two leaves. A very good copy. BAL 726. In Bleiler, 1978, p. 14. Wright III.272. ; 12mo; Signed by Illustrator.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. First edition. 24 full page illustratons by Peter Newell. 8vo, original green cloth with pictorially decorated in colours and lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. viii,171,4 ads. A fine copy. The firstof two satirical novels that has brings together some of the great characters of history on a house-boat down the River Styx. Holmes is the leader of a diverse group which includes Queen Elizabeth, Captain Kidd, Noah, Christopher Marlowe, Hamlet and Caesar.