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Paul Elder, 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Wear to corners. .

12mo in illustrated boards. 79 pp. Color frontispiece plus four color plates. VG. Light wear and soiling to boards. Binding is strong. Interior is pristine. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-06-29. Paperback. Good.

New York: Paul Elder & Company, 1907. First Edition. Illustrated boards. Very Good/Custom Clear Mylar. 79 pages. Illustrated including a frontispiece and several plates in color by Merle Johnson. The Tomoye Press. 5" x 7 7/8". Paper-backed illustrated boards. A series of "yarns" or very short stories, including firefighting and baseball. Published by San Francisco bookseller and publisher Paul Elder, who had recently partnered with the Twentieth Century Press to form The Tomoye Press (which included John Henry Nash), and moved to New York after the 1906 San Francisco eathquake and fire had destroyed Elder's bookshop and press there. Alas, the experience proved costly, requiring Elder to move back to San Francisco and retire from publishing in 1917. Elder's bookshop, however, remained a San Francisco institution for many years thereafter. Some edgewear and soiling, and evidence of a sticker removal on the back cover; still a Very Good or better copy, now in a custom, clear mylar protective jacket.… Read More

San Francisco & N.Y.: Paul Elder & Co, 1907. First edition, 8vo, v & 79pp., 5 full-page color illustrations, 1/4 bound in yellow paper, some chipping along edges, over-all a good copy.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

San Francisco / New York: Paul Elder & Company, 1907. Very good in good jacket.. First edition of this San Francisco-published collection of comic stories and tall tales, dedicated to Baron Munchausen and assorted other famous Liars of history. Published by San Francisco bookseller Paul Elder and printed by the Tomoye Press only a year after the Great San Francisco Earthquake. Quite scarce in the original dust jacket. 7.75'' x 4.75''. Original yellow pictorial boards. In original dust jacket. Illustrated by Johnson with frontispiece and plates in color. 79, [1] pages. Jacket toned, with some faint staining to spine; small tears and chipping to edges with one larger chip to rear panel. Light soil and bumping to boards.