THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT

by John Kendrick Bangs, Peter Newell

$50 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First printing. First edition of this comic pastiche, in which a host of ghosts and literary constructs — Shakespeare, Boswell, Socrates, and Sherlock Holmes among them — seek after their house-boat, formerly lost on the River Styx. Very good. Item #52237

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