THE JINGO

by George Randolph Chester

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1912 . Octavo, pp. 1-8 1-393 394 , eleven inserted plates with illustrations by F. Vaux Wilson, original decorated blue-gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind. First edition. Lost race with satirical elements; shipwrecked American lands on island populated by classical Greeks; modern innovations, and complications, ensue. A variant on Twain's

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