KIT BAM'S ADVENTURES; OR, THE YARNS OF AN OLD MARINER ... Illustrated

by George Cruikshank by Mary Cowden Clarke

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, MDCCCLVI 1856 . Small octavo, pp. i-v vi 7 8-360, four inserted plates with illustrations by George Cruikshank, original pictorial cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. Kit Bam is a retired sailor who tells wild yarns every afternoon to two young teenagers, Fanny and Dick, breaking off at the approach of night, just as

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