Cabbages and Kings

by William Sydney Porter, O. Henry

$225 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

New York: McClure, 1904. 8vo, 344 pp. Original black cloth, stamped in orange, yellow and green. Minor sunning to backstrip, minor edgewear. § First edition of Porter’s first book, in original cloth. A collection of stories of revolution and adventure in Latin America, this book is known as the origin of the term “banana republic.” This book was largely inspired by Porter’s self-imposed exile in Honduras, where he fled after he was

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