THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT; Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. By John Kendrick Bangs / Illustrated By Peter Newell
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. Peter Newell. First American Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, olive cloth with gilt titles & device on spine; illustrated with B&W frontispiece of Shylockian pirate (with tissue guard) & 7 B&W plates; top page edges gilt [t.e.g.]; [xiv] + 204 pages, [no ads]. Fine. Item #7642
Scarce Early Sherlock Holmes' parody, illustrated and dedicated to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
John Kendrick Bangs (1862 – 1922) was a prolific American author, humorist, editor and satirist.
This is the standalone sequel to A House-Boat On The Styx featuring the "Associated Shades", the ghosts of famous literary characters. Originally the "Associated Shades" was an exclusive men's club in Hades, whose members were the shades of famous people, including Adam and Baron Munchausen but primarily historical writers: Homer, Confucius, Shakespeare, president Walter Raleigh, Johnson and Boswell, and many others. All four books by Bangs were illustrated by Peter Newell.
Peter Newell (1862 – 1924) was an American artist and writer. He created picture books and illustrated new editions of many children's books.
Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Scribner's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and other publications. He later wrote and illustrated several popular children's books, such as Topsys and Turvys (1893), a collection of poems and images which could be viewed upside-down or right-side-up.
Solid clean copy with unfoxed Peter Newell illustrations. Slight crinkle lower edge of frontispiece. Several pages so new they haven't been cut and opened. Archival plastic added. BAL 731; Bleiler, 1978, p.16. Hubin, 1994, p.46.
Price: $95.00