Aphorisms Of the Three Threes

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1887. Hardcover. 47p., original brown cloth boards, illustrations and titling in gilt, third edition, boards heavily soiled foxed, and damp stained, resulting on discoloration, head of spine slightly chipped, pages browning, damage does not migrate onto pages, pencil notation on free endpaper, some pencil marginalia throughout. Edward Townings was a playwright, novelist, and… Read more about this item

Chicago: Charles H. Kerrr & Co., 1887. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First printing. This copy was owned by noted children's author Eugene Field, whose bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. The boards are stained and oxidized. Worn at the spine ends and corners. The leaves are lightly… Read more about this item

Mid-Continent Publishing, 1892. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 47 pp. A collection of 210 aphorisms uttered by the members of a small south side club called 'The Three Threes', an association of nine well known business and professional gentlemen of Chicago, who dine together, at stated intervals, in the club rooms of a… Read more about this item

Chicago IL: Charles H. Kerr and Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Cover shows light general wear. Front free endpaper missing resulting in looseness in front hinge. Otherwise page block is tight and clean. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 38 pages .

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1887. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 47 pages, 210 aphorisms, 12mo, brown cloth, gilt figures front cover, top edge gilt, beveled edges. Very good, spine ends/corner tips worn, paper lightly toned; no dust jacket. The contents are mostly made up of utterances of the members of a small south side Chicago club called The Three… Read more about this item

Chicago IL: Mid-Continent Publishing Co, 1892. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. 47 pages. inscribed by the author on third white page. Edward Ownings Towne was involved in the Eugene Debs conspiracy trial. From the introduction "...is contents, for the most part, are made up of the utterances of themembers of a small south side… Read more about this item