Knickerbocker's History of New York: with Pictorial Pleasantries
by Washington Irving
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Ex-lib with associated flaws and w/out dust jacket, vintage bookplate on backcover Library of William and Mary College. Light brown cloth with lettering in black on front and spine, minor edgewear. Woodprint illustrations and endpapers, Head and tail of cloth spine is moderately worn but all pages intact. Remains of library pocket is on a rear endpage, leaving the rear pastedown flawless.
Synopsis
For the bicentennial of its original publication—the first full-length book from the father of the American short storyIn 1809, New Yorkers were buzzing about a series of classified ads concerning the whereabouts of Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. They were unaware that Washington Irving had invented the man entirely and placed the ads himself. Knickerbocker's purported manuscript, A History of New York, was Irving's own. Told from Knickerbocker's point of view, A History of New York is a chronicle of New York's fifty years under Dutch rule in the 1600s that plays fast and loose with the facts, to uproarious effect. Irving's good-humored spoofing had staying power, and his satire provided the city with its first self-portrait. A History of New York propelled Irving to the heights of literary stardom and even made a little history of its own: New Yorkers are called Knickerbockers to this day.
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- Seller
- Bound2please Books B2plz (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 012124B
- Title
- Knickerbocker's History of New York
- Author
- Washington Irving
- Illustrator
- James Daugherty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co.
- Date Published
- 1930
- Pages
- 427
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Diedrich,comic history, New Amsterdam
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