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The Maxims of Methuselah, Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his None Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's coming of Age I by Burgess, Gelett - 1907

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The Maxims of Methuselah, Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his None Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's coming of Age I by Burgess, Gelett - 1907

The Maxims of Methuselah, Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his None Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's coming of Age I

by Burgess, Gelett

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New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. Book. Illus. by Fancher, Louis D.. Very Good -. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 108pp. Brown paper covered boards, green cloth spine; rubbed with paper loss at corners; light edge wear. Name in pencil on end paper. Humerous advice on women, in biblical form. 4 color illustrations; pages bordered with rust colored art nouveau decorations..
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  • Illustrator Fancher, Louis D.
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  • Book Condition Used - Very Good -
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1907
  • Keywords HUMOR ADVICE FICTION ILLUSTRATED ILLUSTRATIONS
  • Size 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall

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The Maxims of Methuselah : Being the Advice Given By the Patriarch in His Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to His Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age in Regard To Women

by Gelett Burgess

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1907. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Louis D. Fancher. Fine condition. Hardcover, no DJ, 108 pages. Binding clean, square & glossy w/ little to no wear- bit of age toning on back cover- minor. Striking Art Nouveau cover & text illustrations & page borders by Louis D. Fancher- all in excellent condition. Green spine.Text is tight, bright, clean, unmarked. NO hinge splits, NOT ex library. Excellent copy, remarkably well preserved. ***Reliable, fast! (33)
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by Gelett Burgess

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. Hardcover. VG-. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Louis D. Fancher. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Pictorial paper boards with cloth spine. Copyright October, 1907. All text pages show decorated borders. Original owner gift inscription on front end page, no other handwriting noted. No torn or loose pages. Exterior boards show edge and corner bumping and chipping. Brown stain on front board, just below the title. Book condition graded as very good minus. See photos.
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The Maxims of Methuselah. Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age: In Regard to Women

by Gelett Burgess, Frank

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Louis D. Fancher. Binding holding but front hinge is cracked. Pages clean, tanned. Pictorial cloth over boards is tanned, with overall shelf wear and light edgewear. ; Satire by American humorist with art nouveau illustrations. 7.25" tall; 108 pages.
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Fifth printing. 108pp. Illustrations, decorations, and cover design by Louis D. Fancher. Very good with rubbing, worn edges, and spotting on the front board.
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The Maxims of Methuselah: Being the Advice Given by the Patriarch in His Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to His Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age, in Regard to Women

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The Maxims of Methuselah being the Advice Given By the Patriarch in His Nine Hundred Sixty Ninth Year to His Great grandson at Shem's Coming of Age in Regard to Women.

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New York: Frederick A Stokes Company, 1907. 108pp, ills. Or pictorial papered boards with green cloth spine. Some wear to boards, pencilled writing on front free endpapers, several prev owners names. Attractive border decorations and several illustration in the Art Nouveau style. A humorous collection of 313 'parables' about women purportedly attributed to Methuselah. Not entirely politically correct.. First Edition in Book Form. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Fancher, Louis D.. 12mo.
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THE MAXIMS OF METHUSELAH; Being advice given by the patriarch...to his grandson... in regard to women

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NY: Stokes, 1907. First Edition. Louis D. Fancher. Small 8vo, pp. 108. Illustrated and decorated by Louis D. Fancher. Paper over boards, with cloth spine. VG; pieces of worn dj laid in. Johnson p. 77.
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THE MAXIMS OF METHUSELAH; Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age / IN REGAARD TO WOMEN / By Gelett Burgess . . . / With Illustrations, Decorations, and Cover Design by Louis D. Fancher

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. First Edition. Cloth and pictorial boards. Very Good/None. Louis D. Fancher. 12mo (7 1/8" x 5"), green backstrip and pictorial boards depicting a Art Nouveau bearded old man / Methuselah, illustrated with frontispiece and three full-page plates and decorative pages by Louis D. Fancher, Introduction by the humorist Burgess (19pp), 108 decorative pages by Fancher with Ra-wings on top and two Egyptian lightly clad women flanking each page. Frank Gelett Burgess (1866 - 1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse. <br/><br/>These Maxims are light-hearted spoofs and questionable "biblical" advice about women presented in an attractive format.<br/><br/>Very Good Condition overall. Tight, clean copy with… Read More
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MAXIMS OF METHUSELAH being the advise given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Sham's coming of age in regard to Women, The.

by Burgess, [Frank] Gelett 1866-1951

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, October, 1907. Illustrated by Frontis & 3 plates (collated), red page frame illustration throughout and cover design by Louis D. Fancher (1884-1944). First thus edition. c. 1903-1907. Illustrated paperboards backed with olive green cloth. 8vo. pp. 108. Very Good/Lacks jacket. Nice clean copy with partially restored cover and an applied proprietary sealant. No writing or ownership. Herein lies 21 humorous Maxims and concordance on women from the oldest recorded man of 969 years in biblical form from the Boston born Goops and Purple Cow guy..
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THE MAXIMS OF METHUSELAH: BEING ADVICE GIVEN BY THE PATRIARCH IN HIS NINE HUNDRED SIXTY AND NINTH YEAR TO HIS GREAT GRANDSON AT SHEM'S COMING OF AGE IN REGARD TO WOMEN

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New york: Frederick A. Stokes. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. THE MAXIMS OF METHUSELAH: BEING ADVICE GIVEN BY THE PATRIARCH IN HIS NINE HUNDRED SIXTY AND NINTH YEAR TO HIS GREAT GRANDSON AT SHEM'S COMING OF AGE IN REGARD TO WOMEN By Gelett Burgess; Frederick A. Stokes Company. New York, NY. 1907. This book is hard-bound in pictorial boards with a green spine. Wear to the corners and spine ends. The binding is solid and tight. The contents are bright and clean with a few illustrations throughout. First Edition, illustrated in colors. .
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