THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT
First edition of this comic pastiche, in which a host of ghosts and literary constructs — Shakespeare, Boswell, Socrates, and Sherlock Holmes among them — seek after their house-boat, formerly lost on the River Styx.
First edition of this comic pastiche, in which a host of ghosts and literary constructs — Shakespeare, Boswell, Socrates, and Sherlock Holmes among them — seek after their house-boat, formerly lost on the River Styx.
Inscribed first edition of this satirical short-story collection with a financial theme, including the eponymous Progressive-Era riff on the classic fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk.
First edition — in the rare original dust jacket — of Bangs's comic fantasy on the afterlife of literary characters and their makers.
Inscribed first edition — presented to American publisher Robert Howard Russell, who issued a number of Bangs's children's books from 1891 to 1902.
Rather scarce first edition of Bangs's double pastiche of Doyle and Hornung, featuring the exploits of Raffles Holmes, offspring of both his namesakes.
First edition of this comic pastiche, in which a host of ghosts and literary constructs — Shakespeare, Boswell, Socrates, and Sherlock Holmes among them — seek after their house-boat, formerly lost on the River Styx.