First edition — in the rare original dust jacket — of Bangs's comic fantasy on the afterlife of literary characters and their makers.
Very good in good plus jacket.
Price: $1,000.00
"It seems to me," said Shakespeare, wearily, one afternoon at the club--"that this business of being immortal is pretty dull."
These twelve collected episodes introduce Bangs's dead poets society, a floating fraternity of the dead encompassing historical and the fictional alike, from Shakespeare to Hamlet and Baron Munchausen to Beau Brummel. A HOUSEBOAT was followed by three more books in the same metaphysical universe, notably including THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSEBOAT, which brought in new club member Sherlock Holmes. An attractive copy in the seldom-seen original jacket.
Read more: Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature, 726.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Full title: A house-boat on the Styx: being some account of the divers doings of the associated shades. 6.5'' x 4.25''. Original gilt-stamped green pictorial cloth. In original cream dust jacket. Illustrated with 24 black and white plates (including frontispiece) by Peter Newell. 171, [5] pages. Slight spine lean. Light spotting to rear board, sunning to spine. Light chipping and several closed tears to jacket spine. Tape reinforcements to jacket verso flaps, light dampstaining to rear jacket panel.
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