Author: O'Rell, Max
Title: A Frenchman in America: Recollections of Men and Things
Description: NY: Cassell Publishing Company, (1891). (1891). NY: Cassell Publishing Company, (1891). (1891). Good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt & in black within a gilt rectangle decorated with gilt fleurs de lys with vignettes in gilt & black; titled in blind on rear cover; t.e.g. The covers are bumped & rubbed with light staining to the front cover. The titling & vignettes on the spine are faded & the head & tail are chipped & frayed. x & 365 pp. & 3-page publisher's catalogue. B&W portrait frontispiece, 1 B&W photographic plate & profuse B&W full-page & textual illustrations from drawings by E. W. Kemble. The page edges are darkened. Good.

A Frenchman's humorous commentary on his experiences of traveling around America and Canada. O'Rell was produced on the lecture circuit by the impresario James B. Pond. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; HUMOR; HUMORIST; MAX O'RELL; AMERICANA; CANADA; ILLUSTRATIONS; E. W. KEMBLE; JAMES B. POND; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

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