BRACKENRIDGE, HUGH HENRY AND PHILIP FRENEAU.

Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca.

Princeton, Princeton University Library, (1975). Hardcover, tall octavo (6 x 9 inches), pp xxxii, 97. 4 b/w plates. Very good; a clean, unworn copy. No d/j. Considered by some as possibly the "first American novel,' this text was written as a humorous satire by two Princeton undergraduates in 1770. Both men went on to become important American writers. Edited and introduction by Michael Davitt Bell. .

-- Chanticleer Books

Book number: 8033

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Satire Early American Literature

BRACKENRIDGE, HUGH HENRY AND PHILIP FRENEAU.,

Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca.

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Library, 1975. Hardcover. ISBN: 0878110208. VG. Blue illus. paper over boards; Blue cloth at spine; 97 pp.; 5 bw plates.
¶ One of the earliest American novels, written in 1770.

-- Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

Book number: 112782

Catalogue: Misc

Keywords: 0878110208

BRACKENRIDGE, HUGH HENRY,

A Hugh Henry Brackenridge Reader, 1770-1815.

Univ. Pittsburgh, 1970. Hardcover. Exlibrary, usual markings. ; 407 pages. (ISBN: 0822931842) Very Good.

-- Jonathan Grobe Books

Book number: 31920

Catalogue: Biographies

BRACKENRIDGE, HUGH HENRY.

Modern Chivalry: Continuing the Adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O'regan.

NY:: Greenberg, Publisher, 1926. Hardcover. Part of The Rogues' Bookshelf series. With an introduction by Ernest Brennecke, Jr. First edition thus. Very good in a very good (a bit faded along the spine) dust jacket. ; 381 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

-- Grendel Books

Book number: 38739

Catalogue: General Fiction II

BRACKENRIDGE HUGH HENRY EDITED BY WHITE ED

Modern Chivalry

Indianapolis and Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Co Inc. 2009, First Thus. (ISBN: 9780872209916). Soft Cover. Clean bright unread copy. Very Good/No Jacket.

-- Webbooks, Wigtown

Book number: 312817

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Political Fiction POLITICS Social sciences 9780872209916

BRACKENRIDGE, HUGH HENRY

Modern Chivalry

New Haven: College And University Press Series, 1965. Masterworks Of Literature Series. Hardback. 8vo, 335pp. Edited for the Modern Reader by Lewis Leary. Clean, tight book but for previous owner's name on front endpaper. Bright dustjacket show very light shelfwear to spine only.

-- 12th Street Books

Book number: 51960

FRENEAU, PHILIP AND BRACKENRIDGE, HUGH HENRY. (BELL, MICHAEL DAVITT, ED.)

Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca 1770.

Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, (1975). xxxii, 97 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Illus. with b/w reproductions. A near fine copy in the original somewhat torn, glassine dust jacket.
¶ The authors were Princeton students when they wrote this work of fiction in the mock Oriental style fashionable at the time and sent their hero to Mecca dressed as a Musselman.

-- Kaaterskill Books

Book number: 29127

Catalogue: US Lit

Keywords: American Literature, Fiction, 18th c., Orientalism