Author: [Derby, John Horatio]. Phoenix, John [pseud.].
Title: Phoenixiana; or, Sketches and Burlesques.
Description: NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. 1856. - 8vo, brown cloth (top edge & spine faded; head & tail of spine chipped); titled with vignette in gilt on spine; gilt vignette within blind-stamped floral decorations on front cover. 274pp. & 14 pages of publisher's ads (preliminaries slightly foxed). Frontispiece. Good.

First edition. BAL 4650. Scarce. Henry Morton's copy, signed by him on front endpaper. Good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; CALIFORNIA HUMOR; BURLESQUE; CARTICATURE; JOHN HORATIO DERBY; JOHN PHOENIX; PHOENIXIANA; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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