Author: IRWIN, WALLACE
Title: Chinatown Ballads
Description: New York: Duffield & Company, 1906. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated with eight glossy black and white illustrations from drawings by E. C. Peixotto. This book is in Very Good condition and was possibly issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are generally clean and bright. This book appears to be lacking a front endpaper. "Irwin often wrote under a pseudonym or presented himself as the editor, translator, or sardonic discoverer of works by others. His Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr. Purports to be his translation from a language he calls “Mango-Bornese”. Irwin’s most sustained impersonation began in 1907 with the serialization of his Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy in Colliers magazine. He wrote in a stereotypical fractured English in the persona of a thirty-five-year-old “boy” Hashimura Togo. The fourth installment of the series, entitled “Yellow Peril”, featured Irwin posed in yellow face make-up for a portrait photograph of Togo. The photo fooled readers for months, whereupon Colliers produced twin photos, Irwin as Togo and Irwin “before he was Japanned. ”". Very Good .
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Title: Chinatown Ballads
Description: New York: Duffield & Company, 1906. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated with eight glossy black and white illustrations from drawings by E. C. Peixotto. This book is in Very Good condition and was possibly issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are generally clean and bright. This book appears to be lacking a front endpaper. "Irwin often wrote under a pseudonym or presented himself as the editor, translator, or sardonic discoverer of works by others. His Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr. Purports to be his translation from a language he calls “Mango-Bornese”. Irwin’s most sustained impersonation began in 1907 with the serialization of his Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy in Colliers magazine. He wrote in a stereotypical fractured English in the persona of a thirty-five-year-old “boy” Hashimura Togo. The fourth installment of the series, entitled “Yellow Peril”, featured Irwin posed in yellow face make-up for a portrait photograph of Togo. The photo fooled readers for months, whereupon Colliers produced twin photos, Irwin as Togo and Irwin “before he was Japanned. ”". Very Good .
Keywords: Poetry Wallace Irwin Chinatown California California Authors Californiana Poetry
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 33568
- Book number: 33568
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