Author: PHOENIX, JOHN (GEORGE HORATIO DERBY) WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
Title: Phoenixiana Or Sketches and Burlesques
Description: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. New Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. B&W Illustrations; New Edition - First Edition Thus. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and scuffing. The covers of the book have generalized ground-in dirt. The front cover has an indented partial coffee ring and some beginning fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (F. E. Perham) on the front pastedown page. "George Horatio Derby (April 3, 1823 – May 15, 1861) was an early California humorist. He attended West Point with Ulysses S. Grant. Derby used the pseudonym "John P. Squibob" and its variants "John Phoenix" and "Squibob." Derby served as a Lieutenant in the U. S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. In his spare time, he wrote humorous anecdotes and burlesques, often under the guise of his pseudonyms....While waiting for approval of his San Diego River diversion plans, he had some time on his hands. He supplemented his low military pay by contributing humorous articles to the San Francisco Herald, California Pioneer magazine, and the fledgling local newspaper, the San Diego Herald. He wrote articles that poked fun at the figures and pretenses of high society. These articles were written to appear as if a running narrative from John Phoenix and were the state's first published humor. When another writer started writing articles with his pen name Squibob in a competing San Francisco newspaper, Derby wrote an article "killing off" Squibob and continued to write with a new penname, John Phoenix. ". Very Good .
Keywords: Humor John Phoenix, Esq. George Horatio Derby John Kendrick Bangs Essays Newspaper Articles
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Title: Phoenixiana Or Sketches and Burlesques
Description: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. New Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. B&W Illustrations; New Edition - First Edition Thus. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and scuffing. The covers of the book have generalized ground-in dirt. The front cover has an indented partial coffee ring and some beginning fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (F. E. Perham) on the front pastedown page. "George Horatio Derby (April 3, 1823 – May 15, 1861) was an early California humorist. He attended West Point with Ulysses S. Grant. Derby used the pseudonym "John P. Squibob" and its variants "John Phoenix" and "Squibob." Derby served as a Lieutenant in the U. S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. In his spare time, he wrote humorous anecdotes and burlesques, often under the guise of his pseudonyms....While waiting for approval of his San Diego River diversion plans, he had some time on his hands. He supplemented his low military pay by contributing humorous articles to the San Francisco Herald, California Pioneer magazine, and the fledgling local newspaper, the San Diego Herald. He wrote articles that poked fun at the figures and pretenses of high society. These articles were written to appear as if a running narrative from John Phoenix and were the state's first published humor. When another writer started writing articles with his pen name Squibob in a competing San Francisco newspaper, Derby wrote an article "killing off" Squibob and continued to write with a new penname, John Phoenix. ". Very Good .
Keywords: Humor John Phoenix, Esq. George Horatio Derby John Kendrick Bangs Essays Newspaper Articles
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- Book number: 35164
- Book number: 35164
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