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Title: Brand-New Ballads
Description: London, Fun Office, 1885. Leather. A very smart little copy of Charles Leland's humorous brand of poetry that is offered here complete with its original card wraps. Charles Godfrey Leland (1824 – 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist. Brand-New Ballads was the sequel to his hugely successful Hans Breitmann Ballads, being amusing poems written in a terrible German accent. Scarce. In a full morocco binding with the original card wraps bound in. Externally, a little marked here and there but otherwise generally smart with a little edgewear only. Backstrip has been labelled by hand in gold ink. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout. Armorial bookplate of Beresford-Massy to front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: fun periodical humour poetry periodical None

Price: GBP 69.99 = appr. US$ 99.94 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: LTH17-C-7

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