Author: [American Wit / Humor]. Haliburton, Thomas Chandler ["Judge" 1796 - 1865] - Attributed to
Title: NOTHING To EAT. Illustrated.; NOT By the Author of "Nothing to Wear."
Description: New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, 1857. 1st Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. viii, [7] - 117, [7] pp. Text in verse. 4 pages of adverts at rear. Frontis + 7 plates [included in pagination]. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Average wear. Gilt lettering faded. Pencil pos to front blank. A solid VG copy. A parody of William Howard Allen Butler's "Nothing to Wear." Occasionally attributed to Alger, though this disputed by Alger's biographer/bibliographer, Gardner [cf. notes of "NOTHING To DO" entry, pp 443 - 444].

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