[Rarebooks] FS - Gelett Burgess, The Maxims Of Methuselah

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FS - Gelett Burgess, The Maxims Of Methuselah

Gelett Burgess
The Maxims Of Methuselah
Frederick A. Stokes, 1907, 1st Edition (?), Hardcover, 12mo  7" - 7½" tall, 
108 pp., G+/ NONE, Significant wear to all edges, corners, spine ends. 
Covers soiled. The subtitle: "Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in 
his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's 
Coming of Age in regard to women." A humorous take on Methuselah's 
accumulated wisdom about women from this US humorist and illustrator 
(1866-1951) who wrote the famous rhyme "I never saw a purple cow..." Signed 
by the author "With the compliments of/Gelett Burgess/1907" who included a 
drawn figure (monk? friar?) wearing a belted robe and sporting a halo. 
Written in an archaic, quasi-Biblical style. Illustrations, page 
decorations, and cover design by Louis D. Fancher. Color frontis and plates 
appear transitional, showing both Art Nouveau and Art Deco influences. Page 
decorations are strongly Egyptian revival. Green cloth spine. Illustrated 
covers, paper over boards. No DJ, believed as-issued. Front pastedown has 
small clipping from a bookseller's catalog pasted down, the clipping 
describing this specific copy. Interior is clean. G+ Stock# 462 $125.00 USD

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   20th Century & Antiquarian Books for the Reader & Collector
   Books & materials subject to prior sale, order by e-mail or telephone.
   Prices are net USD, payment by PayPal to archetype at 20ants.com,
   or international money order/check with order. Indiana pays 6% tax.
   Institutions invoiced. Books returnable in 10 days: contact us first.
   Domestic S&H: $3.50 1st book, $1.00 per additional book by USPS
   at Media rate. International, Priority Mail, or other carrier by quotation.
   Traditional courtesies extended to the trade. Always seeking better
   books, individually and in lots,  specialties are non-fiction & literature
   Member: Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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