[Rarebooks] FS: Mose Skinner's Boston Peace Festival and Pow-wow

[Bob Petrilla]

Skinner, Mose [Brown, James E.]. OUR GREAT PEACE FESTIVAL AND POW-WOW; TO
BE HELD IN BOSTON, JUNE 1869. Cover title: MOSE SKINNER'S GRAND PEACE
JUBILEE AND JEWSHARP ORATORIO. (These sketches appeared originally in the
"Wide World" newspaper, published in this city). Boston: Printed by Warren
Richardson, 1869. First Edition. pp: 21, (3) illustrated ads + ads inside
front cover, inside & outside back cover.  The front cover shows a black
man holding an olive branch over three dogs fighting over a rack of ribs,
captioned "Let us have piece."  7.5" x 4.5"  Very Good. Pictorial Paper
Covers.
Satirizes the fund-raising efforts of then-famous bandleader, Pat Gilroy,
to produce a National Peace Jubilee celebrating the end of the Civil War.
Gilroy's proposal to build an enormous Colesium (to be known as The Peace
Building or The Temple of Peace) on the Boston Common met initially with
scoffing and ridicule, especially under James Brown's pseudonym, Mose
Skinner. Nevertheless, not only was the festival actually held, but it was
a tremendous success.  [Wright, American Fiction, II-380.  Pictures by
request.]   $150.00


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