[Rarebooks] fa: [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR] THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL + A REJOINDER 1870

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Auction ending Sunday, October 30. No reserve. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


[Henry William Pullen:] The Fight at Dame Europa's School: Shewing How the German Boy Thrashed the French Boy; and How the English Boy Looked On. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., [ca. 1870]. [WITH:] John's Governor Visits Dame Europa's School : the Result of Which is Among Things that Yet Remain to be Seen. Being a Rejoinder to 'The Fight.' Edinburgh and London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871. Two pamphlets in original printed wraps, small 8vo; 28 pp.; 32 pp. First edition of the second title.

Satirical allegories depicting the Franco-Prussian War as a schoolyard brawl. The first title with some soiling and bookseller's label (H & C Treacher, Brighton) to the wraps, light crease, inscription and one word of the text inked out; wraps of the second title splitting at the spine.