Tells the story of a fat man who goes to California to look for gold, and loses weight while there, then returns home, gains back weight and dies.
Description:
Also issued as part of a collected work entitled: Juvenile gem (see BEIN 1990 168).
Publisher:
Philip J. Cozans, publisher, 107 Nassau Street,
Subject (Geographic):
California--Fiction, California--Gold discoveries--Caricatures and cartoons, California--Gold discoveries--Juvenile literature, and California--Juvenile literature
Subject (Name):
Swingle, John--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Children's poetry, Children's stories, and Picture books for children
Amours de Mr. Vieux Bois. English, Brother Jonathan extra, no. IX, containing The adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, Brother Jonathan--extra ; Sept. 14, 1842, and Brother Jonathan--extra ; 1842 Sept. 14
Description:
Imperfect: title page repaired with tape. Presentation inscription to E.A. Mallory, 1850; tape partially obscures name of presenter., Originally published as Histoire de Monsieur Vieux Bois, Geneve, 1837; usually cited as: Amours de Mr. Vieux Bois., Published as an extra, or supplement, to the Sept. 14, 1842, issue of the periodical Brother Jonathan., and The first comic book published in America.
Colophon: Egbert, Hovey & King, printers., Only in the 1844 New York city directory is the firm of Wilson & Company listed at a Nassau Street address., and Originally published as Histoire de Monsieur Vieux Bois, Geneve, 1837; usually cited as: Amours de Mr. Vieux Bois.
Publisher:
Wilson & Company, Nassau-Street,
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons and Wit and humor, Pictorial
Inscribed for Carl Van Vechten by William Christopher Handy. and Ragtime for piano.
Publisher:
Pace & Handy Music Co.,
Subject (Name):
Handy, W. C.--(William Christopher),--1873-1958--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten and Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from W.C. Handy