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Chicago, Privately Printed, 1899. Wraps, 99, [3] pp.; 18 cm; frontispiece drawing "An Old-Fashioned Cider-Mill"; printed by R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company at the Lakeside Press.
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In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Blank cream wraps with light toning and rust marks from staples. Staple-bound, binding tight; glue marks at gutter inside front wrap. Untrimmed deckle fore-edges. Pages toned with mild foxing throughout, occasional light spotting and soiling; rust from staples showing at gutter of pp. 76-77; light brown stain at lower gutter of pp. 80-81; endpapers more heavily toned and spotted. Otherwise unmarked. Cream paper dust jacket illustrated and lettered in gold on front with blackletter title and rampant lion within striped panel; rear panel blank. Moderate shelf and edge wear, scuffing and soiling, toning heavier at edges and spine, a few small chips at head and foot of spine, rust marks from staples on front panel, residue of erased pencil notation at top of rear panel. Four pieces by the Chicago businessman and humorist, author of "Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof." About half the book is "Dante's Boodling," a mock-scholarly study of the 1302 Florentine decrees convicting Dante of barratry (Latin text given in an appendix), turned into satire of Chicago's own unbanished boodlers: Powers, Madden, Cullerton, "Bath House" Coughlin and Yerkes. Also includes a send-up of Browning's methods by way of his poem "Ivan Ivanovitch"; "Lines to Lake Geneva," verse attributed to soap and lard manufacturer Nathaniel K. Fairbank, set to music by Frederick W. Root, ending with a stanza on the Board of Trade and "Fairy" soap; and Head's address at the unveiling of the Haymarket police monument, May 30, 1889, naming the officers killed in the 1886 bombing. Contents: Dante's Boodling, and its Influence upon his Work; Some Methods of Browning, as Illustrated by the Poem of Ivan Ivanovitch; Lines to Lake Geneva; Address Delivered at the Unveiling of the Haymarket Monument.