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Willis, N. Parker : Fun-Jottings; or, Laughs I Have Taken a Pen To

Alden, Beardsley and Company, Auburn, NY, 1854

Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine and impressed decorations on front and back covers. 5 3/8" x 8 1/8." 371 pages, complete. Twelve additional advertisements in the back for this book and others published works by N. P. Willis. Former ownership ship inscription written in black ink on front free endpaper dated September [5?], 186[5?]. Some of the pages have staining (most of the stains are faint), but text is still legible. Nathaniel Parker (N. P.) Willis (1806-1867) was an American author, poet, and editor. After college, Willis began working for the New York Mirror and made his own publication, Town & Country, in 1846. Willis became the highest-paid magazine writer in his time and also worked with notable literary figures such as Edgar Allen Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Of these "fun-jottings," the Preface notes, "They record, under more or less of disguise, turns of event or of character, which have amused him. In re-compiling his past writings into volumes, these lighter ones have been laid aside, and they are not trusted to take their chance by themselves, appealing to whatever indulgence may be in store, in the reader's mind, for a working-pen at play." Listed in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) as no. 22822.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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