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Wilson and Company.(1942) Modern Reprint, Circa 1999 Book. Illus. by Fully Illustrated. Very Good. English Edition. Humor, satire, wit, chagrins, calamities, love,. Very nice condition, lovely book to share and enjoy. Modern, undated replica. Reprint, full color, directly from the antique original. 84 pages, including covers, in very good condition, like new. It's been reproduced in color, although the original was black ink on white paper. Replica/reprint published by Portable Trunk Publishers, undated, circa 1999. Whimsical tales to engage the reader with the conflicts, humor and amours of being human. Early comic satire. Fully illustrated. Thoroughly engaging. A delightful look at early comic strip style literature featuring a cast of zany characters to illustrate the the wit of being a human being, both man or woman. Glossy, flex covers, with cloth binding. A sturdy book. Clean and Unmarked Text. Very Good condition. Text is in English. Reproduced, same as original. Enhanced for reading… Read More

NY: Wilson and Company, 1849., 1849. First printing thus. Oblong 8vo. 8 5/8" x 5 5/8. 80 pages, sewn in signatures. Front and back covers illustrated. Illustrated throughout in B & W. From the front cover: "Done with Drawings by Timothy Crayon, Gypsographer. 188 Comic Etchings on Antimony." This is the first printing of the "book" version published in the year 1849 (date stated on title page); the 1842 first edition was a newspaper supplement. Written and illustrated by the Swiss caricaturist Rodolphe Töpffer, it was created in 1827 and published first in Geneva, Switzerland in 1837 as Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois, then in London in 1841 by the English translation published by Tilt and Bogue as The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, and then in New York, in a newspaper supplement titled Brother Jonathan Extra No. IX (September 14, 1842), followed by an 1849 publication in book form titled The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, by Wilson and Company in New York. It is… Read More