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A Tight Squeeze; Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, Who, On a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money as a professional tramp

A Tight Squeeze; Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, Who, On a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money as a professional tramp by Staats" [pseudonym, William Staats]

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Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller
Title
A Tight Squeeze; Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, Who, On a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money as a professional tramp
Author
Staats" [pseudonym, William Staats]
Seller
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1879. Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers & New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1879. Small 8vo, 282, (6, ads) pp. Original pink wrappers, printed with title and 3pp. of ads. Edges of wrappers worn with a few small chips, slightly larger chip to head and foot of backstrip, pages toned but clean, a very good copy of a fragile paperback. § First edition (offered in both wrappers and cloth; copies in wrappers are much harder to find). William Staats was an American journalist who worked for the Chicago Telegraph. The story was based on a real-life adventure, although whether it was Staats himself who took on the wager is not known. Final page with full-page advertisement for the first English translation of Jules Verne's The Tribulations of a Chinaman, translated by Virginia Champlin, published later in the same year by Lee and Shepard. Wright 5147.
A North Dakota Boy [Signed]

A North Dakota Boy [Signed] by George A. Birdsall

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Title
A North Dakota Boy [Signed]
Author
George A. Birdsall
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
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Description
New York: Carlton Press / Reflection Book, 1965. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Carlton Press / Reflection Book, 1965. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($1.95); [8],75pp.; illus. Jacket rather cockled and damp stained with a number of tiny closed tears to extremities, verso foxed, textblock only very slightly affected by external damp staining. Overall a Good to Very Good copy, signed by the author on front pastedown. Self-published account of the author's childhood experience of moving from his home in Illinois to the "unsettled plains of North Dakota.

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