BACHELOR BIGOTRIES: COMPILED BY AN OLD MAID AND APPROVED BY A YOUNG BACHELOR. ILLUSTRATED BY AN EX-BACHELOR. PUBLISHED BY A YOUNG MARRIED MAN
by An Old Maid (compiler) and A.F. Willmarth (illust.)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco, CA: Paul Elder and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Man and Horseradish are most Biting when Grated" - Richter
Octavo, 8" x 4 3/4." pp. Quarter red cloth over illustrated paper boards. Fading to spine and boards. Minor wear to extremities and corners bumped. Faint black stain to back board. Binding sound. Red and black illustrations throughout. Interior pages tanned and unmarked. Collection of humorous, but misogynistic quotes regarding the perils of women and marriage. Arranged by quote of the day. "What courage can withstand the ever-enduring and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?" - Irving. "Woman's at best a contradiction still" - Pope.
Octavo, 8" x 4 3/4." pp. Quarter red cloth over illustrated paper boards. Fading to spine and boards. Minor wear to extremities and corners bumped. Faint black stain to back board. Binding sound. Red and black illustrations throughout. Interior pages tanned and unmarked. Collection of humorous, but misogynistic quotes regarding the perils of women and marriage. Arranged by quote of the day. "What courage can withstand the ever-enduring and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?" - Irving. "Woman's at best a contradiction still" - Pope.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85901
- Title
- BACHELOR BIGOTRIES: COMPILED BY AN OLD MAID AND APPROVED BY A YOUNG BACHELOR. ILLUSTRATED BY AN EX-BACHELOR. PUBLISHED BY A YOUNG MARRIED MAN
- Author
- An Old Maid (compiler) and A.F. Willmarth (illust.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Paul Elder and Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, CA
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- Bachelors, Quote of the Day, Verse, Early twentieth-century sexist humor, Women's Studies, Feminism
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