
MR. MUNCHAUSEN
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Noyes, Platt & Company, Boston, 1901. Hard cover, 180 pages. Good; gold cloth with illustrated front board; corner and spine end wear with some fraying and bits of board exposed. Binding cracked in areas but all pages secure. No jacket. Gift inscription on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with only occasional age spotting. Front board illustration and 15 full-page colour plates including frontis by Peter Newell. ‘Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder, as originally reported for the Sunday Edition of the Gehenna Gazette by its Special Interviewer the late Mr. Ananias formerly of Jerusalem and now first transcribed from the columns of that Journal by John Kendrick Bangs’ (from Title page)