New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899

Small 8vo, pp. 171, 4pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Illustrated tan boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Top edge red, leading and lower edges uncut. Partly unopened. Boards just a little darkened, but a near fine copy.

First edition of this collection of humorous short pieces, first published in Harper's Weekly the same year. One of the author's Asociated Shades series in which the activities of a cast of famous literary figures, now dead and resident in Hades, are relayed to our narrator by supernatural means (in this case via the eponymous typewriter, manned by James Boswell.

An excellent copy, and in Hubin for its faintly gothic atmosphere rather than its crome content, of which there is noe.

HUBIN, p. 22