Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye (1850-1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. He was also the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang. He adopted the name "Bill Nye" after a character in a famous poem by Bret Harte. The Boomerang was founded while Nye was the postmaster of Larmie City, Wyoming ...
With the landing of Hengist and Horsa English history really begins, for Caesar's capture of the British Isles was of slight importance viewed in the light of fast-receding centuries. There is little to-day in the English character to remind one of Caesar, who was a volatile and epileptic emperor with massive and complicated features.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thompson and Thomas
Date Published: 1906
Description: Fair. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly wiorn. Front hinge is cracked. Binding is tight. 329pp. read more
Description: Good. FRONT HINGE CRACKED; COVER RUBBED, SCUFFED, SPOTTED, SPINE ENDS, CORNERS BUMPED; CHIPPED; SOME BLACK/WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS NO DUST JACKET. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Thompson and Thomas
Date Published: 1906
Description: Acceptable. No Jacket. Inner spine has been repaired. Slight fading of title lettering on spine. With 150+ humorous drawings by J H Smith, formerly with JUDGE. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thompson & Thomas
Date Published: 1906
Description: Very Good +. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition Bright red, white & black pictorial cloth with picture on the front board & spine. A nice, clean, bright copy. Only flaw is a small, 1cm piece of the cloth has chipped away at the lower end of the spine seam. Otherwise a very nice copy. read more
Description: One of the turn-of-the-last-century's most popular humorists was a New Englander who "went West" to found and edit Wyoming's "Laramie Boomerang" (1881-84); a popular lecturer alongside Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, Nye's puns, misquotes and delightfully scrambled English was gathered in such popular volumes as "Bill Nye and Bomerang" (1881), "Forty Liars and Other Lies" (1882) and "Bill Nye's History of the United States" (1894). Handsome "Yours truly / Bill Nye" with nice paraph in brown ... read more
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