Name/Title
Born in a Beer Garden or, She Troupes to Conquer.Entry/Object ID
2014.013.0005Description
Born in a Beer Garden or, She Troupes to Conquer. Sundry Ejaculations by Christopher Morley, Cleon Throckmorton and Ogden Nash; And Certain of the Hoboken Ads with a Commentary on Them by Earnest Elmo Caulkins; Embellishments by Edward A. Wilson, George Illian, Cleon Throckmorton, August William Hutaf and Jay. MCMXXX. The Foundry Press: R.C. Rimington at No. 1 West 67th Street, New York.
First edition, limited edition, no. 327 of 999 copies. 8vo blue-and-white checked (gingham) cloth over boards with printed paper label on cover. pp. 118, illustrated. Issued with plain glassine dustjacket and slipcase which are not present.
(See library 2014.015.0005 for an issue in orange paper wrappers.)
The contents are about the Hoboken theater years of Morley and his associates at the Rialto and Lyric Theatres where they presented musical revivals of very old stage works.
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Of this edition 999 copies
have been printed for
THE FOUNDRY PRESS:
R.C. RIMINGTON
by The Marchbanks Press
New York, of which copies
1 to 50 are for hilarity,
and copies 51 to 71 are on im-
ported paper and signed
by all contributors.
THIS IS COPY NO.
[ink] 327
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6-1/2" x 9-3/4" hardcover; no spine titlingAcquisition
Accession
2014.013Source or Donor
Lukacs, ClaireAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.Book Details
Author
Throckmorton, Cleon/Nash, Odgen/Calkins, Earnest Elmo/Wilson, Edward A./Illian, George/Hutaf, August William/Warmuth, Jeanette/, Morley, ChristopherEdition
First thus, limited editionPublisher
Foundry Press: R.C. RimingtonDate Published
1930Notes
Copy No.: 2General Notes
Note
Notes: BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lee 86 (see A Bibliography of Christopher Morley. By
Alfred P. Lee. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1935.)
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Illustrator listed as "Jay" was Jeanette Warmuth.
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2014-04-15
