Born in a Beer Garden or, She Troupes to Conquer.

Book

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Hoboken Historical Museum

front cover

front cover

Name/Title

Born in a Beer Garden or, She Troupes to Conquer.

Entry/Object ID

2014.015.0005

Description

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. 178 of 999 copies. 8vo orange wrappers with printed paper label on cover; uncut and unopened. pp. 118, illustrated. Gilt-stamped red oval leather ex-libris of Arthur Wilmer Lissauer. (See library 2014.013.0005 for the more common hardcover issue in blue-and-white checked, gingham, boards with the same paper label on front board.) 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. ==== 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] 178 ==== ==== Within the issue for sale, most copies were issued in a hardcover binding with a blue gingham checked cloth and the same paper label. 6-1/4" x 9-3/8"

Acquisition

Accession

2014.015

Source or Donor

Purchase

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Museum Collections.

Book Details

Author

Morley, Christopher, Throckmorton, Cleon/Nash, Odgen/Calkins, Earnest Elmo/Wilson, Edward A./Illian, George/Hutaf, August William/Warmuth, Jeanette/

Edition

First thus, limited edition

Publisher

Foundry Press: R.C. Rimington

Place Published

Location

New York City

Date Published

1930

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

General Notes

Note

Notes: BIBLIOGRAPHY Lee 86 (see A Bibliography of Christopher Morley. By Alfred P. Lee. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1935.) ==== Illustrator listed as "Jay" was Jeanette Warmuth. Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-03-30