The Maxims of Methuselah; Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty Year to is Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in matching near fine dust wrapper with slight loss at backstrip head. 108 pages. 18 x 13 cm. 12 page introduction. 29 Maxims. Four full page colored illustrations and each page within illustrated boarders. Signed presentation copy in ink 0n half title "To H. Fisher Esq. with the compliments of Gelett Burgess 1907......A woman's a woman For a chat" with small drawing of woman below his inscription. Contents and illustrations almost as new.