Phoenixiana; or, Sketches and Burlesques

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First of this edition, with comic illustrations throughout by E. W. Kemble, the introduction by John Kendrick Bangs, and the decorative pictorial binding. xvi, 332, [4]pp. Yellow pictorial cloth stamped in gold, red and black. Spine a bit darkened, just a few pages with rough edges, else a fine and clean copy. Phoenixiana consists of humorous sketches of California by John Phoenix or John Squibob, the pen names of U.S. Lieutenant George H. Derby. [BAL: 762 (under entry for John Kendrick Bangs; also listed as an entry for Derby's writings).]..