IN PICTORIAL DJ
Forty Liars, and Other Lies.
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co.; St. Louis: Belford & Clarke Publishing Co, 1882.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
Second Extended Edition, with 16 pieces not in the first edition of the same year. Illustrations. 301pp. 8vo. IN PICTORIAL DJ. Publisher's original brick cloth, spine and front cover decorated and lettered in gilt & black, near fine, IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET, with some wear and loss. BAL 15074; Flake 5962; Wright III, 4010 (both overlooking this extended edition); not in Tanselle.
Item #333554
Nye (1850-1896)) moved to Laramie City, Wyoming Territory in 1876, serving as a justice of the peace. In 1881 he founded the newspaper the Laramie Boomerang, which he edited from 1881 to 1884, and forged a reputation for his stories of frontier humor. His first collection of humorous tales was published as Bill Nye and Boomerang (1881), with the present Forty Liars and other Lies (1882) following.
Nineteenth century pictorial dust jackets are very scarce. The upper panel depicts a farmer leading a column of hogs, repeating the illustration on page. 13; the rear panel is an advertisement for the Laramie Boomerang.
