Item #42146 A TRAMP ACTOR. Elliott Barnes.

A TRAMP ACTOR.

Chicago and New York: Belford Clark & Co., 1886. 1st Edition Thus (apparently also issued by Lovell in 1886). Not in Wright. vi, 298 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Original decorative olive-green cloth. Average binding wear. Cocked. A Very Good copy. Item #42146

"A picaresque novel in the Twainsian style about young Patsy O'Hoolahan, native of a squalid New York tenement, and his adventures as he makes his way in the world, working a riverboat on the Erie Canal, becoming part of a troupe of traveling players, etc. Elliott Barnes, appears to have been an actor himself, as well as the author of at least one successful play, Only a Farmer's Daughter, and he married a member of the corps de ballet of a traveling opera company, so one presumes his novel boasts some degree of verisimilitude, if nothing else." [ArCh].

Price: $125.00

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