Burgess, Gelett, and Will Irwin.

THE PICAROONS A SAN FRANCISCO NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENT.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Octavo. Green publisher's cloth, gilt spine; decorated in black and gilt. 272,32 pp. First British edition. Thirty-two page publisher's catalogue at conclusion of text. Entertains every sort of non-PC situation and language, including a portrait of a man of, presumably, Chinese heritage on the spine. A note at the beginning of the text relates, "Picaroon = a petty rascal, one who lives by his wits, an adventurer." A good copy, spine gilt worn. Item #561

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