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Sykes, M'Cready : Poe's Run and Other Poems; Being the true and authentic Narration of certain notable Games, wherein are set forth many marvelous Good Deeds wrought by the Princeton team; all done into Verse in the Vulgar Tongue: To Which Is Appended The Book of the Chronicles of the Elis

The Cannon Press, Princeton, NJ, 1904

Original publisher's green cloth binding with black-and-white lettering on front cover. No lettering on spine (lettering appears to have been completely rubbed off. Printed by A. Becker of New York. 6 1/4" x 8 1/4." Eighty-four pages, complete. Many small black-and-white illustrations, complete. Former owners' signature and brief inscription in black ink on front free endpaper. Pages are very clean and intact except for light to moderate age toning. Covers are very clean and intact except for light rubbing to front and back, slight wear to extremities, and light to moderate rubbing along spine. Spinal lettering has been completely rubbed off. A Very Good copy. This is a collection of comedic and satirical poetry about college sports and football at Princeton University. The author is credited as M'Cready Sykes, although at least one online source references Booth Tarkington as a co-author. Tarkington, William B. Pell, and Harold Imbrie are officially credited as providing the pictures or illustrations that accompany the text. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American author and playwright. He is only one of four authors to date who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his novels, The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921).. Illustr.: Tarkington, Booth; Pell, William B.; Imbrie, Harold. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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