Chinatown Ballads.
New York. Duffield. 1960. Stock ID #217337 Wallace Irwin (March 15, 1875 – February 14, 1959) was an American writer who wrote in a wide variety of styles including light verse, humourous sketches, political satire and even an opera libretto. His greatest success came from a series of letters apparently written by a Japanese "boy" (a man of 35) named Hashimura Togo published in Colliers Magazine in 1907. "Hashimura Togo", wrote in "stereotypical fractured English". The letters were a hugely successful series that went on for months before the truth was revealed to the, by that stage, very large readership. The success of these "letters" was a turning point in Wallace Irwin's career. His work was even praised by Mark Twain who declared the book which resulted from these letters as "the greatest joke in America". When referring to this item please quote stockid 217337.
Black and white plates, 81pp, pictorial upper cover, plate laid down, cloth a little soiled and worn in one small place with loss. Contents sound and very clean. Attractively presented in a custom made slipcase.
Chinatown Ballads is similarly written in a extraordinarily racist style by 21st Century standards but in verse form rather than letters. (Wikipedia).
Price: $75.00 AU