Divers Views, Opinions, and Prophecies of Yoors Trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby

Cincinnati, Ohio: R. W. Carroll & Co., 0867. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, 424 pp., 8 BW illus. G- (Bookplate & pocket remnants and few marks from previous library; this copy is missing 2 of the 8 illus. and pp.63-64 as well; some instances of foxing on pages; may have been rebound once.). Item #145710

A satire of mid-19th-century American history, politics, and culture, written in twangy rural vernacular and from the point of view of the fictional author Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, "Lait Pastor uv the Chuch of the New Dispensashun." Includes an opening "indorsement" of Nasby's literary worth and relevance from Abraham Lincoln.

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