Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Jones, Major
Title:
The coon hunt.
Published / Created:
Glasgow ; & London : Cameron & Ferguson, [1876?]
Physical Description:
24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PS648.S5 M97 1876
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Contemporary publisher's advertisements for the "Yankee comic tales" series attribute authorship to "Major Jones."

The series is dated "[1876]" in the Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum, volume 25.

Title from illustrated wrappers.

BAC: British Art Center copy in publisher's original illustrated paper wrappers. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. Cased with 8 other titles in the Yankee comic tales series.
Contents:
The coon-hunt --A case of supposition -- Practical jokes and bad liquor -- The amateur ticket-vendor -- Shifting the responsibility -- The first piano in northern Illinois -- The telegraph in St. Louis -- How Mike Hooter came very near "wolloping" Arch Cooney --Sticking plasters.
Subject Terms:
Short stories, American. | American wit and humor.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs -- 1876. | Publishers' advertisements -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 1876. | Wit and humor. | Short stories.
Contributors:
Cameron and Ferguson, publisher.