The Wasp: Saturday, May 5th, 1882 Vol. 8, No. 301

5 incisions with a few nicks to spine from prior binding with other issues; streak of offset tanning front cover righ margin; offset tanning to pages from double page lithograph on reverse sides. Pagination out of whack because printers were drinking bad whiskey. ; Color litho illustrated paper covers. With articles and advertisements; Bierce's column, Prattle; front, and back cover (Andrew Jackson's Spirit Among the Old Democratic War Horses) lithographs by George Frederick Keller; double page lithograph "A Moving Scene" regarding the Pacific Stock Exchange by Keller. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 15 pages; "A weekly journal of social commentary and vitriolic color cartoons. Its greatest period was under the editorship of Ambrose Bierce (1881-86) , who wrote much of the text and lashed out at political corruption, particularly in local government or related to the Big Four; at revolutionary social views, including those of organized labor and of Denis Kearney; and at Chinese immigration" (Hart, Companion to California).

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Publisher: E. C. MacFarlane & Co.

Year: 1882

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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