The Last Straw. A Few Stories and Verses Written at Odd Moments to Kill Time and for the Amususement of his Friends

  • SIGNED Frontispiece portrait and autograph below 10 photo plates and 30 textual drawings. 54pp. 12mo (7 x 5 inches)
  • Kansas City, MO: [Privately Printed], 1902
By Woody, Sidney Foss
Kansas City, MO: [Privately Printed], 1902. First Edition limited to 100 copies, signed by author below portrait. Frontispiece portrait and autograph below 10 photo plates and 30 textual drawings. 54pp. 12mo (7 x 5 inches). Black pebbled morocco spine small losses at head and tail, boards but a presentable copy of a rare book, presentation inscription to Aunt Nannie on ffep. First Edition limited to 100 copies, signed by author below portrait. Frontispiece portrait and autograph below 10 photo plates and 30 textual drawings. 54pp. 12mo (7 x 5 inches). Camping and fishing trip in the biuysh with 7 friends. Author's reason for writing this was after 20 years in KC he was leaving to live with strangers in a strange land


Rare privately printed gift book, written for the author's friends. The group's fishing and camping trip to a lake in Missouri is recounted in the form of a play, with most of the text in verse. This is followed by a selection of poetry and an essay. An uncommon book, with only four institutional copies recorded in worldcat and no past auction records. Not in Wetzel or Bruns; 3 copies in OCLC

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