Lot 123
H. PORTER [SCHOOLS, Humor] West Point Life A Poem 1866

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Porter, Horace. [SCHOOLS] [EARLY COMIC BOOK] West Point Life: A Poem, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1866.

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[EARLY COMIC] West Point Life: A Poem, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1866.
"Read Before the Dialectic Society of the United States Military Academy"

Early American comics-style Humor book.

Porter, Horace. West Point Life: A Poem, Read Before the Dialectic Society of the United States Military Academy. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1866, red cloth, gilt cover lettering; front hinge split, blank loose; tissue guards present; light foxing and toning.

Book is illustrated with pen and ink sketches, "by a cadet"; to which is added the song, "Benny Havens, oh!"

Comic illustrations in b&w.