Here is a 4.5″ x 2.5″ trade card for “A Bad Boy’s Diary”. The 25 Rose Street address indicates an 1881-1882 date. The 10 cent price means that this card was referring to one of the wraps’ editions published in parts.
Hurst Post-1909 Dust Jacket
This one page advertisement appeared in a July, 1921 Publishers’ Weekly magazine. Stanton and Van Vliet Co. were attempting to take advantage of the Peck’s Bad Boy movie to help the slakes of its Peck’s Bad Boy books.
Burdett’s Seriocomic Recitations and Readings edited by James S. Burdett 1887
This 167 page paperbound book contains numerous short vignettes. Some are humorous (like Peck’s contribution) while others are moralistic. Peck’s 3.5 page blurb comes from Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa Chapter 19 His Pa is “Nishiated”. It originally appeared in Peck’s Sun.
This book was published by the excelsior Publishing House in New York.
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Burdett included a short one page vignette “That Bad Boy” from Peck’s Sun in his ” A New Collection of Comic Recitations and Humorous Readings” published in 1883 by Roorbach and Company.
1900 advertisement
