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.

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

Homewood Publishing Company

Unknown Series

F. M. Lupton, New York
(For information about this publisher see: http://www.henryaltemus.com/lupton/index.html)

The Chimney Corner Series was published by Lupton between 1893 and 1902. There were a total of 189 titles in wraps.
The first 74 pages of this issue complete the “Bad Boy” story (in double columns). Thereafter there are a number of other shorter tales by a miscellany of authors.
There are no illustrations except for the front cover.

Late 1890’s

Houghton, Mifflin Company
Post 1911

 
Post 1911 (published after the post-1911 book above)

Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1884
This undated book lists “Mercedes and other Lyrics” in the front ads. This Aldrich book was published in 1884. I have seen Boston and New York on the title page from 1881. Thus this book may have used an earlier title page but was probably published in about 1884.

Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1895

Eastern Publishing House 1884