Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

Bill Nye: His Own Life Story.

NYE, Bill, and NYE, Frank Wilson.

New York: The Century Co., 1926. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, gilt. xx, 412pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Spine ever-so-slightly dulled. First edition, tight and handsome, of this posthumous memoir by the turn-of-the-last-century American humorist (1850-96). Nye's oldest son (and here co-author who provided the "Continuity" referred to on the title page) inscribes the front flyleaf big and bold "For / Mr. Harry Johnston / with kind regards / Frank W Nye / Sept 20 - 1927." Item #19747

Price: $75.00