AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS
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ADE, GEORGE. Autograph manuscript signed of his humerous piece "The New Fable in the Slang of Those Who Stood the Gaff and Smiled or Otherwise," n.p., n.d. 29 pages, folio, written in pencil on rectos of lined tan sheets of inferior quality, a working draft with numerous revisions, a small marginal chip in first page touching two letters; red morocco folding case. This sketch appeared in Cosmopolitan, August 1918 issue, under the title "The Fable of Those Who Stand the Gaff"; it was not collected in book form. See D.R. Russo, A Bibliography of George Ade (1947), p. 234.
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ADE, GEORGE. Autograph manuscript signed of his humerous piece "The New Fable in the Slang of Those Who Stood the Gaff and Smiled or Otherwise," n.p., n.d. 29 pages, folio, written in pencil on rectos of lined tan sheets of inferior quality, a working draft with numerous revisions, a small marginal chip in first page touching two letters; red morocco folding case. This sketch appeared in Cosmopolitan, August 1918 issue, under the title "The Fable of Those Who Stand the Gaff"; it was not collected in book form. See D.R. Russo, A Bibliography of George Ade (1947), p. 234.