1950 The Life and Times of Archy and Mehitabel Book

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Charming small hardcover copy of this classic text of stories and poems about a cat and a cockroach living in … more Charming small hardcover copy of this classic text of stories and poems about a cat and a cockroach living in New York City in the early 1900's. "Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis. Marquis's satirical free-verse poems, which first appeared in his New York newspaper columns in 1916, revolve around the escapades of Archy, a philosophical cockroach who was a poet in a previous life, and Mehitabel, a streetwise alley cat who was once Cleopatra. Reincarnated as the lowest creatures on the social scale, they prowl the rowdy streets of New York City in between the world wars, and Archy records their experiences and observations on the boss's typewriter late at night. First published in 1927, Archy and Mehitabel has become a celebrated part of the twentieth-century American literary canon." amazon
Pictures by George Herriman and intro by E. B. White. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. 478pp. A lovely small book with textured boards. less