New York: Frederick A. Stokes. Good+ with no dust jacket; Significant wear to all edges, corners, spine ends. Covers soiled. 1907. First Edition (?). Hardcover. The subtitle: "Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age in regard to women." A humorous take on Methuselah's accumulated wisdom about women from this US humorist and illustrator (1866-1951) who wrote the famous rhyme "I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one. But I can tell you here and now, I'd rather see than be one." Signed by the author "With the compliments of/Gelett Burgess/1907" and includes the author's hand-drawn figure (monk? friar?) wearing a belted robe and sporting a halo. Written in an archaic, quasi-Biblical style. Illustrations, page decorations, and cover design by Louis D. Fancher (1884 - 1944) of San Francisco CA during this period. Color frontis and plates appear transitional, showing both Art Nouveau and Art Deco influences. Page decorations are strongly Egyptian revival. Green cloth spine, illustrated covers, paper over boards. No DJ, believed as-issued. Front pastedown has small clipping from a bookseller's catalog pasted down, the clipping describing this specific copy. Interior is clean. G+ ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 108 pages .

New York: Boni & Liveright. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Spine a bit darkened. Corners bumped and worn. Tail edges of covers worn. Tiny nick to front head edge. Book plate on front pastedown. Lacks the scarce DJ. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Thirty-nine black and white plates of drawings by the author/artist. Each is captioned and depicts a tree or trees showing fanciful human, animal, or supernatural characteristics that one might imagine while looking at trees in silhouette: quite creative and clever. Collected from the author/artist's drawings that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post magazine. Quarter cloth with patterned, rust-colored rice paper over boards. Title in black on spine. A nicer copy than VG- would imply ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 39 pages .