"Swingin Round the Cirkle"; His Ideas of Men, Politics, and Things, as Set Forth in His Letters to the Public Press, During the Year 1866
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. Nast, Thomas. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 299 pp. The popular work of ironic fiction written by journalist and political commentator David Ross Locke (1833-1888). Locke's greatest influence was through his satirical writings as "Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby". The Nasby letters harshly ridiculed the plight of..... More