1895 Chimmie Fadden Irish American Tales Illustrated New York Irish Dialect Gift
$ 10.56
Description
1895 CHIMMIE FADDEN IRISH AMERICAN TALES ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK IRISH DIALECT GIFT. From 1895, the first edition, Chimmie Fadden, Major Max and Other Stories, by Edward W. Townsend. Solid condition. He had been in ill health for several years. His age was 87. From 1895, the first edition, Chimmie Fadden, Major Max and Other Stories, by Edward W. Townsend. As published by American Publishers Co., New York. Chimmie or Jimmy Fadden is an Irish-American New Yorker who talks in an Irish-American Bowery dialect, taken up in the Bowery Boys serials. Sized 8x5 inches, bound in green decorated cloth, 346 pages. Solid condition. Edward Waterman Townsend, author of the Chimmie Fadden stories, the Bowery dialect of which amused thousands of newspaper readers at the turn of the century, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alonzo L. Tyler, 343 West 120th Street. He had been in ill health for several years. His age was 87. Born in Cleveland, Mr. Townsend obtained his first newspaper job in San Francisco as a young man. After serving as Washington cor- respondent for The San Francisco Examiner, he joined the staff of The Sun here in 1892, then in its heyday under the editorship of Charles A. Dana. Chimmie Fadden, the Bowery urchin who got a job in the home of a member of the Four Hundred and tickled the risibilities of Sun readers with his description, in his own idiom, of the goings-on there, was the result of an assignment Mr. Townsend received to do a Sun- day feature article. At loss for a topic, he recalled an incident in- volving a Bowery boy in a mission he had recently visited, and Chimmie was the result. His Book was a Big Seller
