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Hardcover--no dust jacket 1961, London Good to Fair Condition
Collection of humorous stories by Don Marquis, originally published from
1916 in Marquis's newspaper columns "The Sun Dial" in the New York
Evening Sun and "The Lantern" in the New York Herald Tribune and
published in book form in 1927. The stories center on Archy, a
philosophical cockroach who types messages to the author in lowercase
letters (being unable to activate the shift mechanism), and Mehitabel, a
free-spirited alley cat whose motto is "toujours gai." After initial
publication, the work and its sequels were usually published without
capital letters. Archy and Mehitabel consists mostly of free-verse
poems on such concerns of Archy's as transmigration of souls, social
injustice, life in New York City, and death. Sequels included Archys
Life of Mehitabel (1933) and Archy Does His Part (1935), both of which
were included in the lives and times of archy and mehitabel (1940;
illustrated by George Herriman), a posthumously published compendium of
the previous books. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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