New Sayings By Abe Martin and Velma's Vow, A Gripping Love Tale (SIgned)

Martin, Abe, And Fawn Lippincut [Hubbard, Frank McKinney]

Abe Martin Publishing Co., 1916

[Presentation copy with caricatures and signatures of Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard.] Bound in checkered linen cloth. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Edges rubbed. Caricatures are of 3 generations of the Burford family. Hand painted Christmas card included, also done and signed by Hubbard. FEP and some rear pages detached but included. Chipping to some page corners.  

Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868 - 1930) was a popular cartoonist, humorist, and journalist known by his pen name "Kin" Hubbard. Hubbard based his most famous creation, Abe Martin, his country bumpkin philosopher, in Brown County Indiana. During the early years of the twentieth century, the isolated hilly county had one of Indiana's highest poverty and illiteracy rates. Hubbard thought having a rustic Brown County resident as a font of wisdom humorous. Many of the quips Hubbard coined remain in use today. The original Abe Martin cartoons ran in hundreds of U.S. newspapers from 1904 to 1930.  After Hubbard’s death The Indianapolis News re-ran the cartoons through 1980, fifty years after his death. - Irvington Historical Society