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#M-1 - The Maxims of Noah... Derived from his Experience with Women Both Before and After the Flood as Given in Counsel to his Son Japhet - by Gelett Burgess, and with illustrations and page decorations by Louis D. Fancher. - $45.00 A humorous look at Noah and his experiences with women, written in the manner of verses in the Bible. Each page is graced with Fancher's fanciful illustrated decorations which completely surround the text. By way of example, a short passage beginning on page 54 reads: "8 - Now on a time I flirted with a maiden at a picnic, and as we talked together, lo, her hair fell from her head, yea, it streamed down wondrously upon her shoulders, and many were the curls thereof. - 9 - And she became ashamed; she begged my pardon saying: Lo, I can never keep my hair up; what shalt thou think of me? - 10 - But I answered, saying,: Nay, bind it not up; leave it thus, for it well becometh thee. - 11 - And the other women smiled bitterly one at another; their look was the look of one who drinketh water after eating cranberries. - 12 - For I knew not that her hairpins had been loosened privily, and that thus did she with every man." Published at New York by Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1913, this is a First Edition Thus. Hardbound in pictorial paper-covered boards illustrated and decorated in red, black and white, with black cloth spine. Measuring 5" x 7.25" it has 119 + title, copyright and list of illustrations pages. There are also a frontispiece and 3 other single-sided pages with full-page illustrations in red, gray, black and white. The condition is Good+, with bumping and rubbing at the corners and edges as the only significant fault. The binding and hinges are tight. Interior pages are VeryGood+ - clean, tight, bright and complete, with NO marks or other faults.