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The History of John the Orange-Man
The History of John the Orange-Man
The History of John the Orange-Man
The History of John the Orange-Man
The History of John the Orange-Man
"Henry Fielding" (pseud.)

The History of John the Orange-Man


Boston: C. M. A Twitchell & Co., The Old South Press, 1892.

Printed red cardstock wraps, 12mo, 52pp. Very Good with crease to rear wrap, sunning to spine and subtle spotting to cover. 6 in OCLC (Harvard, Yale, Brown, UCSD, NYPL, and the National Library of Ireland). 

A biography of the Irish immigrant and fruitseller who became a beloved staple of the Harvard community for nearly forty years. By "Henry Fielding" (with a nod to Tom Jones), illustrated with photographic plates of John and his lodgings. Announced in the Harvard Crimson on April 27, 1892: "A new life of Old John called 'The History of John the Orange-man,' has just been written by a student in the Law School. The book is all printed, and will be ready for the public as soon as a number of pictures are inserted, that is, in about a week. The book will be sold only by John himself, as he says he does not want his life to get into the stores and so into everybody's hands, but he wants to sell his life from his hand cart to the students and graduates of the college."