No jacket. Light stain along bottom edge of front board, pencil note on front endpapers, front hinge starting, pages faintly toned. 1889 Hard Cover. vi, 296 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: George Wilbur Peck (September 28, 1840 – April 16, 1916) was an American writer and politician from Wisconsin. He served as the 17th Governor of Wisconsin and the 9th Mayor of Milwaukee.[1] Peck became a newspaper publisher who founded newspapers in Ripon and La Crosse, Wisconsin. His La Crosse newspaper, The Sun, was founded in 1874. In 1878 Peck moved the newspaper to Milwaukee, renaming it Peck's Sun. The weekly newspaper contained Peck's humorous writings, including his famous Peck's Bad Boy stories.[4]