This book is on consignment, so no discounts apply. It was 1838 before Haliburton finally admitted to being the author. Sam Slick, Haliburtons fictional character, was first introduced in The Clockmaker or The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville, first as a series. It was even translated into French and German. "The Clockmaker" was very popular, and sold as well as Dickens in England and Mark Twain in the United States. In 1836, Howe published 33 of the sketches in this book. The sketches were satirical depictions of Nova Scotians ("Bluenoses"), but are also extremely racist and misogynistic by today's standards.
SAM SLICK THE CLOCKMAKER SERIES
One of his good friends, Joseph Howe (who would later become Premier of Nova Scotia), had a newspaper called the "Novascotian." Haliburton wrote a series of anonymous sketches about an American clock peddler named Sam Slick, who was giving a tour of Nova Scotia to a rich Englishman. Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a judge in Windsor, Nova Scotia. Bottom corner of page 214 is folded in, in what looks like a production mishap. Some tiny darkened spots on spine, and a 1 1/2" dark spot on bottom of back cover next to gutter. Minor abrasion to top corner edge of back cover. Sometime during the 20th century, someone constructed a black cardboard slipcase and a matching cardboard sleeve to house the book, which has protected it very well. Sam Hill as an American English emphatic euphemism for 'Hell' (in exasperation) is by 1839. Sam Browne in reference to a type of belt with shoulder strap is by 1915, from Sir Samuel James Browne (1824-1901), the British general who invented it. Original chestnut cloth on boards with beige paper title label glued to the front cover. proper name, typically a shortening of Samuel (q.v.).