[Advertising]. “A Customer.”

Ode to My Shoes. By A Customer. [Caption title].

New York City: Hervey’s West-Side Shoe-Store, No. 416 West 125th Street, 1889. First edition. Broadside (9.25 x 5 inches), printed on rough rose paper stock. A little soiled and worn; in very good condition. Item #22642

“You’ve been *worn out,* and *mended* new; When men wear out, they’re *men dead* too.” Fugitive and delightful doggerel verses suggestive of the merits of purchasing new shoes with Hervey’s West-Side Shoe-Store, a delightful subspecies of the street ballad or song sheet.

Price: $200.00