Books with title The Purple Kiss

Whit and Wisty Allgood have finally triumphed over the evil that has long overshadowed their world with their defeat of The One Who Is The One. Now they move on to their next mission: becoming members of a governing council that will return the Overworld to a place of creativity, magic, and freedom from persecution. But it isn't long before the city is threatened from inside and out. The adults on the council want to control the use of magic in the city, and a fearsome wizard king threatens war. As Wisty begins a new relationship with an intense and mysterious boy and the pressures of leading the city bear down on them, Whit and Wisty find themselves growing apart. Will they be able to come together to fight the mounting threats that could return their world to the hands of a tyrant? James Patterson delivers what the fans have been asking for-the story of what happens next-with an epic fourth installment about the heroic teen witch and wizard that have captured our imaginations.

First Edition, first printing. Not paginated, but 8 pages printed on two sides, illustrated by the author with the 8th leaf and thus the back cover being an advertisement for his Lark Magazine which first appeared in May, 1895. The second edition of this book was not printed on both sides of the page and has twice as many pages. This is the author's first works in the year he started his iconoclastic magazine in the same, small pamphlet-size format. Author is credited with giving rise to the word "Blurb." Although he would go to publish for another 40+ years, The Purple Cow! is often considered his greatest works.

The Purple Cow THE PECULIAR HISTORY OF THE CHEWING-GUM MAN. O Willie, an' Wallie, an' Huldy Ann, They went an' built a big CHEWIN'-GUM MAN: It was none o' your teenty little dots, With pinhole eyes an' pencil-spots; But this was a terribul big one--well, 'T was a'most as high as the Palace Hotel! It took 'em a year to chew the gum!! And Willie he done it all, 'cept some That Huldy got her ma to chew, By the time the head was ready to do. Well, Willie he chewed it for days 'n' days; They brung it to him in gret big drays; An' fast as he got it good an' soft, Then Wallie he come and carried it oft. Then he'd roll it into a gret big ball, An' he made a-more'n a MILLION in all! Then Huldy Ann she spanked 'em flat An' pinched an' poked, an' the like o' that, Till she got it inter a gret big hunk-- My! didn't Huldy have the spunk! And then she sliced one end half-way To make the laigs ('cause they never stay When you stick 'em on in a seprit piece-- Seems like the ends was made o' grease); And she slit an arm right up each side,-- I couldn't a done it if I'd a tried! O' course, her brothers they helped her, though, An' rolled the arms an' laigs out, so They all was smooth with roundin' bends An' chopped the fingers inter the ends! An' when their mother had chewn the head, She went an' stuck it on, instead!

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