Anonymous

A Collection of 18 Mid-20th-Century Adult Humor Booklets

S. l. Grayko, 1946. First Edition. Eighteen booklets; 4 x 2 3/4; pp. [15], including text to back wrap and front wrap verso; beige paper, printed, ruled, and illustrated in black; all of them with a dark spot around staple on top edge, else minor creasing and wear; in about very good- condition. An unusual collection of mild, adult humor, only identified by an elusive publisher (Grayko), in each small booklet - every page contained a single-panel cartoon with a small caption below it. Titles included: "Belly Laffs," "Hot Stuff," "Whoopee," "Funland," etc. Very good .

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Book number: 002663

Catalogue: Humor

Keywords: Adult Humor, Cartoons

Anonymous

The Effects of Flattery

S. l. s. n. 1850. Hand-colored collage, n. d. (1850s); single sheet with several die-cuts pasted on; a few faint spots to margins and a light offset to verso; light wear to edges and corners; in very good condition. A humorous piece of victorian art, from an unknown publication, but most probably British, it consisted of two compositions - showing the positive effects of flattery. The first one featured an old beggar lady managing to wrangle money out of a gentleman; the second one pictured two gentlemen - a playwright and his friend, the latter managing to secure tickets for himself and his family to the newest comedy. Very good .

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Book number: 003350

Catalogue: Humor

Keywords: Victorian Humor

(Dunne, Finley Peter)

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War

London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1899. Early edition. Early, possibly-pirated edition; 7 x 4 3/4; pp. [5], viii-xiv, [3], 18-232; beige wraps, printed and illustrated in black and white; a bit of rubbing to tips of spine; small nicks to corners of wraps; a few minor spots of foxing, mostly to first several leaves; very good condition. Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936) was an American author and humorist, who would be remembered for his nationally-sindicated Mr. Dooley sketches (a fictional Irish-American bartender, whose commentaries covered various national and international events, including the Spanish-American War and its aftermath). A collection of Mr. Dooley pieces, the current "Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War," was published in book form in 1898 to great acclaim. Allegedly, it became popularin the US so quickly, a number of British publishers pirated the book and released it in Great Britain to another great success. In fact, in 1899, Dunne dedicated his second book - "Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of His Countrymen" - "To Sir George Newnes, Bart, Messrs. George Routledge and Sons, Limited, and other publishers who uninvited presented Mr. Dooley to a part of the British public." . Very good .

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Book number: 002634

Catalogue: Humor

Keywords: Humor, World Events

Mike the Moron

Snappy Stories. For Men Only

S. l. s. n. 1940. Revised Edition. Revised edition, n. d. (ca 1940); 6 3/4 x 5; pp. [63]; lithographed wraps; illustrated with numerous black and white drawings; chips to corners of front wrap and tips of spine with small loss of paper; some leaves dogeared; general age-toning; a few scattered spots, mostly to margins of pages; good condition. An amusing little pulp publication, it combined short stories, jokes, and illustrations of risque humor, gallows humor, and just plain old silliness, to entertain the masses in the first half of the 20th centiry. Good .

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Book number: 002659

Catalogue: Humor

Keywords: Humor

Senko, H.

Shtany Latani U Klitku - Vykonuem Piatylitku... .

Buenos Aires, Peremoha, 1950. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1950); 7 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-34; orange pictorial wraps; illustrated with numerous caricatures; uniform age-toning to text; spine with a few minor nicks to paper; very good condition. An unusual and amusing collection of folk art, rhymes, satirical songs, etc. the book mocked Stalin, his Five-Year-Plan, and his using folklore as means to control people. Very good .

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Book number: 002796

Catalogue: Humor

Keywords: Folklore, Humor, Ukraine, Emigre

Worth, Thomas

A New Jersey Fox Hunt. "a Smoking Run

S. l. s. n. 1876. Lithographed broadside, n. d. (ca 1876); 11 3/4 x 16 1/2; thick, card stock backing; a few small spots of foxing to margins; several small, closed cuts to edges; in about very good condition. Published by at least two publishers - Currier & Ives in New York and S. Lipschitz & Son in London (the current copy published anonymously - possibly pirated), the humorous image was created by prolific magazine and book illustrator and one of the foremost artists for Currier & Ives - New York-native Thomas Worth (1834 - 1917). He would be best remembered for his comical genre scenes; however, it has also been said that his depictions of African-Americans were usually racist and demeaning. The current broadside pictured a boy with a big cigar in his mouth, on a galloping donkey, with baying dogs following. Very good .

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Book number: 004202

Catalogue: Humor

Keywords: Humor