Search Results: Humor from Good Old Books

Burlington, Wi.: Burlington Liars' Club, 1934 17 pages, illustrated. "Compliments of Gilbert A Karcher" on front free end page. A lawyer in Burlington.

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1872 137 pages, half inch slit in cloth along groove, rear end page has a closed rip, some stains to pages. Santa Claus frolic and other funny skits: "The thiteen dialogues in this book were published in Oliver Optic's Magazine. They have been revised by the author, and are issued in their present form for greater convenience.They can be used for school exhibitions or private theatricals, on a platform, or with the accesories of sceneries and costumes. Some are designed for very young folks, while others have been performed, with great sucess, by older people, in amateur theatricals. Their length and variety of characters make them very desirable for laughable after pieces."

New York & London: Harper & Bros., 1927 313 pages, backstrip faded, stain on back board, pages browning, corner of page 91 torn off, page 241 had a corner folded.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932 315 pages, dust jacket shows some soiling.

New York: Brentano's, 1923 212 pages, rear board has a stain, bottom of backstrip has a tear.

Reseda, California: PNP, 1993 210 pages, boards has minor rubbing.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1933 The MacHine as a Subject of Satire. 104 pages, dust jacket bright and clean with inch loss to back bottom edge, and some chipping. Seen many 2016 books in worse condition.

Philadelphia: David Mckay, 1899 501 pages, nice clean bright boards.

Leipzig: Paul List 158 pages, plus five pages of adverts. A really neat binding with a green embossed beetle. Silk marker. Red edged all around. Quite decorative, not sure if first, no date.

New York: John Day Company, 1939 163 pages, about inch missing from backstrip of dust jacket, minor stains to cloth.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956 148 pages, small tears.

Madison, Wi.: By the Author, 1921 136 pages, cloth is bubbling slightly on cover otherwise clean and tight.

New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1968 Unpaginated, tight clean.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872 227 pages, a very few spots on foxing, and one small dent to the bottom edge of the purple-ish illustrated boards. Quite pretty and would look great on your shelf...

New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1931 519 pages, nice color illustrations, #729/ 100 in the United States. Very subtle stains on boards, solid- tight binding.

Chicago: Patrcik J. Barret, 1936 89 pages~ unpaginated home spun humor and profundity, illustrated. very subtle wear stains.

New York: Laugh Club, 1933 274 pages, a closed major tear on dust jacket, backstrip of dust jacket soiled.

Kobenhavn: Kristian Vissing, 1867 323 pages, Dutch language, three quarter leather.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961 223 pages, front of dust jacket has some loss. Red book proper very clean with one very small stain.

Milwaukee: Self Published, 1983 129 pages, illustrated, signed To Michelle- I hope you enjoy this. It was fun to write. (un-dephipherable signature) therefore I believe it is the author, but not positive. Funny, thought provoking.