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A book of American prose humor : being a collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches, etc. (1904)

Author: Stone, Melville E., b. 1875; Herbert S. Stone & Company
Subject: American wit and humor; Comedy sketches
Publisher: Chicago : Herbert S. Stone & Co.
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: srlf_ucla:LAGE-3120884
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: University of California Libraries
Collection: cdl; americana

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The Shakers ; A business letter / Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) -- Oats ; Our oldest inhabitants--two of them / Josh Billings (Henry W. Shaw) -- The interviewer ; Scotty Briggs and the clergyman / Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) -- Milling in Pompeii ; All about oratory ; My mine / Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) -- Samantha at Saratoga / Josiah Allen's wife (Marietta Holley) -- Chimmie meets the Duchess ; Chimmie enters polite society / E.W. Townsend -- The genial idiot on the four hundred / John Kendrick Bangs --"Checker's" letter / Henry M. Blossom, Jr. -- The fable of the two mandolin players and the willing performer ; Claudie / George Ade -- On the French character ; On the Victorian era ; On golf / Mr. Dooley (F.P. Dunne) -- In the country / Hayden Caruth -- John Henry on butting-in ; Mr. and Mrs. Dinkelspiel discuss literary matters ; Dinkelspiel explains the Dreyfus case / George V. Hobart -- At the opera ; In love / Billie Baxter (W.J. Kountz, Jr.)

Kramer, S. Stone & Kimball & Herbert S. Stone & Co. bib., 1893-1905

Spec. Coll. copies 1-2 are part of a collection (Collection 1607). To page these items, use the collection record; to find the collection record, search the title: Gullans-Espey Collection of Designer Bookbindings. Items are in box 18. Olive gabardine cloth, stamped in gilt; titling and miniature comic mask ornament within small double-rule frame on front cover; top edge gilt. Gift of Charles Gullans and John Espey, 1986

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