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1 (Humorous Auction Poster)...one mile north of Wart Factory...east of Apendicitis Farm.
N.p. c.1900 17 x 12" 
The sheep incl. Hampshire Ram w/detachable rims(!); one polard China Bull(!), seven hens (can vote), one Jersey Red Hired Girl. Some mends, some tears to cardboard stock. Great to copy. (3816574062) 
Price: 150.00 USD
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2 AETNA, VOLUME XIX, #2, JANUARY 1887.
Hartford, CT large 4to 
News sheet, might as well tell you this is not my favorite Insurance Co. But we’ve offered materials of a controversial or unpopular nature on religion, politics & sexuality. Some humor “Arboreal Ins. Co.” where oak is called to the chair, takes a bough, but complains of a corn. He was given leaf to withdraw. Social. Commerce. (3352768659) 
Price: 22.50 USD
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3 DIE ILLUSTRIRTE WELT
Stuttgart 1869/70 4TO(sm folio) 
612pp. Three quarter leather & black cl., rubbed; top 3" bkstrp chipped, front cover w/old discoloration. Text embrowned. Most issues w/a full and part page woodcuts of native art, life and wisdom. No copy on net of this year of this title. U.S. Ppaid. (5476057206) 
Price: 110.00 USD
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4 DIE ILLUSTRIRTE WELT
Stuttgart 1871 4to(sm folio) 
636pp. Three quarter leather & mrbld bds., well rubbed. Text embrowned. Most issues w/a full and part page woodcuts of native art, life and wisdom. No copy on net of this year of this title. U.S. Ppaid. (5476300152) 
Price: 110.00 USD
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5 SCRAPBOOK. VOL. 1 #6-8, NOV. 8-NOV. 22, 1834.

A short lived literary periodical, issued here as MISCELLANEOUS SCRAPBOOK, it published until Jan, 1836. Contains some of the humor of the times. First issue edges well frayed. For the three.... (3341470188) 
Price: 25.00 USD
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6 STUDIES IN AMERICAN HUMOR NEW SERIES. VOL. I, #1.
San Marcos, TX 1982 
76pp. Lib. stamp on front wrp. Incls 2 essays on Mark Twain & one on Davy Crocket. (3536133396) 
Price: 22.50 USD
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7 Two issues--October and November, 1922.
4to 
Single side mimeo, stapled. North Carolina State Highway Dept publ. w/wry humor. For the two... (3576664887) 
Price: 22.50 USD
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8 UBER LAND UND MEER - ALLGEMEINE ILLUSTRIRTE ZEITUNG
Stuttgart 1869/70 folio 
ca. 800pp. 496 pp., 27-52 (issues). Three quarter leather & black cl., expected rubbing. This is volume 23 & 24 of this famous banner of ethnicity. Most issues w/two full or one double page wood cut illus. Because of page size, even a half p. illus. would be 8 x 8". Usual travel, scenic, artistic, military or seasonal. Initial leaves embrowned but text is remarkably free of foxing. Free e.p. creased. Don't forget chess & humor. Please note that single vols. (26 weeks) priced on net to three hundred. Pp U.S. (5474963949) 
Price: 185.00 USD
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9 UBER LAND UND MEER - ALLGEMEINE ILLUSTRIRTE ZEITUNG
Stuttgart 1870/71 folio 
ca. 800pp. Three quarter leather & black cl., good. Vermining to rear paste down edge (only). After issue 52 a leaf has been removed, possibly an extra for one who bought complete vol. Issue 19 has 4 pp loose, some creasing. This is volume 25 & 26 of this famous banner of ethnicity. Several illus. & text articles about Franco Prussian War. Most issues w/two full or one double page wood cut illus. Because of page size, even a half p. illus. would be 8 x 8". Usual travel, scenic, artistic, military or seasonal. Initial leaves embrowned but text is remarkably free of foxing. Free e.p. creased. Don't forget chess & humor. Please note that single vols. (26 weeks) priced on net to three hundred. Ppaid U.S. (5475935733) 
Price: 185.00 USD
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10 UBER LAND UND MEER - ALLGEMEINE ILLUSTRIRTE ZEITUNG
Stuttgart 1867/68 folio 
ca. 400pp. Three quarter leather & black cl., well rubbed. Bkstrp missing bottom 4", covers attached by threads. Cartoons by Burch. Most issues w/two full or one double page wood cut illus. Because of page size, even a half p. illus. would be 8 x 8". Usual travel, scenic, artistic, military or seasonal. Free e.p. creased. Don't forget chess & humor. Please note that single vols. (26 weeks) priced on net to three hundred. Ppaid U.S. (5475976224) 
Price: 135.00 USD
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11 UBER LAND UND MEER - ALLGEMEINE ILLUSTRIRTE ZEITUNG
Stuttgart 1866/67 folio 
ca. 400pp. Three quarter leather & black cl., well rubbed. Bkstrp missing, covers attached by threads. Cartoons by Burch. Most issues w/two full or one double page wood cut illus. Because of page size, even a half p. illus. would be 8 x 8". Usual travel, scenic, artistic, military or seasonal. Free e.p. creased. Don't forget chess & humor. Please note that single vols. (26 weeks) priced on net to three hundred. Ppaid U.S. (5476016715) 
Price: 135.00 USD
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12 (Kelly, Walt) POGO - THE OKEFENOKEE STAR
Bridgeport, CT 1977/82 4to 
ca. 150pp. The first seven issues of the fanzine, including the scarce second issue. Wrps, all fine. 1-7 vol. (5608159094) 
Price: 125.00 USD
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13 (Ottenheimer, Irve) Ott, Irv ON A FAST TRAIN THROUGH TEXAS.
Baltimore (1905) 
90pp. I. & M. Ottenheimer, publ. Wrps, front cvr pretty nice for this type of publ. V.g., lt rubbing at bkstrp. Humor. (4232659578) 
Price: 35.00 USD
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14 (Pullen, H. W.) THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL SHOWING HOW THE GERMAN BOY THRASHED THE FRENCH BOY, AND HOW THE ENGLISH BOY LOOKED ON AND LAUGHED.
Phila. 1871 
24pp. Clay-coated paper wrps. Several eds are known, but OCLC locates just three. The instant book people (add money) offer a reprint at 74 dollars. Travel. (4893918099) 
Price: 65.00 USD
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15 (Strong, George A.) THE SONG OF MILKANWATHA.
Cincinnati 1856 
144pp. Second ed. Trans. from the orig. Feejee by Marc Anthony Henderson. Has a 60-p. addition of the spoofs. V.g. (4982755353) 
Price: 47.50 USD
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16 Antrim, Minna Thomas JESTER LIFE AND HIS MARIONETTES
Phila 1908 12mo 
109pp. First ed. Bkstrp legible but faded. Several full p. illus., "H. C. M.". Wry humor. Copies on line to fifty. (5666749571) 
Price: 17.50 USD
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17 Armour, Richard Collection of 16 titles by Richard Armour.
NY 1972+ 
Seven are hardback (one w/out d.j.) & nine are paperbacks. Two are INSCRIBED & SIGNED. Thirteen are 1st ed. or 1st paperback eds. All re good to v.g. (used), one paperback has one leaf w/discoloration & one signature loose. A Diabolical Dictionary of Education, A Short History of Sex, American Lit Relit, Armour's Almanac, Classics, Drug Store Days, English Lit Relit, Going Around in Academic Circles, It All Would Have Startled Columbus, It All Started With Columbus, Light Armour, Medical Muse, My Life With Women, Out of My Mind, Punctured Pomes, & Through Darkest Adolescence. AUTOGRAPH. 16 vol. (4641335241) 
Price: 200.00 USD
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18 B., A. G. Cartoon of sporting expedition.
np. c.1890 10 x 11" 
Brown ink on paper laid down on board. A short pantsed officer type is saying, "Now Gentlemen I think I'm fixed" and stands aboard a wharf wagon loaded with 600 lbs of shot, Riley's Wadding, Curtis & Harvey powder, Armstrong & Co. fishing tackle. In the background a National Line vessel appears moored with curious crew and passengers peering overboard. (5637596051) 
Price: 75.00 USD
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19 Bailey, Nathan DIVERS PROVERBS.
New Haven, CT 1917 
ix(3)83pp. No details on author. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by John Pixley Clement, bookseller & historian of Vermont and w/some Clementiania laid in. V.g., ˝ pseudo vellum & marbled paper over bds. Bailey was an early 18th century Lexicograper, who introduced proverbs (collected not original) and their meanings and stories as a way of illustrating words. This collection is excerpted from his dictionary. (3772681818) 
Price: 22.50 USD
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20 Baker, George M. A BAKER'S DOZEN: ORIGINAL HUMOROUS DIALOGUES.
Boston & NY (1872) 
137(6)pp. Incls several dialect pieces. Half cl., colorful paper over bds w/expected age soil & rubbing. From Oliver Optic Magazine. (4767464706) 
Price: 75.00 USD
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