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Spoofs / edited by Richard Butler Glaenzer.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glaenzer, Richard Butler, 1876-1937, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American wit and humor.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Penn Provenance:
- Carnegie Public Library (Shawnee, Oklahoma) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Robert M. McBride & Company, 1933.
- Contents:
- A financial deal / by Don Marquis
- Confessions of a man who camped out / by Burges Johnson
- The fall of the house wedding usher / by Fairfax Downey
- An Englishman proposes / by Wilfred J. Funk
- The fairy godfather / by G.B. Shaw
- The cynic / by Helen Burnham
- Man alone / by Wolcott Gibbs
- Wagon-lits / by Christopher Morley
- An Oliver for a Doris / by Oliver Herford
- Athletes and a presidential campaign / by George S. Chappell
- The ass in the lion's skin / by Gelett Burgess
- Graft elimination / by Ellis Parker Butler
- The B.M.T. / by Arthur Guiterman.
- That was Fifth Avenue / by J. Bryan, III
- Amendment / by Dorothy Ann Blank
- Why telephone bills are so high / by Don Herold
- Charity drives / by Wallace Irwin
- Why the flowers are wild / by William Rose Benét
- A night with a ticket speculator / by Robert H. Davis
- The adventure of the murdered art editor / by Frederic Dorr Steele
- Being visited / by James Montgomery Flagg
- The perfumery ad-writer complains to his landlord / by Berton Braley
- At the hands of parties unknown / by Earl H. Emmons
- She was a success with men / by Helen Burnham
- The irony of the thing / by James Schnozzola Durante
- Confessions of a man who doesn't own a dog / by Burges Johnson
- I shall marry Ralph / by Helen Burnham
- Is the stomach coming back? / by H.W. Hanemann.
- The merry doctors / by Gelett Burgess
- Oh, Doctor! / by Wilfred J. Funk
- Fellow-craftsmen / by Christopher Morley
- Herodotus did not lie / by T. Walter Williams
- Lines on declaring an extra dividend or two / by Margaret Fishback
- Great financiers I have known / by Burton Rascoe
- Wall Street / by Wilfred J. Funk
- Capitol hill-billy / by Lawton Mackall
- Dinner of a poetry society / by Wilfred J. Funk
- Julian Street's price / by Julian Street
- Off with the dance / by Wallace Irwin
- Mother's helper / by Wilfred J. Funk
- The financial structure / by Ellis Parker Butler
- Et ego in Arcadia / by F.P.A.
- A failure story to buck you up / by Don Herold
- Valedictory, Class of 1933 / by J.P. McEvoy.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "First published, August, 1933."
- Signatures in red on endpapers.
- Orange cloth boards decorated in black on front cover and lettered on spine. Top edge stained black.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy has catalog card written in ms. laid in.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "Presented to Carnegie Public Library of Shawnee Oklahoma by Burton Rascoe author of piece on p. 211".
- Culture Class Collection copy has title of essay by Burton Rascoe in table of contents underlined.
- OCLC:
- 1835227
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