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Masterpieces of wit and humor : containing all that is best in the literature of laughter of all nations / with stories and an introduction by Robert J. Burdette ... ; with illustrations by Frederick Opper, John T. McCutcheon, Robert L. Dickey, Charles Lederer, Ike Morgan, R.C. Bowman, G.W. Rehse, Bryan Walker, Hugh von Hafsten, Chas. Nelan and other famous cartoonists.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American wit and humor.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Birdwhistell, Robert Nevins, family of (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xxv, xlii-xlviii pages, 47 unnumbered pages-514 pages (first 2 pages blank), 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : L.G. Stahl, [1903]
- Notes:
- Colored frontispiece and plate between p. [xvi] and xvii. Illustrations with portraits of literary authors on p. [47], [48], [65], [66], [83], [84], [101], [102], [119], [120], [137], [138], [155], [156], [173], [191], [192], [209], [210], [227], [228], [245], [246], [263], [264], [281], [299], [300], [317], [318], [335], [336], [353], [354], [371], [372], [389], [390], [407], [408], [425], [426], [444], [461] and [462], some photographic. Cartoon illustrations throughout.
- Includes Samuel Clemens' New ideas on farming, p. 55-56; The funeral of "Buck" Fanshaw, p. 87-89; Tom Sawyer's whitewashing job, p. 111-112; Wanted to see a woman, p. 378; Did not hurt the mule, p. 412-413.
- Cited in:
- BAL 2013
- OCLC:
- 10721767
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