A Treasury of American Anecdotes : sly, salty, shaggy stories of heroes and hellions, beguilers and buffoons, spellbinders and scapegoats, gagsters and gossips, from the grassroots and sidewalks of America / edited, with introduction and commentary of B. A. Botkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975, editor.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anecdotes.

American wit and humor.

Genre:

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 321 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bonanza Books [a division of Crown Publishers, Inc.], [1957]

Contents:

Introduction

Cracker barrel

God's country

Newsomers and damn fools

Melting pot and pressure cooker

Cool customers

A passel of fools

Whopper wit

"The Gospel according to Joe Miller"

Heroes without haloes

Spellbinders and bureaucrats

Fable and foible

Spun yarn

Barnyard and barroom

Wit's end.

Notes:

"This edition is published by Bonanza Books a division of Crown Publishers, Inc. by arrangement with the author."

"Jacket design by Mitch Havemeyer and Hoyt Howard."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

Potok Collection copy is "a" printing.

OCLC:

2770546