This work contains in its 320 pages, some thirty of the most amusing articles we have ever perused, redolent with not only humor, but with wisdom and pathos; the happiest days and most innocent recreations of our youth are here recalled.
Dr. Valentine's Comic Lectures. A Budget of Wit and Humor; or, Morsels of Mirth for the Melancholy. A certain cure for the Blues, and all other serious complaints. Comprising Comic Lectures on Heads, Faces, Noses, Mouths, Animal Magnetism, etc., with Specimens of Eloquence, Transactions of Learned Societies, Delineations of Eccentric Characters, Comic Songs, etc., etc. By Dr. W. VALENTINE, the favorite delineator of Eccentric Characters. Illustrated with twelve portraits of Dr. Valentine in his most celebrated characters. 12mo.,
Cloth, gilt 1 00 Ornamented paper cover price 50 Dr. Valentine's Comic Metamorphoses. Being the second series of Dr. Valentine's Lectures, with characters as given by the late Yankee Hill. Embellished with numerous portraits.
Ornamental Paper Cover 50 Cloth, gilt price 1 00 Laughable Adventures of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson, showing where they went, and how they went; what they did, and how they did it. With nearly 200 most thrillingly comic engravings. price 25
Laughing Gas. An Encyclopedia of Wit, Wisdom and Wind. By SAM SLICK, Jr. Comically illustrated with 103 original and laughable engravings, and near 500 side-extending jokes, and other things to get fat on; and the best of it is, that everything about the book is new and fresh—all new; new designs, new stories, new type—no comic almanac stuff. It will be found a complete antidote to "hard times." price 25
The Courtship of Chevalier Sly-Fox-Wikoff, showing his heart-rending, astounding, and most wonderful love adventures with Fanny Elssler and Miss Gambol. Illustrated with 200 comic engravings price $0 25
The Extraordinary and Mirth-Provoking Adventures by Sea and Land, of Oscar Shanghai. Illustrated by nearly 200 comic engravings price 25
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All told in a series of nearly two hundred of the most risible, quizzible, provoking, peculiar, saucy and spicy cuts ever gathered within the leaves of any one book. All fond of a hearty laugh, here is amusement for many a merry hour.
Charley White's Ethiopian Joke Book. Being a perfect Casket of Fun, the first and only work of the kind ever published. Containing a full expose of all the most laughable Jokes, Stories, Witticisms, &c., as told by the celebrated Ethiopian Comedian, Charles White. 18mo., 94 pages price 12 1⁄2
Black Wit and Darkey Conversations. By Charles White. Containing a large collection of Laughable Anecdotes, Jokes, Stories, Witticisms, and Darkey Conversations. 18mo., price 12 1⁄2
Chips from Uncle Sam's Jack Knife. Illustrated with over one hundred Comical Engravings, and comprising a collection of over 500 Laughable Stories, Funny Adventures, Comic Poetry, Queer Conundrums, Terrific Puns, Witty Sayings, Sublime Jokes and Sentimental Sentences. The whole being a most perfect portfolio for those who love to laugh. Large Octavo price 25
The Comical Adventures of David Dufficks. Illustrated with over 100 Funny engravings. Large Octavo, price 25
Yale College Scrapes; or How the Boys Go It at New Haven. price 25
This is a book of 114 pages, containing accounts of all the noted and famous "Scrapes" and "Sprees," of which students at Old Yale have been guilty for the last quarter of a century.
The Comic Wandering Jew. Full of Fun and containing 100 Humorous engravings price 25
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