1949; "Reprint Edition 1949" (from the original 1947 edition); illustrated by Leo Hershfield; Garden City Publishing Co, New York; hardbound in blue textured boards with red lettering; very good condition with unmarked pages; very small ding (indentation) on spine; no dust jacket.
 
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"This book rounds up some of the most telling examples of the American sense of humor during our age of great laughter--from Revolutionary times when its voice began to burst out clearly, through the turmoil of the Frontier and Civil War periods when it was at its most exuberant, to the 1890's when it was in danger of prattling itself into whimsy and commercial jokesmithing." -page xi.