Includes Material Dod Grile (1 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. Undated, The British Library date this book to 1876, two books bound in one leather bound volume. The First book is a book of American Jokes; this runs to 164 pages illustrated with line drawings. It is known that Dod Grile (the pseudonym of Ambrose Bierce) had several jokes and pieces of humor published in Awful Crammers: A New American Joke Book, The second book also by the same author also has American interest, this runs to 230 pages. The American Joke Book is particularly scare. The book is bound in an old half leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, and measures around 6.5 inches tall approx. CONDITION The book has general edge wear rubbing, some surface wear to the marbled paper else the binding is in good solid condition. internally there are several crossed out old ownership names to the front endpapers, and one to the title page. There is heavy foxing and browning to a few pages, but most of the pages are free of foxing, there is corner creasing to a few pages, one page stands slightly proud of the text block but it is firmly attached.