~Dick's Stump Speeches and Minstrel Jokes.~ Containing Short and
side-splitting Negro Acts and Farces, Eccentric Sketches, Stump
Speeches, Darkey Lectures, End-Men's Jokes and Gags, Burlesque
Sermons, Funny Dialogues, and everything necessary for a series of
first-class Minstrel Entertainments; including the latest
excruciations of modern Negro-Minstrelsy, and a number of startling
originalities, risible rib-ticklers and hysterical button-starters.
Paper ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~
~Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches.~
Containing an inexhaustible collection of End-Men's Jokes.
_Negro Interludes and Farces_;
_Fresh Dialogues for Interlocutor and Banjo_;
_New Stump Speeches_;
_Humorous Lectures_;
_Dialect Sketches and Eccentricities_;
_Dialogues and Repartee for Interlocutor and Bones_;
_Quaint Burlesque Sermons_;
_Jokes, Quips and Gags_.
Paper covers ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~
~Tambo's End-Men's Minstrel Gags.~ Containing some of the best jokes
and repartees of the most celebrated "burnt cork" performers of our
day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. Also
containing a rich collection of Darkey Dialogues, Sketches, Plantation
Scenes, Eccentric Doings, Humorous Lectures, Laughable Interludes,
Burlesque Stump Speeches, Mirth-provoking Witticisms, Conundrums,
Yarns, Plantation Songs and Dances, etc., etc. Everything new and
rich.
Paper covers ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~
~Brudder Bones' Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations.~
Also containing Humorous Lectures, Ethiopian Dialogues, Plantation
Scenes, Negro Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic
Recitations, interspersed with Dutch, Irish, French and Yankee
Stories. This book contains some of the best hits and mirth-provoking
jokes and repartees of the most celebrated End-Men of the day. Paper
covers.
Price ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~
~Howard's Book of Conundrums and Riddles.~ Containing over 1,200
of the best Conundrums, Riddles, Enigmas, Ingenious Catches and
Amusing Sells ever invented. This splendid collection of curious
paradoxes will afford the material for a never-ending feast of fun and
amusement. Any person, with the assistance of this book, may take the
lead in entertaining a company, and keep them in roars of laughter for
hours together.
Paper covers ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~
~Rowan's Riddles and Conundrums.~ A very choice gathering of Ancient,
Modern, and quite recent Riddles and Conundrums, quaintly arranged,
for amusement and merriment on opportune occasions. A first-rate
pocket companion for Picnics and Winter Evenings.
~15 cts.~
~Dick's Book of Alphabets.~ Containing a great variety of designs
for plain and Fanciful Alphabets, Numerals and illuminated Initial
letters in various colors, and elegant in style. It includes specimens
of modern Ornamental designs, and of the ancient grotesque, Arabesque,
and other eccentric devices for decoration and illumination, mainly
gathered from rare old vellums and scarce books of past centuries.
This work will be appreciated by Architects, Decorators, Designers,
Draughtsmen, etc.