Auction 39 · Lot 42
(ANTISEMITICA)
- Estimate
- $400–$600
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
New York
Publication
v.d
Description
Group of seven Jewish Joke-Books: Yankee, Hebrew and Italian Dialect Readings and Recitations. 1891. * Wehman's Budget of Jewish Jokes. 1905. * Combination Prize Joker No. 1. 1906. * Hebrew Jokes No. 1. 1906). * Hebrew Jokes and Characteristics. Cleveland, 1908). * Hebrew Jokes No. 2. 1910. * Hebrew Yarns: Jokes and Stories. 1919
summary
Rudolf Glanz in his “The Jew in Early American Wit and Graphic Humor” (1973), restricted his study to “highbrow” publications such as Life and Puck, neglecting a vast underclass of literature such as the Jewish joke-books offered in the present Lot
Original pictorial wrappers, some wear. 12mo and 8vo
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