The listing, Grandpa's Rib-Ticklers and Knee Slappers (Jokes and Stories (some bawdy) From America's Past has ended.
Good condition, cover has edge scratch (see photo). Smoke-free home. 410 pages, paperback.
This superb book includes humor that has always made America laugh - from colonial days through Mark Twain's generation - 300 years of "a laughing people".
Chapters:
1. Tall Tales, Windies and Whoppers
2. Jokes from 1842-1912
3. Colonial and Frontier Humor, a Rare Vintage
4. A Gallery of Fearsome Critters
5. Oh, Thos Phunny Phellows!
6. Abraham Lincoln’s Stories
7. Humor after the Civil War
8. The Bawdy Part
A Selected List for Further Reading.