Author: Billings, Josh (Shaw, Henry Wheeler)
Title: Josh Billings' Farmers' Allminax for the Year 1870
Description: G.W. Carleton. New York, G.W. Carleton, 1870. Wraps. Printed wraps. Unpaginated. Small black and white illustrations throughout. A satirical and humorous take on the almanac, containing aphorisms, short humorous essays and other pieces, most all written in dialect. Josh Billings was the pseudonym for Henry Wheeler Shaw, an American humorist of the 19th century, known for incorporating common sense wisdom and wit. POOR/FAIR condition. Wrappers DETACHED from the text block, with the wrappers themselves very tenuously holding on to each other. Ex-historical society, with a blindstamp on the front cover. Heavy chipping and tearing along the wrappers' extremities. Some curling/creasing at the corners. Owner's signature in pencil (Charley Whittlesey) across the top of the front cover. Poor .
Keywords: Noisbn Americana
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Title: Josh Billings' Farmers' Allminax for the Year 1870
Description: G.W. Carleton. New York, G.W. Carleton, 1870. Wraps. Printed wraps. Unpaginated. Small black and white illustrations throughout. A satirical and humorous take on the almanac, containing aphorisms, short humorous essays and other pieces, most all written in dialect. Josh Billings was the pseudonym for Henry Wheeler Shaw, an American humorist of the 19th century, known for incorporating common sense wisdom and wit. POOR/FAIR condition. Wrappers DETACHED from the text block, with the wrappers themselves very tenuously holding on to each other. Ex-historical society, with a blindstamp on the front cover. Heavy chipping and tearing along the wrappers' extremities. Some curling/creasing at the corners. Owner's signature in pencil (Charley Whittlesey) across the top of the front cover. Poor .
Keywords: Noisbn Americana
Price: US$ 16.00 Seller: Mare Booksellers
- Book number: 015341
- Book number: 015341
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