Title: Dick's Ethiopian Scenes Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Published
Size: 4.5" X6.5"
Publisher: New York Dick & Fitzgerald 1872
Seller ID: 000898
178 pp with an additional 20 pp of advertisements for other "Dick's" publications. The title page describes it as containing "End Men's Jokes, Negro Interludes and Farces, Fresh Dialogues for Interloctor and Banjo, New Stump Speeches, Humerous Lectures, Dialect Sketches and Eccentricities, Quaint Burlesque Sermons, and Jokes, Quips and Gags. Text is clean and unmarked, coming loose from the spine, yellowed. The boards are cardboard with a cloth spine, cover has a characture of a blackface comedian giving a stump speech, back has still more Dick's publication for sale. Boards are bumped at corners and edges, lightly faded.
Afro-American Humor-Blackface Humor - Vaudville - Minstral Show
Price =
55.00 USD
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