Anecdota Americana: Five Hundred Stories for the Amusement of the Five Hundred Nations that Comprise America (in dust jacket)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Golden Hind Press, 1933. revised. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardcover in violet cloth with paper title label spine and front cover. The New Revised Edition. 207 pp. Very good in original dust jacket also very good, price clipped and with some edge wear and staining and small chip to the rear panel. Collection of 500 often but not exclusively mildly risque jokes and anecdotes. Here's an example: "Life's Irony: One night with Venus, six months with Mercury"
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E18774
- Title
- Anecdota Americana: Five Hundred Stories for the Amusement of the Five Hundred Nations that Comprise America (in dust jacket)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- revised
- Publisher
- Golden Hind Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- humor, jokes, risque, anecdotes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
TRACKING AND INSURANCE AT OPTION OF BUYER. ON UNINSURED ITEMS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS WITH PROOF OF SHIPPING---NO EXCEPTIONS! Books are returnable if misdescribed; we must be notified within 48 hours of receipt if making a return. We conform to accepted ABAA grading. "First edition" means "first printing" unless noted; if it doesn't say it has a jacket then it doesn't; faults such as ownership signatures, price clipping, etc. will be noted in the listing. Member ABAA, ILAB, ABNJ.
About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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