Paper covers ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~
~Brudder Bones' Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations.~ Also containing Humorous Lectures, Ethiopian Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic Recitations, interspersed with Dutch, Irish, French and Yankee Stories. This book contains some of the best hits and mirth-provoking jokes and repartees of the most celebrated End-Men of the day. Paper covers.
Price ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~
~Howard's Book of Conundrums and Riddles.~ Containing over 1,200 of the best Conundrums, Riddles, Enigmas, Ingenious Catches and Amusing Sells ever invented. This splendid collection of curious paradoxes will afford the material for a never-ending feast of fun and amusement. Any person, with the assistance of this book, may take the lead in entertaining a company, and keep them in roars of laughter for hours together.
Paper covers ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~
~Rowan's Riddles and Conundrums.~ A very choice gathering of Ancient, Modern, and quite recent Riddles and Conundrums, quaintly arranged, for amusement and merriment on opportune occasions. A first-rate pocket companion for Picnics and Winter Evenings.
~Dick's Book of Alphabets.~ Containing a great variety of designs for plain and Fanciful Alphabets, Numerals and illuminated Initial letters in various colors, and elegant in style. It includes specimens of modern Ornamental designs, and of the ancient grotesque, Arabesque, and other eccentric devices for decoration and illumination, mainly gathered from rare old vellums and scarce books of past centuries. This work will be appreciated by Architects, Decorators, Designers, Draughtsmen, etc.
~Dick's Parlor Exhibitions, and How to Make them Successful.~ Containing complete and detailed directions for preparing and arranging Parlor Exhibitions and Amateur Performances. It includes:
_Tableaux Vivants._ _Living Portraits._ _Living Statuary._ _Dame History's Peep Show._ _Shadow Pantomimes._ _Popular Ballads illustrated by appropriate action._ _Charades of all kinds._ _Parlor Pantomimes._ _Punch and Judy._
AND FIFTY OTHER DIVERTING PARLOR PASTIMES AND AMUSEMENTS.