Mose Skinner's Grand World's Jubilee and Humstrum Convulsion

  • Boston: Published by the New England News Company / Printed by Warren Richardson, 1872
By Mose Skinner [pseud. James E. Brown]
Boston: Published by the New England News Company / Printed by Warren Richardson, 1872. Very Good. Boston: Published by the New England News Company / Printed by Warren Richardson, 1872. First Edition. Octavo; 24pp. Illustrated sewn wrappers. Edgewear, staining, and spotting to wraps; binding sound; interior unmarked; Very Good.

Scarce follow-up to Brown's 1869 bit of post-bellum humor "Our Great Peace Festival and Pow-Wow." This Humstrum Convulsion promises to be bigger and better, "a regular screamer, an apoplectic, swelled-up sort of thing," featuring hurdy-gurdies, musical clams, fiddles, and the like. Full of word-play and a never-ending stream of jokes from the cheap to the satirical and absurd. No copies in retail at time of this writing.

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