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London:: Ball, Arnold & Co., etc., 1839. 12mo, 3/4 calf, marbled boards. Pp. 72. Boards rubbed, lacking front endpaper, occasional stain; a sound copy. A rare English collection of Yankee jokes and anecdotes, mostly culled from American newspapers. Sometimes attributed to Thomas Chandler Haliburton, creator of Sam Slick, but perhaps just capitalizing on his popularity, at any rate with a preface certainly in his style. There seems to have been no American publication of this work. Not in Sabin or BLC; O... more information

New York: Geo. Robertson, 1832. 12mo, original boards, cloth spine, printed cover label. PP. vi, 164. Printed spine label wanting, general soiling and running marginal stain, still a good, sound copy in original state. Second edition, enlarged. The first edition (Brooklyn 1829) is quite a rare book, this second edition not much less so. The work went on through numerous editions to be one of the most popular gardening books of 19th century America. This edition contains a new preface, with interesting infor... more information