[Rarebooks] FS: 1896 Road Trip Humor

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

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19. [Roadies]  Drummers’ Yarns; or, Fun on the “Road”. Consisting of 
Modern Humor, Laughable Jokes, Funny Stories, Comic Poetry, and 
Side-Splitting Anecdotes.

Published in New York by Excelsior Publishing House in 1886.

An 1897 advertisement explains- “Drummers’ Yarns- Containing all the 
latest ‘good things’ picked up here and there by our commercial 
travelers. If any one can give you ‘the latest,’ it is the drummer. 
Coursing the country over, and possessing a prodigious personal 
acquaintance amongst railroad conductors, hotel clerks, and salesmen, 
not to speak of his own brotherhood, he has special opportunities for 
the collection of rare anecdotes. This collection of humor is by one of 
the funniest drummers on the ‘road’, and he has requested us not to 
publish his name, for various reasons. Imagine all the laughable stories 
told on the road, to pass away the time, collected together…illustrated 
with most funny engravings, and you will have a fair idea of the book”. 
The apparent first volume in a yearly serial series which ran until 
about 1900. None of the volumes are common; OCLC locates 4 copies of 
this 1886 issue.

Hardcover. 6.75”x8”. 73 pages + publisher’s advertisements. Rebound in 
old marbled boards with a leather spine. Covers worn, spine cracking 
away from the front board from the top. Bound a bit close to the inner 
margin, and several binding cracks, wood-pulp paper pages age toned and 
brittle.  [43002]  $50



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