Witcracks: jokes and jests from American folklore /

Traces the history and gives examples of puns, shaggy-dog stories, and other jokes from American humor of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-1992
Other Authors: Rounds, Glen, 1906-2002
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Lippincott, [1973]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Subjects:
Description
Summary:Traces the history and gives examples of puns, shaggy-dog stories, and other jokes from American humor of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Physical Description:128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Bibliography: pages 121-125.
ISBN:0397314752
0397314760 (pbk.)