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• Irvin Cobb, His Book:: Friendly Tributes upon the Occasion of a Dinner Tendered to Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April Twenty-Fifth, MCMXV (Gutenberg ebook)

• Letters of George Ade (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1973), by George Ade, ed. by Terence Tobin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

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• Crackerbox philosophers in American humor and satire (Columbia University Press, 1925), by Jennette Reid Tandy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crackerbox philosophers in American humor and satire. (Colombia university press, 1925), by Jennette Reid Tandy (page images at HathiTrust)
• My favorite lectures of long ago, for friends who remember. ([The Case, Lockwood & Brainard co., Hartford, Conn., printers], 1898), by Kate Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous funny fellows; brief biographical sketches of American humorists (W.W. Williams, 1882), by William Montgomery Clemens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Billy Baxter's letters. (Duquesne Distributing Co., 1899), by William J. Kountz, George McC Kountz, George McC. Kountz, and Duquesne Distributing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our American humorists (Moffat, Yard and Company, 1922), by Thomas Lansing Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• My favorite lectures of long ago, for friends who remember. ([The Case, Lockwood & Brainard co.,Hartford, Conn., printers], 1898), by Kate Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• R.G. Knowles' knowledge of the world and its ways being a collection of stories told by R.G. Knowles, the peculiar American comedian, and chronicled by Richard Morton : together with a biographical sketch and a critical appreciation by Richard Morton. (Francis, Day, & Hunter;, 1894), by R. G. Knowles and Richard Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amerikanska humorister; ny fölgd. (Seligmann., 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our American humorists (Dodd, Mead and company, 1931), by Thomas L. Masson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fatty Lewis (X) his book ... (The Lechtman Press, 1915), by Arthur Frederick Killick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) a biography and bibliography (Harper & Brothers, 1919), by Don C. Seitz and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) a biography and bibliography (Harper & Brothers, 1919), by Don C. Seitz and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dan. Marble ; a biographical sketch of that famous and diverting humorist, with reminiscences, comicalities, anecdotes, etc., etc. (Dewitt & Davenport, 1851), by Falconbridge, Robert Craighead, Nathaniel Orr, Samuel Wallin, William Croome, Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books, and De Witt & Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
• The people I've smiled with; recollections of a merry little life (Cassell publishing company, 1886), by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short life of Mark Twain (Garden City Pub. Co., 1920), by Albert Bigelow Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (P.F. Collier, 1925), by Mark Twain and Albert Bigelow Paine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mark Twain's Letters (all content published to date in this edited series, covering 1853-1880 so far; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1988-2007), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML with commentary at marktwainproject.org)
• Letters of George Ade (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1973), by George Ade, ed. by Terence Tobin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Letters (Harper & Brothers, 1917), by Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine, and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Kings of the Platform and Pulpit (Chicago et al.: The Werner Co., 1896), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life as a small boy (Simon and Schuster, 1961), by Wally Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wise, witty, eloquent kings of the platform and pulpit (Werner Co., 1893), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
• My favorite lectures of long ago, for friends who remember. ([The Case, Lockwood & Brainard co.,Hartford, Conn., printers], 1898), by Kate Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten wise men, and some more (Atwell Printing and Binding Co., 1909), by William Lightfoot Visscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous funny fellows : Brief biographical sketches of American humorists, by William Montgomery Clemens (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Memoir of Henry Jacob Bigelow ... (Little, Brown, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Command (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922), by William McFee, Country Life Press, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• At the Villa Rose. (B. Tauchnitz, 1910), by A. E. W. Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My friend Prospero. (B. Tauchnitz, 1904), by Henry Harland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Los hombres y los días; entrevistas lterarias. (Madrid, Renacimiento [1927], 1927), by Alfonso Camín (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El Camino : arte y literatura ([s.n.], 1923) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La mariposa que voló sobre el mar : comedia en tres actos (Prensa Moderna, 1927), by Jacinto Benavente (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Book of the Queen's fête : held at Mansion House, London, in aid of the Lord Mayor's crippled children fund : opened on Thursday, June 13th, by Her Majesty the Queen ... : with guide, map, and full programmes. (London : C. Hentschel, 1907., 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arabescos : revista, de arte, prosa y verso (Tipografía Alsina, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Deutsches Heldentum : Rede zur Feier des Geburtstages Seiner Majestät des Kaisers und Königs gehalten in der Aula der Königlichen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin am 27. Januar 1906 (Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von Gustav Schade, 1906), by Gustav Roethe, German Emperor William II, and Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Coriolanus : as arranged for the stage in three parts (Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1901), by William Shakespeare, Henry Irving, and Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Acting version of Measure for measure (J.M. Dent & Co., 1906), by William Shakespeare, Otho Stuart, Oscar Asche, and England) Adelphi Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's comedy of Twelfth night. An acting edition with a producer's preface (W.H. Baker, 1913), by William Shakespeare, Norman Wilkinson, Harley Granville-Barker, and England) Savoy Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)

• The house next door : a comedy in three acts (Boston : Walter H. Baker & Co., [1912?], 1912), by J. Hartley Manners, Leo Walther Stein, and N.Y.) Gaiety Theatre (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fruits of enlightenment : a comedy in four acts (W.H. Baker, 1901), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The comedy of errors : Arr. for school performance (W. H. Baker, 1912), by William Shakespeare, Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen, S.J. Parkhill & Co, and Walter H. Baker & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The undoing of Job : a comedy in three acts (Boston : Walter H. Baker & Co., 1909., 1909), by John Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Endymion : a comedy in three acts (Walter H. Baker & Co., 1909), by Marie Josephine Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The winter's tale. (W.H. Baker and co., 1913), by William Shakespeare, Albert Rutherston, Harley Granville-Barker, Albert Rothenstein, and England) Savoy Theatre (London (page images at HathiTrust)

• The manœuvres of Jane : an original comedy in four acts (S. French, 1905), by Henry Arthur Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The two Mr. Wetherbys, a middle-class comedy in three acts (New York, Samuel French ; London, Samuel French, [1907], 1907), by St. John Hankin and Mass.) Cambridge Social Dramatic Club (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antony and Cleopatra. (s.n., 1910), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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