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great forgotten humorists skip to content great forgotten humorists about great forgotten humorists from steve carper s collection of thousands of humor books a look at some names you ve unfortunately forgotten about along with other weird and seldom seen items about the collection if we look back into past times we find innumerable names of authors once high in reputation read perhaps by the beautiful quoted by the witty and commented by the grave but of whom we now know only that they once existed samuel johnson election special for the first time anywhere the complete history of presidential campaign books by humorists included are books by some of the country s most famous comedians some of the least famous and some who didn t exist at all no matter how wild that sounds the reality was far weirder an epic length article fully stuffed with images you ve probably never seen before our next president the humorists george ade richard armour will cuppy corey ford oliver herford jean kerr charles chic sale the smiths elinor goulding and robert paul charles wayland towne singular goodness authors who wrote one notable book of humor thomas meehan edward sorel sylvia wright more forgotten fun quick books hollow books miscellaneous rarities from my collection droodles by roger price simon schuster 1953 someone actually invented mad libs and that someone was roger price comedian satirist jokewriter and all around wit droodles came first droodles a pun on doodles of course were kid level drawings with a snappy and totally unexpected caption turning the doodle into a delightful visual pun first published in may 1953 in this week magazine a sunday supplement included with tens of millions of newspapers droodles exploded as a national fad faster than davy crockett or hula hoops simon schuster jumped on the prospect and published a book of them later in the year it sold a million copies and later droodles book appeared in english and a bunch of other languages so fantastically popular were droodles that a short lived game show with witty panelists suggesting captions was shown on nbc in 1954 price co founded the publishing house of price stern sloan to publish mad libs and other humor books many of which i have in my collection but not price s own prose humor books oddly feel free to make up your captions for the ones not given on the cover below riding high by david milton proctor brown publishing company 1939 david milton proctor was a prominent attorney in kansas city who got elected to the missouri state senate as a republican the democratic pendergast political machine that controlled kansas city politics and launched harry s truman s career infuriated him and he launched a righteous crusade against them perhaps not so righteous was his far greater fury against franklin roosevelt s new deal in 1936 he penned a satiric book of letters pay day as from a missouri farmer to his son in college berating fdr s farming policy with nothing changed in his opinion he wrote riding high a similar book of letters from a constituent to his senator in washington in 1939 weird enough in own right my copy is even weirder it is imprinted with mr w harry vance on the cover who also signed the book compliments of w h vance in large handwriting vance also a kansas city republican was associated the word used by a contemporary newspaper with brown book company the publisher under various names of proctor s books all i can assume is that vance loved the book so much he had copies printed with his name on the cover to hand out to republican supporters unique in all my experience the history of negro humor in america by william schechter fleet press corporation 1970 willliam schechter was not an academic but in 1970 he wrote the first comprehensive history of black humor that i know of the book covers the subject from plantation humor to the then contemporary work of flip wilson bill cosby and dick gregory contains many rare early pictures that seem outrageous today but are critical to understanding history the lover s baedeker and guide to arcady by carolyn wells frederick a stokes 1912 tolkien didn t invent the fantasyland novel complete with maps and discussions of how the world worked i m not sure who did it first but i know that carolyn wells created one back in 1912 wells was astoundingly prolific she is credited with 170 novels mostly mysteries and young adult she also was almost as obsessed with humor as i am a series of anthologies of humorous poetry appeared in the first years of the 20th century her arcady is a spoof on love and marriage a baedeker travel guide with illustrations by a d blashfield and maps by george w hood the lotus position by lotus weinstock bantam books 1982 there was a time when original books were released in mass market paperback the small size to differentiate them from the more prestigious book sized trade paperbacks in the 1980s the publisher bantam books created a line of bantam humor books most of them were anthologies or joke collections but they filled a historic gap with lotus weinstock s only book she started a career as a stand up comic in the early 1960s when times were rough for women phyllis diller who went through that gantlet herself wrote the introduction it starts it is important to know that lotus s mother dropped her on her head three times what groucho says by groucho harper brothers 1930 groucho says what not the groucho we all know so well but an ad man of the 1920s who wrote humorous critiques of the ad world in the magazine printers ink who groucho was might have been an open secret in 1930 for all we know but he s anonymous today a day at the races by robert pirosh george seaton and george oppenheimer faber and faber 1993 it couldn t be a humor collection without the real groucho he s all over this farsi edition of the script for a day at the races printed in iran curiously the script includes an english transcription of the gabriel who dat man musical number farsi is read right to left so the spine of this trade paperback is on the reader s right always more to come share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook about blog at wordpress com loading comments you must be logged in to post a comment privacy great forgotten humorists sign up log in copy shortlink report this content manage subscriptions