Humbug Pamphlet
$225.00
The Art of the Swindle!
In stock
Description
Humbug this pamphlet provides “A Look at Some Popular Impositions.”
This is an Antebellum pamphlet about the art of swindling. Among other swindles: Getting rich by lotteries, petty swindling advertisements, the subscription dodge, how to fail and make money, the love-powder business, & modern astrology.
Wonderfully designed wrappers!
HUMBUG: A LOOK AT SOME POPULAR IMPOSITIONS. New York: 1859. 1st edition, 94p., illustrated wrappers. Light soil; light dampstain; repaired with tape 1″; light chipping at spine with some loss.
Related products
-
George Henry Preble, Pamphlet Signed
$295.00 -
Textile, Souvenir of the Great White Fleet
$3,500.00 -
Grant, U. S. & Badeau, Adam, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant & Grant in Peace both 1st eds
$4,500.00 -
Patrick & Dylan Brennan, Gettysburg In Color: Volume 1, Signed by Both Authors
$37.50
