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Humorous Genre
Books in the Humorous genre:
To and Again (1927)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Adolfo Best-Maugard
The Wonderful Week (1927)
Bank clerk Harold Altridge enters on a week of cataclysm after cataclysm -- a phantasmagoria of adventure, romance and mystery -- that leaves him half dead and the reader holding his sides with laughter.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Bastable Children (1928)
An omnibus volume containing The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, and The New Treasure Seekers.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Browne
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Davy and the Goblin or What Followed Reading “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1928)
The Goblin takes Davy on a believing voyage.
Author(s):
Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s):
H. I. Bacharach
E. B. Bensell
Knickerbocker’s History of New York (1928)
A comic history of New York under the Dutch.
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Lucia in London: a Novel (1928)
Lucia decides to try her wings in a larger society.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. F. Benson
Illustrator(s):
None
Meet Mr. Mulliner (1928)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Millions of Cats (1928)
Money for Nothing (1928)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Money for Nothing (1928)
John Carroll is in love with Pat Wyvern, but his uncle and her father are at loggerheads. Another nephew, Hugh Carmody needs money and enlists a gang of crooks to steal the heirlooms, but all comes right in the end.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Wallace Morgan
Mr. Punch’s County Songs (1928)
A collection of verses of a humorous nature on the counties of England. The pieces originally appeared in Punch.
Author(s):
E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Alexander Botts, Earthworm Tractors (1929)
When Alexander Botts offers his services to the Earthworm Tractor Company, they do not realize what they are in for - fortunately for them and for us.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Tony Sarg
Fish Preferred (1929)
Galahad Threepwood is ensconced at Blandings Castle working on his memoirs while around him Ronnie Fish is stealing the Empress and various affairs of the heart are going awry.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
A Gentleman of Leisure (1929)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Livestock in Barracks (1929)
A collection of humorous sketches about army life in World War I, originally published in Punch.
Author(s):
Anthony Armstrong
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Mr. Mulliner Speaking (1929)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Noisy Nora: An Almost True Story (1929)
Noisy Nora is a noisy eater.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
Penrod Jashber (1929)
Further adventures of Penrod and Sam.
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Grant
Rootabaga Country: Selections from Rootabaga Stories & Rootabaga Pigeons (1929)
A selection of stories from the first two volumes of Rootabaga Stories.
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Peggy Bacon
The Story of Mr. Punch (1929)
A history of the Punch and Judy show.
Author(s):
Octave Feuillet
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader