The cover is light brown silk? with a decorative border, and Gilt "Sunrise" with title and S.S. Cox around it. Gilt lettering on spine. The edges are beveled with slight fraying on corners, Top and bottom of spine edgeworn. Back of cover has a couple of light stains. Front end paper missing. 387 pages which do not lie completely flat, probably do to exposure to humidity in the past. Occasional foxing. Binding and pages very tight. Humor in General, American humor,Southern humor, Legisative humor, and classic humor summed up in the final chapter : A Homeric Study, "If the nations could understand fully what Homer meant..there would be a vast disarmament in Europe and Asia, and many milliards would be saved annually for the welfare of the workers among men."

Political Humor, American Humor