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Anti-Semitic Pulp Book. "The Jim Mace Reciter

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Anti-Semitic Pulp Book.  The Jim Mace Reciter
Anti-Semitic Pulp Book. "The Jim Mace Reciter, or the Gem of Oratory," American News Co., Nassau St., New York, 1870, 4 x 6, 68 pp., colorful cover. "...A selection of recitations...that cannot be surpassed." On pp. 58-60, a lengthy anti-Semitic poem, "The Barrel of Pork": "Two Israelite brothers in New York once dwelt, And in all kinds of merchandise freely they dealt, They were thought to be wealthy - between I and you, Each brother was really as rich as a Jew...." Also, long prose "Impulsive Nigger Oration." Advertised on last page, "The Harry Hill Songster...one of the gayest kind of books...A good selection of the most Popular Songs of the day, as sung at the Free and Easy and Concert Saloons...together with a portrait of Harry Hill, the noted Concert Saloon Manager." (Harry Hill was perhaps the foremost figure on the most notorious thoroughfare in North America - Greene Street in Manhattan - where nearly every building housed a brothel or a saloon.) Blank lower right tip of cover lacking, minor wear and stains, else very good.