Carleton B. (Carleton Britton) Case

An American book publisher and editor, Carleton B. Case is remembered for compiling humorous material that was meant to entertain a wide audience. Library and public-domain records connect him with books of jokes, comic readings, toasts, party pieces, and stories designed for social occasions as well as home and school use.

His work often gathered anecdotes and light verse into practical collections, including volumes such as Comic Declamations and Readings, The Big Toast-Book, and wartime compilations like Funny Stories Told by the Soldiers and Stories from the Trenches. The overall picture is of a writer-editor with a knack for packaging humor in a form people could easily borrow, read aloud, and pass along.

Reliable sources found for this overview confirm his authorship and editorial work, but they offer only limited biographical detail beyond his dates and career. No clearly suitable portrait image of him could be confirmed from the available sources, so none is included here.