New York: Humorama, October, 1962. Wraps. Duodecimo, (7.25” x 5.25”); pp; 100; illustrated with black and white pin-up photographs and cartoons; original printed pictorial paper wrappers, rear wrapper has a color photo of a pin-up girl;. Early 60’s risqué humor. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 108; profusely illustrated with black and white plates; black cloth and pictorial paper covered boards, lettered in red in a pictorial dust jacket;. A collection of "the absent-minded scribblings of nearly a hundred famous people, " each..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1942). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; vi, (ii), 316; illustrated by Gluyas Williams; pebbled burgundy cloth with a paste-on illustration of a man with umbrella lower right, white spine tile lettered in black, illustrated endpapers;. A wonderful collection of short pieces, trout fishing, Christmas..... More
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1906. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; 63; Pages are illuminated with red borders by the author; green cloth and gray paper covered boards with a decorated paper title label lettered in green; Very good, light edge wear;. On the front paste-down is a very interesting..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, (1915). Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 64; illustrated with a frontispiece and three additional inserted plates and pictorial endpapers by Tony Sarg; pictorial cloth lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket;. A very nice copy in jacket. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1955). First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. pp; (vi), 213, (i), colophon; Illustrated with black and white illustrations throughout by Walter Goetz; Original printed blue boards, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and boards in white, blue and red, yellow top-stain, in the pictorial dust jacket..... More
New York: William Morrow, 2006. First illustrated edition. Hardcover. (New YUork: 2006). Octavo (6" x 9"), red cloth, gilt with pictorial insert. 305, (1)pp. The illustrated edition,with photographs in color. Ribbon marker. Lovely copy but for a soiled spot at the bottom of the cover, visible in the picture. "Dogs..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 150; illustrated by Shane Miller; decorated tan cloth in a pictorial dust jacket;. First American publication of these "Gotham town" stories. More
New York: Phillips-Ridgeway Inc., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo; pp; 182, index; illustrated with fifty color plates by George De Zayas; decorated beige linen lettered in burgundy in a pictorial dust jacket;. This copy is inscribed on the front free fly leaf by the author; Wonderful stylized illustrations and..... More
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1945). Second Tower Books Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 192; brown cloth lettered in yellow in a pictorial dust jacket;. A classic! Read along as ballplayer Jack Keefe pours out his heart from the diamond to his friend back home. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; viii, (ii), 326; embossed red cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Anthology of collected humorous pieces. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 219, (i); green cloth and lavender paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Great fun! We live in a Vermont town just like the one described in this humorous book. More
New York: New York Graphic Society, nd. Hardcover. (1960). Oblong quarto (10.5' x 8.25"), pictorial boards. Unpaginated (96pp.). Cartoons in color. Commentary on our vulgar society of 1960. More
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; iv, (ii), 353; three quarter brown morocco and marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, spine lettered in gilt;. "Late in his life, Peter George Patmore, the periodical essayist, Regency man of letters and father of Coventry Patmore, recalled walking arm in..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiv,, 650, (i); white cloth and decorated red paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a dust jacket; jacket toned at fore edge with a small wrinkle at spine top else very good; A nice copy. The Definitive..... More
New York: Henry Schuman, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (90); profusely illustrated with black and white cartoons; embossed red velvet covered boards lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers;. A series of cartoons describing a night at a performance of Grand Opera. This was Louise Florian's..... More
(New York): Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, (1944). Stated First Edition, yet jacket flap states, "Second Large Printing" Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), 101; profusely illustrated with black and white cartoons; black cloth lettered in gilt and black in a pictorial dust jacket;. William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003)..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), 284, (i), (ii), ads; illustrated, four black and white plates by Herb Roth; blue cloth with a paste on title tile lettered in black at center upper board and another on the spine, pictorial end papers, top edge..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, (1934). First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 312; scarlet ribbed cloth with black lettering on upper board and the spine;. Attention All Drones! McIlvaine A-52, issued in the UK and Canada as “Right H, Jeeves” but in the U.S. as “Brinkley Manor”. A scarce Wodehouse title..... More