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 about Risque' Humor) Laugh Digest, Fresh Cartoon, Racy Comedy, Pin-Ups
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 about Everybody's PIxillated, A Book Of Doodles
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 about Inside Benchley
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 about Are You a Bromide ? or The Sulphitic Theory, Expounded And Exemplified According To The Most...
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 about Speaking Of Operations
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 about The Notebooks of Major Thompson, An Englishman Discovers France & The French; Translated by...
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 about Marley & Me: life and love with the world's worst dog
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 about Merry Men of Gotham
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 whimsical text. More about Stranger Than Man
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 about You Know Me Al, A Busher's Letters
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 about Laugh Parade
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 about It Takes a Village Idiot, Complicating The Simple Life
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 about The Vulgarians
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 about Rejected Articles
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 Collection. More about The Most Of S. J. Perelman
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 about Opera Soufflé 60 Pictures In Bravura
(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 about All Embarrassed; Foreword by Arthur Steig
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 about Mr. and Mrs. Haddock in Paris France
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 about Right Ho Jeeves