humor poetry

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1sr, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in faded blue boards with a black cloth spine, title label on front cover. 138 pages, humorous poetry with fabulous b/w illustrations by Stuart Hay. The author was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. Despite cover fading, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Exposition Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn jacket with fading to spine. B&w drawings by the author. Clean copy.

Softcover. Brunswick ME, Shanti Arts , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 121 pages. Poet J. R. Solonche adds The Book of a Small Fisherman to his impressive list of over thirty published poetry collections. His poems, says Chase Twichell, "are an extraordinary amalgam of wit, close observation, humor, and clear-seeing. Each one singles out and illuminates an ordinary moment-ordinary, that is, until the poet explodes into a miniature epiphany. Easy of access and frequently profound, J. R. Solonche's poems induce in me a state of delighted surprise."

Softcover. Louisville KY, Sarabande Books, 4th pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages, b&w photos. Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few perceive with such charged intelligence. The Cows is a close study of the three much-loved cows that live across the road from her. The piece, written with understated humor and empathy, is a series of detailed observations of the cows on different days and in different positions, moods, and times of the day. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 76 pages, seven color plates & numerous b/w illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. No date, probably 1950s. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.

Hardcover. NY, Margaret K. McElderry, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by John O'Brien. A collection of limericks about Uncle Switch, an eccentric who does everything topsy-turvy. Clean copy.

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Uphill with Archie is a beautifully written and deeply involving look at the life and the world of the great literary icon, poet Archibald MacLeish, by his youngest son. Partly an homage, partly an attempt to come to terms with the man (and the legend), Uphill with Archie speaks to all sons and daughters who have never completely resolved their feelings about powerful parents. Young William MacLeish grew up both captivated and cowed by the fame of a father who won Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry and comparable honors for his work as a lawyer, playwright, teacher, and government official. William's mother, Ada, began her marriage as a successful concert singer in Paris but later felt compelled to give up her art for her family. When Archie was working for Henry Luce and Fortune magazine, his younger children, watched over by a governess, stayed with their grandfather in Connecticut. But it is of the time spent with his family at Uphill Farm, a beautiful old house above a Massachusetts hilltown, that MacLeish has his fondest and most telling memories: "Archie and Ada gave me great gifts: music, the sound of the language beautifully spoken, the draw of knowledge, the arts of humor," William writes. "I learned to perform for them, and in time found myself addicted to getting a nice tan from Archie's sun. And the more I bathed in his light, the harder I found it to go looking for my own."

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Lobel. Clean. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED WITH 2 DRAWINGS BY ILLUSTRATOR STEVEN KELLOGG ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Full color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Rear endpaper has 6" X 2.5" piece removed from bottom edge with scissors. Dust jacket with closed tear along spine, stain to title area, light wear to corners - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Boston, L. Prang & Co, 1st, 1894, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 4 volumes, stiff light-green covers with color illustration, b&w frontispiece in each. Leedle Yawcob Strauss: 14 pages, 5 color plates. Yawcob's Dribulations: 17 pages, 7 color plates. Der Oak une der Vine: 15 pages, 5 color plates. Vas Marriage a Failure?: 14 pages, 5 color plates. Slight rubbing to covers; volumes in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY LYNN MUNSINGER ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations. Dust jacket with darkening along spine, edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Colorful illustrations by Lynn Munsinger throughout accompanying short humorous poems by various poets. Clean inside and out, in great shape!