humor

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 25 tipped-in full color plates and black & white images by Hugh Thomson. Hinges intact but tender. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. This classic novel, the 1972 winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Award, turns, providing an essential companion piece to The King of Cards. Illuminated by the author's personal experiences, this authentic coming-of-age novel presents a cavalcade of memorable characters and adventures. Brave, honest, funny and thought-provoking, Shedding Skin is Ward's account of his early travails in Haight Ashbury (and other parts). He draws the reader into chaos, delusion, humor, criminality and the human condition on an intimate level. Short closed tears to dj, rear panel scratched, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Paul O. Zelinsky on half title page. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Little, flat Sonny Shivers and his family only know it's cold and dark where they live, and whenever the earth quakes, a monstrous hand, reaching forth in a great flash of light, snatches away part of their landscape --Buttery Cliffs, towering Mt. Ketchup . . . and with the landscape goes his family, one by one, until only Sonny is left to face the monsters. Who are they? What and where is the Shivers family? Children will delight in puzzling it all out before the Shivers do. Fran Manushkin's dry but juicy humor, spiced with food puns, carries this droll saga through shivery perils to a warm reunion on the refrigerator door. As ever, Caldecott-winner Paul O. Zelinsky's wit makes theater of the most improbable situations.

Hardcover. New York, Michael Di Capua/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Full color illustrations by William Steig. No dust jacket as issued. Bright, clean copy. No price on rear copy as true first calls for so assume reprint.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Collins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Color cartoons by Steig. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. New York, Random House, 3rd pr., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, an early collection of Feiffer's cartoons from The Village Voice. Unpaginated. Light wear, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 1st book by award winning team, b&w illustrations by Richard Egielski. Dust jacket with paper scar where sticker was removed on front. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 1st book by award winning team, b&w illustrations by Richard Egielski. Dj unclipped.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 144 pages First American edition, first printing. Cartoons which appeared in London's Daily Express since 1939. The author/artist presents the full sweep of his wit and a vivid retrospective view of our world during the angst-haunted 40s and 50s in England. Dustjacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The Fleuri ranch on Colorado's Croom Mountain resembles a scene from the 1880s, save for a few modern conveniences such as a tractor, a refrigerator, and a water pump. Life for the Fleuris, who supplement their meager income with moonshine and illegal game, hasn't changed much either. When a government agent persuades them to turn the ranch into a model 1880s homestead for paying visitors, it seems a perfect solution to their plight, until the deed is done. Greenberg deals realistically with the impact of government regulation, social and cultural change, and affluence on a backwoods family, while treating family members with the tenderness, humor, and dignity that each so richly deserves. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grand Central Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. All sorts of madcap home handicraft techniques and materials are showcased in this tongue-in-cheek volume, along with lots of photos of a beaming Amy Sedaris. INSCRIBED BY SEDARIS on the dedication page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with brown cloth spine. Humorous comic strips (without words) featuring a dog. Some pages loose, binding shaken but all there. Covers with light soil, corner wear.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 118 of Arno's b&w cartoons from The New Yorker.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 118 of Arno's b&w cartoons from The New Yorker. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Color illustrations. Edward Ardizzone, one of England's most beloved artists and illustrators, was also an artist who could never resist the temptation of filling his letters to family and friends with enchanting vignettes and sketches. Like all of his work, these were done quickly, humorously, and lovingly, with a sure touch for outline, wash, and color that always distinguished his work. For the first time, here is a selection of those letters, envelopes, and illustrations, selected and edited by Judy Taylor, longtime children's book editor at the Bodley Head and among Ardizzone's closest friends and correspondents.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Color illustrations. Edward Ardizzone, one of England's most beloved artists and illustrators, was also an artist who could never resist the temptation of filling his letters to family and friends with enchanting vignettes and sketches. Like all of his work, these were done quickly, humorously, and lovingly, with a sure touch for outline, wash, and color that always distinguished his work. For the first time, here is a selection of those letters, envelopes, and illustrations, selected and edited by Judy Taylor, longtime children's book editor at the Bodley Head and among Ardizzone's closest friends and correspondents.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with short repaired tear, 155 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Skippy was a comic strip drawn by Percy Crosby-considered by many to be one of the classics of the American newspaper strip. This excellent book contains a biography of Crosby as well as a generous selection from Skippy. Introduction by Jules Feiffer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated paper over boards, blue cloth spine. Introduction by Oliver Herford. No date but assumed 1920s. 128 pages of b&w cartoons reprinted from the humor magazine Life. Covers have light soiling, rubbing. Corners worn. Overall very good, clean inside.

Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages, sixty full-page cartoons in color and a glossary vividly explain the "esoteric, poetic and usually approximate descriptions" found in booksellers' catalogs.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples and Leon, 1st , 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color decorated boards. Black & white cartoons (C)1930 from the Chicago Tribune. Last page states this is book #4 of the Smitty Series. Cardboard covers worn, markings on boards. Previous owner's pencil markings on front fly leaf and rear cover.

Softcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen Sink, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Softcover, color cover art by R. Crumb. 32 b&w pages with art by Justin Green, Joel Beck, others. Stories by Harvey Pekar, Ted Richards.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with red covers. Lightly soiled. Black and white wordless cartoons by Soglow.

Hardcover. Columbia SC, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 278 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. "Drawing upon hundreds of obscure and hard-to-find sources, the author has produced a fresh, sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking chronicle of what it was like to be a participant in the most intense war the world had ever seen up to that time." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. Clean, tight copy.