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Softcover. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 238 pages illustrated in color. Today e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter are sometimes used to spread hateful messages and slurs masking as humor. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries postcards served this purpose. The images collected in this volume make it painfully clear that anti-Semitic propaganda did not simply begin with the Nazis. Nor was it the sole province of politicians, journalists, and rabble-rousers. One of the most virulent forms of anti-Semitism during this time was spread by quite ordinary people through postcards. Of the millions of postcards exchanged during their heyday of 1890 through 1920, a considerable percentage carried the anti-Semitic images that publishers churned out to meet public demand, reflecting deep-seated attitudes of society. Over 250 examples of such postcards, largely from the pre-Holocaust era, are reproduced here for the first time-selected, translated, and historically contextualized by one of the world's foremost postcard collectors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, a collection of strange and unlikely (impossible) events for children's amusement. Some edge scuffs and other normal exterior wear. Color and b&w drawings by Smock.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & CO, reprint, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy soil on cloth covers. Previous owner's name on end paper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Spine shows small tears and soil/wear. Front hinge tender.

Hardcover. Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white illustrations by Heath Robinson.

Hardcover. London, Duckworth, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Heath Robinson's humorous take on the game of golf is as fresh as when it first appeared in 1923, and is accompanied by Bernard Darwin's critical assessment. b&w cartoons throughout by Robinson. Short inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Shuster, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. No dust jacket, a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Shuster, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight chipping to edges of spine.

Softcover. Sarasota FL, Pineapple Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages. Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when the International Game Fish Association (under the author's co-leadership) was emerging. Covers Hemingway's role in the formation of the IGFA, his underappreciated seminal writing about competitive saltwater angling when the sport was still in its infancy, the amazing fishing he enjoyed on the island, and the way all of these experiences translated into the composition of his posthumous novel Islands in the Stream. This is the only book on this period in Hemingway's life and reveals unexpected dimensions to the Hemingway portrait that deserve attention, including his surprising humor, his advanced conservationist views several decades before the environmental movement even began, and his egalitarian ideas about his contemporary female counterparts in the big-game fishing world--challenging the usual portrait of Hemingway as a chauvinist with no personal rules, boundaries, or conscience. Includes beautiful vintage photographs of 1930s Bimini that have never been published in book form.

Hardcover. New York, Paula Wiseman/Simon & Shuster, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KATE FEIFFER AND JULES FEIFFER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Jules Feiffer. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, unpaginated. A collection of original Partch cartoons all about life in the military -during the time of the Korean War. Clean copy, light wear to extremities, corners.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. The second collection of Hazel cartoons by Ted Key from The Saturday Evening Post. Dust jacket with light edgewear, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Kalman. Nighttime is the best time for stories. And Lulu is the best storyteller. She knows about the three cross-eyed dogs at a fancy restaurant, about blue and green mountains where fish fly, about the family party where Maishel Shmelkin forgot to wear his pants, and of course about the noodle woman the pointy red nose. The stories, told by a sister to her little brother, are short and sweet and make you remember things and forget things. Maira Kalman paints a wondrous and humor-filled world in a child's-eye view. It is full of wild invention, people familiar and outlandish, bittersweet moments and flights of fancy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 94 pages of b&w cartoons. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket that has fading to spine. Cartoons by George Wolfe, John Gallagher, Dick Cavalli, Mort Walker, others.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. 3-color illustrations by Barrett throughout. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 279 pages, b&w photos. With a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett (1899-1995) lived an extraordinary life. His experiences as an actor, director, playwright, film and television writer, and novelist in both England and Hollywood left him with many amusing anecdotes, opinions about his craft, and impressions of the many famous people he knew. Among other things, Bennett was a decorated WWI hero, an eminent Shakespearean actor, and an Allied spy and propagandist during WWII, but he is best remembered for his commercially and critically acclaimed collaborations with directors Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille. The fruitful partnership began after Hitchcock adapted Bennett's play Blackmail (1929) as the first British sound film. Their partnership produced six thrillers: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), Secret Agent (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). In this witty and intriguing book, Bennett discusses how their collaboration created such famous motifs as the "wrong man accused" device and the MacGuffin. He also takes readers behind the scenes with the Master of Suspense, offering his thoughts on the director's work, sense of humor, and personal life.

Softcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, an early collection of Feiffer's cartoons from The Village Voice, Playboy and other publications. Unpaginated. Light wear, clean.

Hardcover. Berkeley, Calif., Ten Speed Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Light soiling to dust jacket interior. Otherwise clean, tight copy. As a young photographer working in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, George Rose had his shutter finger on the pulse of the Hollywood scene, documenting film premieres and award ceremonies, arena concerts and Sunset Strip nightclubs. From Oscar-winning actors and filmmakers to punk rockers and porn stars, this stylish book presents visual highlights from the New Hollywood renaissance, a golden era in movies, music, and scene-making. Reflecting the excess, drama, or humor in each subject, Rose's rich black-and-white photos capture famous faces and personalities of the day, whether Jack Nicholson or Debbie Harry, Truman Capote or Little Richard. "Blessed with an uncanny instinct for being in the right place at the right time, Rose was always where the action was, as if you'd transplanted Weegee from the 1940s-era Bowery to the 1980s-era Sunset Strip. As this gallery of photos attests, whether Rose was in a tiny room at the Chateau Marmont or at the edge of the stage at a sold-out show at the Forum, he could always capture a revealing or unguarded moment." --Patrick Goldstein, from the foreword

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with color watercolor pictures by Ted Rand. This slim volume includes 19 poems about nature, including 8 about birds, all of which are illustrated with bold, realistic watercolor paintings. The poems describe animal appearance and behavior in natural, clear images that any nature-watcher can understand. The cardinal, for example, ``Tries not to look conspicuous/ In red, but doesn't quite know how,'' and the spaniels have ``Periscope tails and hairy feet.'' Several poems such as ``The Beaver, Alas'' are wry commentaries on human attitudes toward nature. The few poems which try for an arch tone (``Slothful the sloth is certainly noth'') are less successful. Rand's detailed close-up paintings of individual birds and animals and his more humorous montages of animals for poems such as ``At the Zoo'' balance beautifully with the text.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , reprint, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature front end paper, 2.95 on dj flap. Dj w/short tears, wear, chunk gone on spine.

Hardcover. New York, Bell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated boards, unpaginated (96 pages), b&w cartoons throughout by Bob Dunn. Rear board with light chipping, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Nola Langer. Humorous tale told in rhyme by the noted poet. Library binding, NOT ex-library. Ownership stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in black, b&w cartoons by Gurney. SIGNED WITH A DRAWING OF A SMILING CAT BY GURNEY. An amusing look at pampered pets of all types with 150 very amusing drawings by the author.

Softcover. NY, Regan Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages illustrated in b&w. Claudia Corvette. From her tousled bedroom hair to her name-all the porn stars in this world take their names from supermodels and sports cars-she is adult entertainment's prototypical femme fatale. Her life is the collision of countless troubled-childhood cliches and grown-up wet dreams, projected onto her as surely as her videos project their blue light onto lonely men around the world. From its first panel, How to Make Money Like a Porn Star draws the reader into the dark world of girls like Claudia, the men who fantasize about them, and the monsters who control them. In the hands of Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss and illustrator Bernard Chang, this adult graphic novel weaves together black humor and blacker reality. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, McCall Publishing, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards illustrated in color. Unpaginated, b&w cartoon illustrations by the Berenstains. Clean copy.