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Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Seymour Chwast. "What do you do when the moon comes to your window and offers to take you on a night ride? You say yes, of course! And so begins a night of surprising travel around a city that never sleeps. Seymour Chwast has spent many evenings exploring New York City after dark. Harriet Ziefert adds to the fun with a text that is both humorous and offers sound advice to any child going on a trip." Clean copy.

NY, St. Martins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations. 442 pages. The story of the popular Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The legendary Jay Ward and Bill Scott produced the gleeful wonder and cumulative joy that transcended the crude drawings and occasionally muddy sound. Jay Ward was the magnificent visionary, the outrageous showman, while Bill Scott was the genial, brilliant head writer, coproducer, and all-purpose creative whirlwind. With exclusive interviews, original scripts, artwork, story notes, letters and memos, Keith Scott has written the definitive history of Jay Ward Productions.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 897 pages. John Updike's fiftieth book and fifth collection of assorted prose, most of it first published in The New Yorker, brings together eight years' worth of essays, criticism, addresses, introductions, humorous feuilletons, and - in a concluding section, 'Personal Matters' - paragraphs on himself and his work. Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Dawn Powell, Henry Green, John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and W. M. Spackman are among the authors extensively treated, along with such more general literary matters as the nature of evil, the philosophical content of novels, and the wreck of the Titanic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008-, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st UK, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with blue titles to spine and drawing on front. 312 pages, 10 b&w plates by Nicolas Bentley. A marvelous collection by one of America's most colorful and gifted writers. Contents: Breach of promise -- Romance in the roaring forties -- Dream street rose -- The old doll's house -- Blood pressure -- The bloodhounds of Broadway -- Tobias the terrible -- The snatching of bookie bob -- The lily of st. pierre -- Hold 'em yale! -- Earthquake -- "Gentlemen, the king!" -- A nice price -- Broadway financier -- The brain goes home. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean. Mild shelfwear.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. "An I Can Read Book". Color illustrations by Bernard Wiseman. Lists 17 titles on back cover - starting with "Little Bear" and ends with "David and the Giant". Some minor foxing to preliminary pages. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 276 pages. A coffee table retrospective commemorating Mort Walker's long and dedicated commitment to cartooning, spotlighting the anniversary of his most popular and beloved creation. In addition to the 75 Sunday pages reproduced from color syndicate proofs, 135 daily and Sunday strips scanned from original artwork, and close to 200 additional images, this beautifully designed volume, impeccably researched and written by his son Brian, also includes rare photographs, historic debut character appearances, syndicate promotional materials, posters, merchandise, personal drawings and memorabilia from the family archives, as well as biographical sketches and anecdotes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 102 pages. Dust jacket price-clipped. "The New Yorker" takes a second look at our most loved childhood stories and rhymes. Edited by Bobby Goldstein. Nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Clean, tight copy.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940, Book: Very Good,

NBC Television, 1978, Book: Very Good, One glossy b&w photograph showing Belushi in character as Franklin Roosevelt (left) and the Samauri Swordsman.

Softcover. New York, Dell, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Mass market paperback, Dell #5868, unpaginated. B&w cartoon drawings throughout by the Berenstains. Clean.

Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages, hardcvoer with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Frank Modell. Some light edgewear, spine faded. Clean, tigth copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in color by Hoban. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Mr. Tiger lives in a perfectly fine world of prim and proper ladies and gentlemen. One day, the stiff suits, dainty teas, and Victorian manners begin to bore him... and he has a very wild idea. This "it's okay to be different" story stands out from other picture books on the topic thanks to Brown's delightfully clever illustrations and masterful compositions. From the tiger-striped cover that begs to be petted to the ingenious pops of bright orange (Brown's new signature color?) amid muted browns and grays, the award-winning illustrator does not disappoint. Children will appreciate Mr. Tiger's transformation and the way his friends eventually accept his (and their own) uniqueness. Several wordless spreads encourage audience participation while subtle visual clues gently build his character. A full spread featuring the newly liberated Mr. Tiger au naturel is delivered with pitch-perfect comedic timing and is guaranteed to inspire wild giggles.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 421 pages. A selection of vintage Hellman profiles, interspersed with certain shorter masterpieces of humor that have a quality all their own. Brilliant series of studies of extraordinary people: publisher Alfred A. Knopf, the Countess Mara of cravat-creating fame; the architect Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, designer Norman Bel Geddes, and many more. Dust jacket rubbed, spine faded. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, b&w cartoons by the New Yorker artist. Lacks dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2020, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 242 pages. A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America. In the 1990s, Megan Margulies's Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the "Wild Man of 96th Street," who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents' tiny one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite, with a family of five-including some loud personalities-eventually occupying the 550-square-foot space. Salvation arrived in the form of her spirited grandfather, Daddy Joe, whose midtown studio became a second home to Megan. There, he listened to her woes, fed her Hungry Man frozen dinners, and simply let her be. His living room may have been dominated by the drawing table, notes, and doodles that marked him as Joe Simon the cartoonist. But for Megan, he was always Daddy Joe: an escape from her increasingly hectic home, a nonjudgmental voice whose sense of humor was as dry as his farfel, and a steady presence in a world that felt off balance. Evoking New York City both in the 1980s and '90s and during the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s and '40s, My Captain America flashes back from Megan's story to chart the life and career of Rochester-native Joe Simon, from his early days retouching publicity photos and doing spot art for magazines, to his partnership with Jack Kirby at Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics), which resulted in the creation of beloved characters like Captain America, the Boy Commandos, and Fighting American. My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Megan's life with Daddy Joe-and an intimate portrait of the creative genius who gave us one of the most enduring superheroes of all time.

Hardcover. London, Tom Stacey, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, b&w cartoons by Addams. Previous owner's inscription on half title page otherwise clean in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, satirical comic strips on the famous, recounting of a typical day by the former Australian, now New Yorker cartoonist. No dj issued.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages, b&w cartoons by Price, most from The New Yorker. Dust jacket bright but with a small chunk gone from bottom of front panel and some light chipping.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($2.75) dust jacket. Ex-lib with light stamping to endpapers. Illustrated in 3-colors by Flora. No First Edition statement on copyright page, no other printings stated.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day... he finds his teacher there! Over the course of one day, Bobby learns that monsters are not always what they seem. Each page is filled with "monstrous" details that will have kids reading the story again and again. Peter Brown takes a universal and timeless theme, and adds his own humorous spin to create another winner of a picture book.