Humor

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth spine and green paper-covered boards.A nice collection of b&w cartoons from The New Yorker. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., Reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on inside front cover. Full color illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Dust jacket with dime size piece of paper missing at top of spine, light chipping along edges. Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a slipcase. Extensive b&w and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Includes decorative slip case. Light rubbing to bottom corner, otherwise clean, tight copy. What began as Bull Tales in the Yale Daily News in 1968 became Doonesbury when it debuted as a Universal Press Syndicate feature in 1970. The strip followed the lives of college roommates B.D. and Mike Doonesbury from their first encounter through the intricate life turns they experience, along with the cadre of eccentric and engaging characters they encounter over the next forty years. Always political, relentlessly pointed, expertly drawn and written, Doonesbury is a classic in its own time, and this book commemorates that special place in cartoon history it holds.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of humorous verses about animals, friendly or otherwise. Additional poems by Lucy Gardner & Eugene Rudzewicz. Drawings by Lucy, Joel, Joan & John Gardner. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Each page features a child introducing a dino, 25 in all, and describing its behavioral and physical characteristics. The child tells about him-/herself, too, with an argument for renaming the dinosaur after him/her. For example: "My favorite dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus Rex, the biggest, meanest, fiercest, most powerful meat eater ever found . . . when I have a bad day or lose my temper, my dad calls me RYAN-osaurus Rex!" Solid scientific information shares space with fictional youngsters in an ingenious way.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page.

New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. Fans of Poems of A. Nonny Mouse will rejoice in this effervescent sequel containing more than 50 wittily illustrated short verses. In an introductory letter, Ms. Mouse acknowledges that since the successful publication of her first volume, she's "been able to afford the occasional wedge of imported cheese" and "put away something for her old age." Along with traditional offerings, tongue twisters, limericks and four unlabeled poems by Prelutsky--identified as the editor of Ms. Mouse's scribblings--the book includes the familiar poem about infamous "Ooey Gooey," the worm who ends up squashed on a railroad track, and a subversive rendition of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" that concludes with "Throw your teacher overboard / And listen to her scream." Priceman's watercolors, like those she executed in Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud , are frolicsome and frisky, mischievously expressive.

Softcover. New York, Workman Publishing, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, A collection of b&w cartoons that previously appeared in various publications. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, Inc, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Bright illustrations by Guy Peellaert throughout.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated boards, unpaginated. Illustrated with full color drawings of Mickey Mouse and friends. Light wear to cover corners and 1 1/2" closed tear at bottom front hinge. Page 14 has a 1" closed tear on right margin - this does not effect text or illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 5th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages plus publishers ads in rear. Orange cloth with maroon design, lettering. Stated Fifth Printing on copyright page, no date but circa 1930. Mild fading to spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday , Reprint, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covers with intact full color pastedown to front, and cover and spine titles in black. A new translation by V. S. Vernon-Jones with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton, and 13 full color tissue guarded plates and many black & white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Clean, unmarked pages.

Softcover. London, Methuen, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 49 pages. Color comics from the French satirist. First translation from French by Fiona Cleland.

Hardcover. Dark Horse, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages. As part of the Dark Horse Archives series, all Shmoo newspaper strip appearances and storylines are being collected for the first time ever in a deluxe, oversized hardcover .In addition to every weekly and Sunday Shmoo newspaper appearance from 1948 to 1976, this collection also features rare Al Capp photographs and Shmoo illustrations from its marketing heyday.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Cartoonist's Co-op Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Very good. 32 pages with semi-glossy color covers, b/w interiors. Cover price is $.75. An adult comic, also a seminal work in the field of both Underground, and Autobiographical comic storytelling and collaboration, by two of the most influential figures in Underground comics.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Comic Book. Standard Format and Size. First Printing. This is the #2 issue of the series, published December 1977 with a washtub on the cover. Cover price $1.00. Art by R. Crumb and his longtime girlfriend, Aline Kominsky.

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 101 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by William Steig. Dust jacket shows wear with small chunks missing at top and bottom of spine and chipping along edges. Dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 93 pages. This is a selection of b&w Hazel cartoons from The Saturday Evening Post. Key's most famous creation, the single-panel Hazel, about a wry and bossy household maid, came to Key in 1943 in a dream that he drew the next morning and sent to The Saturday Evening Post, where it was accepted and began running regularly. Name and previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Racine, WA, Western Publishing/Little Golden Book, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. The cartoonist's first book is rich with his portrayal of people's foibles, goofs, and misinterpretations, as seen originally in the New Yorker, Playboy, and Punch. Introduction bu Whitney Balliett. Dust jacket with small tape repair, price-clipped.

Hardcover. NY, New York Review Comics, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 280 pages. Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for Middle Passage in 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of the poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in America, Johnson crafted some of the fiercest and funniest cartoons of the twentieth century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hudson NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 143 pages. No dust jacket issued. The perfect gift for an anniversary--or your divorce lawyer--All's Fair in Love and War will woo over hopeless romantics and cynical heartbreakers alike. Find wit and wisdom on love in all its varieties, from a first date to a third divorce. This curated collection features work by over forty of the best and brightest New Yorker cartoonists, including Roz Chast, Sam Gross, Liana Finck, Bob Mankoff, and Edward Steed. Many of the cartoons appear in print for the first time. Clean copy.

New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by William Steig, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Light pencil underlining in introduction - otherwise, clean, unmarked. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.