Humor

Softcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Many cans of tuna have been opened and emptied since the collection's first mostly black-and-white edition, in 1981; the revised edition adds more color art as well as coverage of classics including The Cat in the Hat, Bill the Cat, and pets penned by B. Kliban and Edward Gorey. The volume covers cartoon depictions of the cat dating back to 1100 B.C., though the bulk of the images date to the 20th century. Brief essays about printing, literature, contemporary society, and other historical facts are interspersed with the goods selections from the comics themselves. Editor Whyte is a publisher who founded the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.

Softcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Many cans of tuna have been opened and emptied since the collection's first mostly black-and-white edition, in 1981; the revised edition adds more color art as well as coverage of classics including The Cat in the Hat, Bill the Cat, and pets penned by B. Kliban and Edward Gorey. The volume covers cartoon depictions of the cat dating back to 1100 B.C., though the bulk of the images date to the 20th century. Brief essays about printing, literature, contemporary society, and other historical facts are interspersed with the goods selections from the comics themselves. Editor Whyte is a publisher who founded the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, 143 pages. Black & white pictures by Albert Levering. Tear to top of plate opposite page 24. Spine lettering faded. Some browning to pages. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, A collection of b&w cartoons by Lou Myers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author. In almost new condition. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper clean and very good. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Edges have a touch of tanning from age.

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated orange boards, unpaginated. A collection of Partch cartoons previously published in Colliers and Look. Clean copy, light wear to extremities, color fade to spine, edges.

Hardcover. US, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Opper was already a quite successful cartoonist/illustrator for the prestigious Puck magazine when William Randolph Hearst lured him out to create a comic strip for the New York Journal. While a step down from (relatively) high to low brow, Opper jumped at the chance and out came ?Happy Hooligan" an un-heroized vagrant who ends up very badly at the end of each strip, no matter how much good he might mean. His perennial demise surely went on to inspire Wile E. Coyote or Mr. O, especially as his own cowardice and unworthiness contributes to his hilarious woes. This second entry in ?Forever Nuts' presents a collection of the better early full color Sundays. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, hardcover illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, tight 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: 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.

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, 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, 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.

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. 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.