Humor

Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edge wear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy

Softcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Black and white line cartoons throughout by author. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, wartime cartoon book showing the life of the enlistee (as a dog). One of the early Freeman efforts. Dust jacket edge worn, soiled, price-clipped.

Softcover. Kansas City, Hallmark, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, spiral bound, a week-by-week calendar with each spread illustrated with a two-color cartoon by the Berenstains. Art reprinted from 16 years of their cartoon series which ran in McCalls Magazine. Light wear, clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, David McKay Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 127 pages, illustrated with O. Sogow's great cartoons. In an edgeworn dust jacket that's price-clipped. A book full of ridiculous laws and accompanying comic-style illustrations. It's illegal in New York to shoot at rabbits from the rear end of a moving 3rd Ave streetcar. In Baltimore it's illegal to sell a parrot, or even to give one away. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by James Marshall. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st , 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white drawings by Thurber. 124 pages. Previous owner's bookplate. Bright dust jacket with only minor chipping.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Einar Norelius. Text by Nils Bohman. Areas of staining/darkening to illustrated covers. Interior pages clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. New York , DK Publishing/Dorling Kindersley, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Burningham. Clean hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BURNINGHAM on a bookplate pasted to the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 287 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, 2 signed notecards and relevant clippings taped in, with illustrations throughout. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight, 1 of a limited 1000 copies.

Hardcover. Seatle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no issued dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to cover boards. Color pictures throughout. This is a deluxe, full-color, coffee table book biography; the first of one of America's greatest storytellers. It's filled with beautifully reproduced artwork from the comic books Little Lulu, and his creations Melvin Monster and Thirteen(Going on Eighteen); rare drawings and cartoons; and never-before-seen photographs. Bill Schelly tells Stanley's life story through interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues: his childhood in Harlem and the Bronx, life with his strict Irish Catholic mother, his education at Parsons, his first job as an animator at Max Fleischer Studios, and his years working as a commercial artist, before finding his true metier in comic books during World War II (while battling clinical depression and alcoholism).

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages with 24 publishers pages in rear. B&w frontispiece and 3 b&w illustrations by Harold Copping. Cover lightly soiled with minor rubbing and edgewear. Inscription by previous owner on front flyleaf. A clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Judge Publishing Co., 1928, Book: Good, Softcover, 32 pages. Color cover art by Jefferson Machamer, "The Dummy". Color ads for Fatima and Marlboro cigarettes. B/w cartoons by Gardner Rea, Suess, others. Small tan spot to bottom edge.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Tan cloth covers with maroon titles and illustrations on cover and spine. Dust jacket with darkening, three spots of staining on spine, light edge wear. Line of holes created by hole punch along right side of front inside dust jacket flap - from top to bottom. Dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Full color and black & white illustrations by J. M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Softcover, 168 pages. Edward Sorel is widely recognized as America's premier illustrator. But when he wasn't painting covers and doing drawings for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Time, Rolling Stone, and many other mass circulation magazines, he was indulging, over the last 30 years, in his first love--making comic strips. Sorel's strips are iconoclastic, cynical, and universally excoriating. No target escapes his watchful wrath: politicians, theological dynasties, ideologues left and right, lawyers, publishers, and the usual gang of movers and shakers--panderers, philistines, money-grubbers. (Nor does he spare himself.) Culled from the pages of The Nation, The Village Voice, Penthouse, and other magazines, Sorel proves he is that most dangerous of creatures--a cartoonist with a chip on his shoulder, an inveterate troublemaker, a burner of bridges.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, Reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY HILARY KNIGHT ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, Reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. This book is a centennial birthday bash hosted by Dean Mullaney, Bruce Canwell, and Brian Walker, with contributions by Brendan Burford, Lucy Shelton Caswell, Jared Gardner, Ron Goulart, Jeffrey Lindenblatt, Carl Linich, Paul Tumey, and Germund von Wowern. More than just comics, it's a celebration of the profound impact that King Features has had on popular culture!

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 140 b&w cartoons by Barsotti, most from The New Yorker, some published here for the first time. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Ungar, 1st Eng. transl., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 76 pages. Transl. from German by Max Born. Black & white cartoon drawings by Busch. Decorative stain to top edge. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, closed tear.

Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, approx. 64 pages. Color illustrated wrappers, stapled. B&w cartoons by Dunn illustrating a collection of some of the world's worst jokes - the 'knock-knocks'. Nice condition, paper has tanned and is brittle. Whitman #801.

Hardcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Light musty odor.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 90 pages. A collection of Kovarsky's better New Yorker cartoons, with an additional 40 new cartoons. In a bright dust jacket that's been price-clipped. Clean.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers. Color comics throughout. This volume finds Herriman flowering into the peak of his inventiveness, liberated at last from the constraints of his syndicate's chosen format. Gorgeous cartoons are augmented by rare bonus materials. This volume is one in a long-term plan to chronologically reprint the entirety of the 28-year run of Krazy Kat's breathtaking Sunday page, most of which has not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is painstakingly edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost authority on early 20th Century American comic strips, and designed by Jimmy Corrigan author Chris Ware. In addition to the 104 full-page black-and-white Sunday strips from 1929 and 1930 (Herriman did not use color until 1935), the book includes an introduction by Blackbeard and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera from Ware's own extensive collection, as well as annotations and other notes by Ware and Blackbeard.