Humor

Hardcover. New York, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Meet the Dullards is a clever and irreverent picture book about a comically boring family, from bestselling author Sara Pennypacker and illustrator Daniel Salmieri. Their home is boring. Their food is plain. Their lives are monotonous. And Mr. and Mrs. Dullard like it that way.But their children--Blanda, Borely, and Little Dud--have other ideas. . . .Never has dullness been so hilarious than in this deadpan, subversive tale.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Balzer + Bray, HarperCollins, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Meredith, NH, Intervale Publishing, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages. Softcover with light wear to edges. Illustrations throughout by author. Tight.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 265 pages, two-color comics throughout. Comics artist Archie Bongiovanni explores queerness in this shockingly frank and funny adult graphic novel. Best friends Chris, Jo, Elise, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall completely apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party (like they are at every other queer event in Minneapolis), the crew decides to put on a new party called Grind!, a queer gathering specifically for folks in or over their dirty-thirties. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 11th pr., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Alexander King, one of the first editors of Life magazine, a collaborator on plays with Clare Booth Luce, and a book illustrator, tells, among other things, of undergoing four "cures" for drug addiction in a ten-year period. Dedicated nonconformist King describes his life and those around him with irony and humor. Paper tanning, clean copy.

Softcover. Secaucus NJ, Citadel Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, many b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. 'An I CAN READ BOOK'. Features full color illustrations by Mamoru Funai. Stated first edition. Price clipped dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. BOOKPLATE ON FRONT ENDPAPER SIGNED BY AUTHOR JACK PRELUTSKY AND ILLUSTRATOR PETER SIS. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. Once again the collaborators of The Dragons Are Singing Tonight have combined their extraordinary talents to concoct an irresistible collection of trolls, wizards, witches, giants, ogres (and a solitary yeti). "Jack Prelutsky is up to his usual hilarious no good in this new collection of witchy, wizardly, ogreish poems....Among the subjects of these briskly amusing poems is a wizard who rashly makes himself disappear, a seven-century-old apprentice witch....and a family-type ogre....Prelutsky's skill with catchy rhymes and delightfully fiendish subject matter is complemented by Peter Sis's humorously foreboding and cheerfully nonchalant illustrations."

Hardcover. London, Dennis Dobson, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 76 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in color by Ronald Searle. Very good condition. Dust jacket lightly age tanned on spine, around edges of front and back. Light soiling to small part of dust jacket front, looks cleanable.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial boards. No dj issued. In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble's mother arrives on the Moomin family's doorstep with her seventeen new children. Finally, a prophet arrives on the scene declaring that the happy Moomins are in fact not happy at all and need to get back to nature and be free. Moomin, of course, becomes more and more miserable the freer he gets.

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. 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.