Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations by Geisert. Color illustrated laminated boards. No dust jacket. When the thieving Pigaroons steal a block of ice the River Patrollers had intended to carve into a sculpture for their ice festival, the Patrollers decide that they've had enough and devise a plan to teach their Pigaroon neighbors a lesson.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Reprinting POLICE COMICS #50-58 and PLASTIC MAN #4 in a handsome hardcover archive! Featuring an introduction by Bill Schelly and a host of innovative and unusual Golden Age Plastic Man tales.

Softcover. Chicago IL, Playboy Press , reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Some edge wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. More than 220 cartoons - 120 in full color.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. For 50 years, Playboy magazine has showcased the world's best and brightest cartoonists. Their spectacular stable of artists includes luminaries such as Buck Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and hundreds of others. More than 450 color cartoons feature sweet young things, terrible tarts, winsome wives, suitors, and studs -- a riotous chronicle of five decades of Playboy cartoons.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-green cloth stamped with brown decoration, 68 pages. Author's text illustrations throughout.. From the German of Wilhelm Busch by Charles T. Brooks. This book is printed throughout in red on pale green paper. First published by Roberts Brothers in 1883. Binding shaken, spine re-enforced with tape.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Hardcover, red cloth, faded at spine. Stamped in red and black. 361 pages plus four pages of ads at the rear. 8vo. Silhouette frontis and 51 full page silhouettes by Warren Rockwell. The further largely autobiographical stories of the lad Plupy and his youth in the Exeter, NH of the 1860's. Rear hinge cracked, mild soil to front fly leaf, bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 344 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Presents the years 1959 and 1960 of the politically progressive, influential newspaper strip. This is the first time Pogo has been complete and in chronological order anywhere-with all 104 Sunday strips from these two years presented in lush full color for since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections. In Volume 6, Albert Alligator and Beauregard Bugleboy fend off a man-from-Mars, and Howland Owl investigates Communist espionage in the postal system. Then, it's election year and Okefenokee Swamp gets a new presidential candidate, Fremount the Bugboy. His campaign slogan, "Jes' Fine," sparks political debates about just who can and should be president - maybe even a woman! Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Brown. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Oversized hardcover with illustrated boards. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Pictorial paper over boards, with an illustration of Popeye and a cutout on the front cover, so that the white and yellow lettering on the half title page is visible from the front cover. Measures 10.5 x 14.5". Volume one of a six-volume set. B+W daily strips, with the color Sunday strips. Biographical article by Bill Blackbeard. Foreword by Jules Feiffer.

Softcover. New York, King Features Syndicate, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 pages. Folio (9 1/2 x 13 1/8") flexible linen-like pictorial wraps, some cover soil, internally clean, overall VG. Illustrated on every page with large bright, vibrant color lithos featuring all of the familiar characters. There are 7 lines of text beneath each picture. with illustrations by E. C. Segar (his "cigar" logo printed on one of the illustrated pages). Story of Popeye and Wimpy's fishing trip. Clean.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn dust jacket. Non-paginated. Black & white cartoons by W. Miller, mostly from The New Yorker. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards, yellow cloth spine with green lettering. Preface by Carl Van Vechten, color frontispiece, b&w caricatures throughout by the artist: Stravinsky, Picasso, Willa Cather, Jack Dempsey, Mary Pickford, Ed Wynn, Babe Ruth ,Will Rogers, Eugene O'Neill, Paul Whiteman, Lillian Gish, Fanny Brice, many more famous personalities of the day. Some light foxing to some pages. Good plus. Clean.

Hardcover. San Rafael, CA, Neff-Kane, 1st Edition, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 196 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations and color photographs throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear at top and bottom of spine and small tear at top of back cover (see image). Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Black endpapers. Cover boards bound in silver cloth, red gilt title on spine. Conrad's special genius--his ability to convey a powerful message in the black and white of line and mass--has delighted readers for years. Also included are pictures of some his most famous bronze sculptures.

Hardcover. San Diego, CA, Idea & Design Works, LLC, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A lavish book devoted to the most important political satire and cartoon magazine in American history. Published from 1877 to 1918, Puck was regularly a major political battleground and is credited with single-handedly thwarting the third-term ambitions of Ulysses Grant in 1880 and electing Grover Cleveland to the presidency in 1884. Puck did it with art-lavish, color, full-page and two-page center-spread cartoons. It was the first American magazine to publish color lithographs on a weekly basis and, for nearly forty years, was a training ground and showcase for some of the country's most talented cartoonists, led by its co-founder, Joseph Keppler. This retrospective contains nearly 300 full-color plates.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 3rd Ed., 1875, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth decorated in gilt and black, 386 pages. 4 b&w engraved illustrations. Humorous tales of western rural life. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, The Offices of Punch, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes, pebbled green cloth over leather spine and corners. The set collects all of Punch Magazine for 1916. Hundreds of b&w cartoons lampooning British culture and politics leading up to World War II. Clean, bright set. Over 800 pages total.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, pictorial boards. Approximately 100 pages of cartoon strips in black and white. Paper tanning slightly, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, acetate-protected dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Villard Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong 6-5/8 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in color pictorial white boards. [140] unnumbered pages, with full-page illustrations of Edward Koren's cartoons. Clean copy.

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by Giselle Potter, very clean, tight copy, like new. Quentin Fenton Herter Third always does exactly what he should, from closing his mouth when he chews to putting away his toys. But Quentin Fenton has an awfully naughty shadow, who calls himself Quentin Fenton Herter Three. Three interrupts, stays up late, and never flosses. How do these two feel about each other? "They loathed each other cordially,/ did Quentin Third and Quentin Three." Strangely enough, though, they also envy each other "--a bit." And when good little Third has the opportunity to be bad one day, guess who steps in to take his place as a perfect gentleman?Amy MacDonald's clever rhymes are nicely complemented by Giselle Potter's unusual, naive-style illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 443 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black & white illustrations throughout on every page. 11" high X 8" wide, 439 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 439 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 443 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black & white illustrations throughout on every page. 11" high X 8" wide, 448 pages. The perfect tribute to the world's favorite dirty old man. It spans the years 1982 to 1989, a period when the artist was comfortably ensconced in rural California, raising his young daughter Sophie, who appears throughout this volume. But Crumb was still Crumb, declaring in one drawing, above a lovingly rendered tree, "As I get older I get more twisted, convoluted, depraved, cynical, embittered, self-centered, jaded, debauched, ruthless, greedy, conceited, set-in-my-ways, long-winded, absent-minded, prejudiced, closed-minded, misanthropic, nervous..." To prove this self-flagellating analysis he fills the pages with his signature perversions (in country settings), scathing social commentary, cruel self-portraits, experimental cubism... and some lovely sylvan landscape. His mastery of the Rapidograph pen is at its zenith here in his 40s, Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large format softcover, 64 pages of b&w comic art by Crumb. Introduction by Paul Krassner. Some tanning to edges of wrappers. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 188 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black & white illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. London/NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, decorated orange boards with silver stamping; in clean, crisp dust jacket with just a touch of shelfwear. Cartoonist and British national treasure Ralph Steadman's unique take on a variety of extinct birds. Ralph documents them all in this series of remarkable paintings, featuring unique interpretations of well-known birds such as the Great Auk, Passenger Pigeon and Dodo, along with less familiar members of the feathersome firmament. Text by Ceri Levy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 80 pages, b&w illustrations by James Marshall.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 219 pages. Clean, bright copy. "I doubt very much that I'm the only person who's finding it more and more difficult to want to read or write novels," David Shields acknowledges in Reality Hunger, then seeks to understand how the conventional literary novel has become as lifeless a form as the mass market bodice-ripper. Shields provides an ars poetica for writers and other artists who, exhausted by the artificiality of our culture, "obsessed by real events because we experience hardly any," are taking larger and larger pieces of the real world and using them in their work. Reality Hunger is made of 600-odd numbered fragments, many of them quotations from other sources, some from Shields's own books, but none properly sourced--the project being not a treasure hunt or a con but a good-faith presentation of what literature might look like if it caught up to contemporary strategies and devices used in the other arts, and allowed for samples (that is, quotation from art and from the world) to revivify existing forms. Shields challenges the perceived superiority of the imagination and exposes conventional literary pieties as imitation writing, the textual equivalent of artificial flavoring, sleepwalking, and small talk. I can't name a more necessary or a more thrilling book.

Hardcover. US, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color, 86 pages of b&w cartoons reprinted from the New York Herald Tribune, most dated 1927. Light use to edges of boards; tight and sound, no markings.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright, unclipped dust jacket. 575 pages, b&w illustrations. Stephen Kercher here provides the first comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on an impressive range of comedy--not just standup comedians of the day but also satirical publications like MAD magazine, improvisational theater groups such as Second City, the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, and TV shows like That Was the Week That Was--Kercher reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember. His history of these comedic luminaries shows that for a sizeable audience of educated, middle-class Americans who shared such liberal views, the period's satire was a crucial mode of cultural dissent. For such individuals, satire was a vehicle through which concerns over the suppression of civil liberties, Cold War foreign policies, blind social conformity, and our heated racial crisis could be productively addressed. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Drawn & Quarterly;, Hardcover in oblong decorated orange cloth covers. color comics/cartoons throughout. Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. Some particularly favoured targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial mercenary of the dispassionate editor, the willful obscurantism of the vainglorious poet. Quake in the presence of the stack of bedside books as it grows taller! Gnash your teeth at the ever-moving deadline that the writer never meets! Quail before the critic's incisive dissection of the manuscript! And most importantly, seethe with envy at the paragon of creative productivity!

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w cartoon illustrations by Quentin Blake. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 8th pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial glossy boards, 61 pages illustrated in color by Quentin Blake. Who but Roald Dahl could think up such mouthwatering and deliciously disgusting foods as Lickable Wallpaper, Stink Bugs Eggs, and Eatable Pillows? Now there,s a practical guide to making these and other delicacies featured in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Dahl's other books, with easy, step-by-step recipes that range from the delectable to the truly revolting. Quentin Blake's illustrations combine with full-color photographs of the luscious results to perfectly capture Roald Dahl's wicked sense of fun.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by David Shannon. SIGNED BY SCIESZKA. From the minds of Scieszka and Shannon comes a tale of a quixotic robot determined to conquer the earth. The only problem is that the earth he lands on is a suburban kitchen and he is three inches tall. Robot Zot, the fearless and unstoppable warrior, leaves a trail of destruction as he encounters blenders, toasters, and televisions. But when he discovers the princess...a pink cell phone...his mission takes a new course. Robot Zot must learn how to be a hero - in the name of true love.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday/Dolphin, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages. Collects articles, interviews, photos on The- Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-Players: Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Bill Murray and some of the guests: Candice Bergen, Steve Martin, Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin, more. Photos by Edie Baskin. Filled with bios and photos in color and b & w of the early days of Saturday Night Live. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 142 pages. Humoroue instructions for the man living on his own. Cartoons by Quenin Blake. Book is clean, very good, dust jacket is worn, chipped.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran Company, 1sr, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth boards with gilt titles and a mounted paper label on the front board. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. A humorous vintage travel guide to the American West. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Limited edition. Brown leather with elaborately decorative 22Kt gold gilt embossed to the front and rear covers and to the spine, gilt embossed titles, rules and decorations to the nicely hubbed spine, sewn head and tail bands, all page edges fine gilt, satin moire end-papers, and bound-in silk ribbon marker. A collection of thirty-five of the best stories by Lardner. 569 pages. 2-color illustrations by Gerry Gersten.Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, b&w cartoon contraptions by the master. Bright, clean copy in unclipped dust jacket. A collection of Rube Goldberg's wackiest inventions features more than two thousand "schematics" from the immensely popular comic for everything from suicide machines to a pick-pocket device designed for politicians.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated by Diane Stanley. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Chicago, Indiana Society of Chicago, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with red plastic comb binding. 40 full-page b&w cartoons by various artists, all honoring McCutcheon at the 29th Annual Dinner of The Indiana Society on Dec. 14, 1940: Fontaine Fox, Webster, Fitzpatrick, Milton Caniff, Shoemaker, Chester Gould, many others. Cover by Paul Plaschke. Bright, clean copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. Paris, Denoel, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 123 pages of b&w cartoons by Sempe, originally published in 1964. Green cloth covers with fading to spine. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good. French language but most of his cartoons are wordless.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Full color and black & white illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse. Faint foxing along hinges on preliminary pages. Rubbing along cover edges and spine, upper right corners with shallow bump. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 82 pages. pre-World War II collection of satire on history, man and current events. Periwinkle linen-lilke cloth with bright red cover lettering and decoration. Day illustrates his humorous verse with Thurber-like cartoons. Nice dustjacket with light edgewear, mild tanning, unclipped.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192pages. Collects, for the first time, the complete adventures of four of the influential Mad magazine cartoonist's more arcane comics creations: Scoop Scuttle, Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin' Jupiter - restored, as they've never been seen before! In this rip-roaring retrospective of the influential Mad magazine cartoonist, Basil Wolverton's often-warped imagination combines with his outlandishly wacky visual humor to fascinate and delight. It collects the ultra-rare treasures Scoop Scuttle, Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin' Jupiter - as they've never been seen before! Due to the rock-bottom printing methods of ten-cent comic books, Wolverton's intricate line work was routinely obscured, and often obliterated. In this collection, every effort has been made to restore the art to its original splendor, and to at last present the uniquely detailed graphics of this justly revered comic book master. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Britton, 1st, 1918, Illustrated boards, oblong 8 X 4 inches. 96 pages of b&w cartoons. The travails of Silas N. Dobbin Of Pickle Center, Iowa during his arrival and training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center during World War I. The book is a compilation of cartoons that ran in the camp newspaper, and was drawn by 18-year-old Perce Pearce, who would go on to be a writer, director, and producer at Walt Disney Studios. Pearce was the model for Doc in the cartoon feature Snow White, which he co-directed. Pearce's credits also included the Disney pictures Bambi, Song of the South, Treasure Island, Rob Roy and The Story of Robin Hood. Light stains to covers otherwise clean and tight.

Softcover. New York, Wm. H. Wise, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Comic strips by Clare Briggs that originally appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune. This being one volume of a seven volume set. Light wear to cover corners and edges. Clean, tight copy. Pebbled flexible cloth covers. Clean.