Humor

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1sr, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Janet Chenery. Dust jacket with $1.95 price at top right corner of inside flap. Light foxing to front and rear endpapers, and some pages. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover. Features 48 black & white illustrations by Harrison Cady. Mustard colored cloth covers with green and orange illustrations, Light wear along edges. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 2nd pr., 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with embossed decoration on front cover, gilt faded on darkened spine, 325 pages. Drawings by Roese. Title page dated 1932, publisher's design on copyright page but no First Edition stated, so assumed 2nd printing. Topper, now a retired bank executive, is galavanting in the south of France with the very same mischievous, sexy, prohibition-despising ghosts as accomplices. Basis for the 1938 feature film starring Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray. Mild edgewear, clean and tight.

Softcover. Miami Beach FL, Dennis McMillan, 1st pbk., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, the second book in the authors' series of YA mysteries set at the Mohonk Mountain House in upstate New York. In 125 pages with photos throughout & a quiz, Introduction by Stephen King (who also mysteriously appears in a photo). Cover illustration by famed cartoonist Gahan Wilson, back cover by Joe Servello. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. With Mama Cactus-Eared Rabbit down with the flu, her mischievous twins, Munchit and Crunchit, and their friends--Rufus Coyote and his grumpy sister, Greyer, and cousin Arnold the Armadillo--set out to cook Mama a perfect get-well meal. Color illustrations by the author. Clean.

New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 57 pages. Black & white illustrations by Glen Rounds. Dust jacket with light rubbing. Relates how Uncle Lemon got his spring in the middle of the driest summer on record and the troublesome consequences it brought him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Margaret K. McElderry, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by John O'Brien. A collection of limericks about Uncle Switch, an eccentric who does everything topsy-turvy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full red leather covers with gilt decorations, spine has raised bands; marbled endpapers; satin ribbon marker; all edges gilt; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean. First published in England in 1935. Introduction by Lord Atkin. Albert Haddock, the hero of countless lawsuits in A.P. Herbert's misleading cases, made his first public appearance in Punch about 1924. This collection of Misleading Cases contains many more sly jests at the absurdities of English law and will teach the reader more about the legal processes than lawyers know themselves.

Softcover. New York, Doubleday, 3rd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with Light edgewear to wrappers. Cartoons by Roz Chast. Cartoons use puns and the author's offbeat sense of humor to poke fun at human nature and modern life in the United States. Originally appeared 1978-1981 mostly in The New Yorker magazine.

Hardcover. London, Perpetua Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, Illustrated in black & white by the wonderful Ronald Searle. 111 pages. A humorous Grand Tour of America with some startling sidelights on the American character. Book is very good, the dust jacket with chipping, edgewear, fair only.

Hardcover. Garden City, NEW YORK, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages. True 1st edition. Foxing to end papers. Fading to spine. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Book Club Associates, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. Paris, J. Hetzel, Reprint, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 636 pages. Hardcover. French text only. Previous owners name at top left corner of preliminary page dated 1868. Gilt title and decorations on red leather spine with embossed pebbled cloth covers. Satirical black & white illustrations by Jean-Jacques Grandville. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Light rubbing to cover edges and spine. Small area of discoloration on lower section of front cover. Clean, bright pages.

Great Neck, NY, Musical Vistas, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of cartoons all about violins by an Hungarian artist who became one of the world's best violin makers. Dust jacket with light edgewear to corners.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. Only a few months after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor and the same year that Albert Camus offered the world his bleak vision of man's existence by introducing his philosophical dictum of The Absurd, Virgil Partch burst onto the scene with his own twist on the phrase. Partch was a cartoonist who offered comic counterpoint to the grim headlines and a unique perspective on human nature in the pages of the nation's most popular magazines. Known to millions by his jazzy signature, VIP, this comic genius ushered in a new era of the gag cartoon-zany, sometimes surreal, always hilarious-that inspired a generation of fellow cartoonists starting in the 1940s and '50s. His madcap style of humor was reflected in the cutting-edge comedic sensibilities of Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, Ernie Kovacs, Bob & Ray, Stan Freberg, and Jean Shepherd, and would position Partch as one of the most prolific "gag-men" of his day. VIP contributed to an astonishing array of magazines, wrote gags for other cartoonists, illustrated books, album covers, and advertisements, and adorned merchandise including, appropriately, cocktail glasses.VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch is the first time Partch's life and career has been treated in full, collecting amazing artwork from the entire range of his inspired career and featuring his own writings.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated. B&w illustrations by Crumb. "Yo! People! Here's yet another book of placemat drawings done while sitting in restaurants. Wow, doesn't this guy ever stop drawing?? Hey, now I have a good reason for making artwork on placemats. I'm no longer simply doodling to pass the time 'til the food arrives. I'm earning money while waiting to be served! I'm getting paid for it! Can you imagine??" (from R. Crumb's forward)

Hardcover. US, Baby Tattoo Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 64 pages. SIGNED book plate. A beautifully produced and richly illustrated book that showcases the day-to-day adventures of independent girl-about-town Victoria Psismall and her pet land octopus Otto. Thirty panoramic, full-page illustrations humorously chronicle the duo's home and social activities that include (among other things) bathing, biking, dating, cooking, playing croquet, and pumpkin carving. Accompanying text explains the "do"s and "don't"s of living with a large land octopus. The book's art is extremely detailed, and each illustration tells its own visual story. The Victorian era characters and period-influenced design elements combine to create a wonderful, collectible art-object for those who still value the classic elegance of ink-on-paper. The hardcover binding is plussed with two-layer embossing and spot varnish, and the interior is printed on extra heavy paper. An exquisite volume for lovers of books, art and pets.

Hardcover. Jaffrey NH, Sparhawk Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Contains black & white and color cartoons by Tripp. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Reprints the original newspaper dailies from 1923 & 1924. King was the first cartoonist to have his characters age in real time and have modern story lines, a landmark conception for comic strips in the early twentieth century. There is a new eighty-page introduction by journalist Jeet Heer.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Reprints the original newspaper dailies from 1921 & 1922.

Hardcover. Milan, Mondadori, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large folio, illustrated boards, 191 pages. Color illustrations from early animated shorts by the Disney Studio. Classic cartoons from Plane Crazy in 1928 to Ferdinand The Bull in 1938. Binding is oversz. bds. Scarce.

Hardcover. Seattle WA , Fantagraphics, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Don Rosa throughout. Includes appendix of color comic book covers by Don Rosa. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition. Uncle Scrooge, the world's richest duck, knows exactly where he got every coin he ever earned. And in this fourth book of Duck epics by Don Rosa, that story begins to unfold at last! Relive Scrooge's Scottish boyhood as Last of the Clan McDuck,then his teenage years as Master of the Mississippi on Uncle Pothole's steamboat! Witness Scrooge's first fights with the Beagle Boys and Flintheart Glomgold and in a bonus chapter, his earliest meeting with Magica De Spell! Presented with brilliant color and a treasure trove of Rosa's cover art and behind-the-scenes factoids, these Duckburg epics are back in a definitive, comprehensive edition.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 215 pages in color. From the Everglades to the Grand Canyon, danger and intrigue at every turn! Carl Barks' first foray into his signature series of adventures in lost civilizations takes the Ducks deep into the Everglades, where they find themselves bedeviled by the enigmatic Gneezles, who have escaped detection from outsiders since the days of Ponce de Leon - and want to keep it that way. The fun comes fast and furious as Donald invents a radar detector to track the nephews, the boys open their own detective agency, an ice-skating race, a water-skiing race, the nephews fall into the Grand Canyon, and Donald decides to build the largest kite in the world! Plus: Barks's only Mickey Mouse mystery, Mickey Mouse and Riddle of the Red Hat. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, Inc., 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 210 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Extensive color illustrations throughout by Carl Barks, Includes appendix of sources and historical information. Clean, tight copy.