Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 2nd Printing, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover. Black & white cartoons by Gardner Rea. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Milwaukie WI, Dark Horse Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 2. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Presenting the second in a series that collects, in chronological order, all the Sunday pages of the celebrated newspaper strip! Discover the abundant wonder and dazzling beauty in the world--as seen through the eyes of creator Frank King and his beloved characters, Walt and Skeezix--in some of Gasoline Alley's most artistically imaginative art! Reprinted in full color, this giant-sized volume collects every Gasoline Alley Sunday strip from 1923 through 1925. Hardcover, 128 pages, 16 X 12".
Hardcover. Milwaukie WI, Dark Horse Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 2. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Presenting the second in a series that collects, in chronological order, all the Sunday pages of the celebrated newspaper strip! Discover the abundant wonder and dazzling beauty in the world--as seen through the eyes of creator Frank King and his beloved characters, Walt and Skeezix--in some of Gasoline Alley's most artistically imaginative art! Reprinted in full color, this giant-sized volume collects every Gasoline Alley Sunday strip from 1923 through 1925. Hardcover, 128 pages, 16 X 12". Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, hardcover, green cloth with black lettering. Stated Ninth Printing on copyright page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, HMH Books for Young Readers, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages. Like all best friends, George and Martha do everything together--go to the movies, play at the beach, and just hang around not doing much of anything. George and Martha teach each other (and adoring readers) that even in a close friendship, privacy is important, practical jokes can sometimes backfire, and among other things, pouring split pea soup into your loafers to spare the chef's feelings is not the best-laid plan. A man with a talent for friendship, James Marshall defined its very essence in his stories about the world's two best friends. In this volume, all thirty-five episodes are brought together to celebrate friendship and two of the most lovable characters ever created. Each of these brief tales is filled with humor, and James Marshall's drawings are guaranteed to spark feelings of empathy, delight, and self-recognition. This collector's edition includes 35 stories, an introduction by Maurice Sendak as well as appreciations by some of the top authors and illustrators working in children's publishing today. It is a true testament to James Marshall as an author, as an artist, and as a person that his work and his life inspired such a diverse and immensely talented group. Noted children's book historian Anita Silvey provides an afterword.
Hardcover. London , Bell & Daldy, reprint, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in 3/4 polished leather with marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, raised bands. Engraved title and twelve full-page engraved plates and 116 engravings on wood by Cruikshank. 277 pages, humorous essays and commentary throughout by various writers. Reprint of the 1845 Edition.
Hardcover. NY, Taschen, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, A color facsimile of the complete pages of George Herriman's Krazy Kat 1935-44. One of the first comics to be considered a work of art, Krazy Kat delights with its characterization and visual-verbal creativity alongside the slapstick shenanigans between Krazy and Ignatz the mouse. This book comes with an illustrated introduction by Alexander Braun. The premise is simple: a black cat loves scheming a white mouse who incessantly throws bricks at the cat's head, which police dog Officer Pupp, secretly harboring a passionate love for the cat, tries to prevent. George Herriman endlessly plays with the above formula in his legendary newspaper strip Krazy Kat, published from 1913 until his death in 1944. Clean, bright copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and repaired dust jacket. A collection of 200 Price cartoons, mostly from The New Yorker. 96 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 5th pr, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light soil and edgewear. 144 pages. Black & white cartoon illustrations by William Steig.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY LANE SMITH WITH DRAWING OF A PAIR OF GLASSES OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Lane Smith. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Bill Peet. Dust jacket with slight darkening to spine, minor edge wear. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages, 175 b&w cartoons by Lorenz that ran in the 1980s. Illustrated wraps.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 7th pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. "With the same delightfully irreverent spirit that he brought to his retellings of Little Red Riding Hood, Marshall enlivens another favorite. . . . The illustrations are fraught with delicious humor and detail." Clean copy, no dust jacket. Top of spine has a small tear.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by James Marshall. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Caldecott Honor sticker on front.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil to covers. Black and white illustrations by various artist. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KEVIN HENKES ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Cleveland OH, The Cleveland News Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 96 pages. Lettering & Embellishments Conceived & Executed by W. J. Morgan & Co. Covers worn with light soil, spine paper worn. Still a solid copy. Name on rear cover. Amusing humor from the turn of the last century. Profusely and humorously illustrated with many in-text sketches. Ezra Freemont Kendall was an American actor-comedian, humorist, playwright and author who was known for his depiction of typical New England Yankees. During his time in vaudeville Kendall was said to have been among the highest paid monologist in America.
NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black design, unpaginated. 224 original cartoons and drawings of George Price; including excerpts from Price's diary recounting his daily antics working for the New Yorker, Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Bump to bottom corner of front cover, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, good-humored fun by some of the world's foremost cartoonists at work in the mid-20th century, b&w drawings throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, good-humored fun by some of the world's foremost cartoonists at work in the mid-20th century, including Charles Addams, Ed Arno, Johnny Hart, Tony Munzlinger, Charles Schulz and George Price. Cartoons that originally appeared in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Punch, and Look are here given full pages. 9 x 12", 140 pages.
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.