Category: Humor

Erotic Humor Volume 1, No. 1

Price: $35.00

Publisher: : 1975

Seller ID: 029863

Condition: Near Fine

Booklet, stiff color wraps, staple-bound. Slight shelf wear, punch-hole (probably a remainder indication) through top corner of front cover and first leaf, not affecting any lettering or illustrations, otherwise fully intact. 48 pp., illus. Reprints various "Tijuana Bibles" (sexually explicit cartoons often featuring licensed characters) from the 1930s, including entries with Popeye, Wimpy, Dagwood, Moon Mullins, Toots, and other less well-remembered characters, also some more contemporary art reminiscent of R. Crumb. No publisher or copyright date indicated, likely early to mid 1970s. Sc...
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Erotic Humor Volume 1, No. 2

Price: $35.00

Publisher: : 1975

Seller ID: 029864

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Booklet, stiff color wraps, staple-bound. Slight shelf wear, punch-hole (probably a remainder indication) through top corner of front cover and first leaf, not affecting any lettering or illustrations, otherwise fully intact. 48 pp., illus. Reprints various "Tijuana Bibles" (sexually explicit cartoons often featuring licensed characters) from the 1930s, including entries with Popeye, Dagwood and Blondie, Betty Boop, Henry, Laurel and Hardy, and other less well-remembered characters, also some more contemporary art reminiscent of R. Crumb. No publisher or copyright date indicated, likely ea...
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The Frenchman: A Photographic Interview with Fernandel Philippe Halsman

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1949

Seller ID: 040044

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stiff pictorial wraps. Mild shelf wear, a bit rubbed along edges and at corners, mild toning along spine panel. Unpaginated, alternating interview questions with portraits of Halsman, printed on rectos only. Scarce.
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The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album 1925-1950

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1951

Seller ID: 006303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

No edition indicated. Black 1/4 cloth, yellow embossed paper over boards. Lightly soiled, with slightly exposed corners and extremities. Vintage cartoons from the golden age of "The New Yorker."
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The Comic History of Rome

By: A'Beckett, Gilbert A.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., Ltd. : 1881

Seller ID: 050416

ISBN: B00AX9U0BM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG+

Dark blue 1/4 cloth, tan cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt, deckled text block edges. Cover cloth is lightly soiled and shows a few minor marks, mild rubbing to spine extremities and along bottom edge, now protected in a clear acetate sleeve. Firm binding, firm hinges (with evidence of neat repair), clean interior. xviii,418 pp., illus. w/ 10 engraved plates and many line drawings in text. All of the steel engravings and several of the in-text drawings have been hand-colored and retain vibrant color. Issued variously; this copy is of the "large paper" variety, royal 8vo.
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Berks Banality

By: Adams, Charlie Jr.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Reading, PA, R. V. Publications

Seller ID: 038206

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff illus. wraps. Light shelf wear, slightly cocked binding, slight spotting along top text block edge. 152 pp., illus. w/ cartoons.
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Tobogganing on Parnassus

By: Adams, Franklin P.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page and Co. : 1918

Seller ID: 036114

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Brown cloth, lettered/illus. in white and black. Mild shelf wear, a bit rubbed at corners and spine extremities. Gift inscription dated 1919 on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. xii,144 pp. Firm binding, clean interior.
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Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s

By: Adelman, Bob; Art Spiegelman (intro. essay); Richard Merkin (commentary)

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 2004

Seller ID: 061125

ISBN-13: 9780743255899

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Stiff color illus. wraps, oblong format. Former owner's address label mounted on lower title page, otherwise as issued. 1st ptg. 160 pp., illus.
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Side Effects

By: Allen, Woody

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Random House : 1980

Seller ID: 059289

ISBN-13: 9780394511047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black 1/4 cloth, black paper covered boards, lettered in silver. 2nd ptg. As issued. Dust jacket shows price-clipped front flap, slight surface rubbing, nearly as issued, now in mylar. 151 pp.
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Hooray for Captain Spaulding! Verbal and Visual Gems from "Animal Crackers"

By: Anobile, Richard J. (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Darien House/Crown Publishers : 1974

Seller ID: 033791

ISBN-13: 9780517516836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Red 1/4 cloth, light blue paper covered boards, lettered in black. Very slight shelf wear, slightly rubbed at heel of spine. Color illus dust jacket shows slight shelf wear, a bit of age toning, small chip at top front corner, and diagonal crease to front flap, now in mylar. 224 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs. Dust jacket art by Hirschfeld.
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Lady Chatterley's Husbands: An Anonymous Sequel to the Celebrated Novel Lady Chatterley's Lover

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, William Faro, Inc. : 1931

Seller ID: 034804

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Blue cloth variant, stamped titles lettered in yellow, deckled text block edges. Slight shelf wear, a few rough-cut fore-edges, otherwise nearly as issued. Firm binding, clean interior. 233 pp. This is the illustrated edition; Faro also issued an edition (in black boards) with no illustrations, printed from the same plates, also dated 1931 with no indication of subsequent printings.
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Conventional Wisdom

By: Auderset, Alain

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mill Hill, London and Grand Rapids, MI, Monarch Books : 2006

Seller ID: 036200

ISBN-13: 9780825461132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black and white illus. paper covered boards. 64 pp., illus. As issued.
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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball Warfare

By: Austin, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago Review Press : 2009

Seller ID: 053360

ISBN-13: 9781556529535

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Stiff color illus. wraps. As issued. x,246 pp., illus. 17th ptg.
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It's a Chick Thing: Celebrating the Wild Side of Women's Friendship

By: Beanland, Ame Mahler, and Emily Miles Terry

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Jamaica Plain, MA, Conari Press/2 Be Books : 2000

Seller ID: 015888

ISBN-13: 9781573241960

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

7th ptg.: 2003. As issued. 189 pp., illus.
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A Survey

By: Beerbohm, Max

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Co. : 1921

Seller ID: 042262

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG-

Brown 1/4 cloth, brown textured paper covered boards, lettered in gilt. Spine extremities rubbed with minor loss, corners rubbed with exposure. Former owner's signature in pencil on front flyleaf. Illus. w/ 51 tipped-in drawings with captioned tissue guards. Firm binding. First American with 1921 date on lower main title (copyright page undated but printed from British plates, 1921 date given in dedication).
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Das Lustige Jgerbuch

By: Berger, Arthur

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Berlin, Germany, Paul Parey : 1933

Seller ID: 010313

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Undated, ca. 1933 based on date of front cover illustration by Olaf Gulbransson. 183 pp., w/ 197 humorous illus. Moderately soiled illustrated cloth, somewhat rubbed along joints, with exposure at corners and short (approx. 1/4") closed tears along both joints at tail of spine. Clean interior. Text in German. Apparent 1st, with no indication of any subsequent printing. Scarce.
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Chers Amis [Dear Friends]

By: Beyda, Janet Belden; Nicholas Meyer (intro.)

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, Pomerica Press Ltd. : 1977

Seller ID: 038644

ISBN-13: 9780918732019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Black cloth, lettered in silver foil. Light dampstaining to top text block corner, visible as darkening on white pages and only as slight waviness to paper on dark pages, otherwise nearly as issued. Color pictorial dust jacket also shows light dampstaining to flap corners, minor shelf wear. A few slight spots of foxing internally.
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The Rise and Fall of American Humor

By: Bier, Jesse

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston : 1968

Seller ID: 042147

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Turquoise blue cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered/decorated in gold foil and red, top text block edge stained pale red. Very slight shelf wear, text block edges lightly soiled. Firm binding, clean interior. Color illus. dust jacket shows minor edge wear, a few surface marks, 3/4" closed tear at head of rear joint, now in mylar. xii,506 pp.
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Extra Credit

By: Black, Jeff

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Alyson Publications : 1985

Seller ID: 042934

ISBN-13: 9780932870704

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stiff color illus. wraps. Former owner's address inscription at top corner of half-title page and his handwritten review on lower title page, otherwise unmarked. Binding lean with one stress crease. 182 pp. 1st ptg. w/ complete number line.
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The Documents in Evidence [Unusual Epistolary Tale Told in Facsimile MS., 1894]

By: Blossom, Henry M., Jr.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: St. Louis, MO, Buxton & Skinner : 1894

Seller ID: 006827

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Very Good

Portfolio, stiff tan paper, a bit toned toward edges, with a few mild soil marks and modest edge/corner wear, one small notch lacking along top front edge. Some rubbing to binding fold. Original thread binding partially present. Series of facsimile manuscript letters, tipped in, documenting an imagined epistolary correspondence between Robert Summer Howe and Dorothy Carr, with the additions of several news clippings/notices and inclusions by Howe's old comrade Ormsby Farnsworth, who "gets the girl" in the end, as indicated in a wedding announcement from "St. Louis Life." Each of the 12 inserts...
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Altar Ego Musings

By: Bohm, R. K.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Montgomery, AL, E-BookTime, LLC : 2007

Seller ID: 036837

ISBN-13: 9781598247121

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Stiff color illus. wraps. As issued. 193 pp. Inscribed by author on main title, personalized to one of his former Muhlenberg College colleagues, signed as "RKB," undated, with author's address label stapled to a rear blank, accompanied by author's 1-page TLS, also signed "RKB."
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Humor 2 - From the exhibition, Humor '88 held at the Society of Illustrators, New York City, November 1988

By: Bossert, Jill, and the Society Of Illustrators

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Madison Square Press : 1988

Seller ID: 054373

ISBN-13: 9780823048830

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Pale red cloth, lettered in blind. A few spots of foxing on half-title and title pages, slight foxing along text block fore-edge, otherwise as issued. Color illus. dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. 1st ed.
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Neues Wilhelm Busch-Album: Sammlung Lustiger Bildergeschichten mit 1500 Bildern

By: Busch, Wilhelm

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Freiburg and Gutersloh, Germany, Hermann Klemm / C. Bertelsmann Verlag : 1956

Seller ID: 005175

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Olive cloth, somewhat toned along back strip and toward edges. 416 pp., fully illus. Clean interior. Dust jacket shows some edge chipping with minor paper loss and a few short closed tears, now in archival mylar.
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The Pythons: Autobiography by the Pythons

By: Chapman, Graham, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Terry Jones

Price: $39.95

Publisher: New York, Thomas Dunne Books-St. Martin's Press : 2003

Seller ID: 043786

ISBN-13: 9780312311445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Blue cloth-effect paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in silver foil. Slight rubbing along top edge at front corner, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket shows a vertical line of light soiling on rear panel, otherwise as issued, now in mylar. First edition, complete number line. 360 pp., fully illus. in color.
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The Pythons: Autobiography by the Pythons

By: Chapman, Graham, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Terry Jones

Price: $34.95

Publisher: New York, Thomas Dunne Books-St. Martin's Press : 2003

Seller ID: 047112

ISBN-13: 9780312311445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Blue paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in silver foil. Bottom corners lightly bumped, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket shows a few light spots, with minor rubbing to bottom front corner, now in mylar. First U.S. edition, complete number line. 360 pp., fully illus. in color.
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Category: Humor