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The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album 1925-1950

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1951

Seller ID: 006303

Binding: Hard Cover

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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Erotic Humor Volume 1, No. 1

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: 1975

Seller ID: 029863

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, 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 19...
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Erotic Humor Volume 1, No. 2

By: N/A

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, l...
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The Frenchman: A Photographic Interview with Fernandel Philippe Halsman

By: N/A

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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Mr. Dooley In Peace and In War

By: "Dooley, Martin" [Finley Peter Dunne]

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Boston, MA, Small, Maynard & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 006930

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

1st edition, limited to 10,000 copies. Green textured cloth, lettered in gilt. xviii + 260 pp. Lightly rubbed extrems, corners, slight shelf wear. Signed on front pastedown by former owner Dorrance Reynolds, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Christmas 1898.
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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: 0

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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My Crowd: A Deliciously Diabolical Collection of Cartoons Featuring the Original Addams Family

By: Addams, Charles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble Books: 2003

Seller ID: 033708

ISBN: 0760749671

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows slight shelf wear, now in archival mylar. 192 pp., illus. w/ b&w cartoons.
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Play It Again, Sam

By: Allen, Woody

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1969

Seller ID: 047665

ISBN: B00B3L6982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Black 1/4 cloth, red paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in gold foil. Orange dust jacket shows sunned spine panel, slight edge wear, mild soiling to plain rear panel. Light tanning to endpapers, book plate mounted on front flyleaf. Book club edition.
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I Like It Here

By: Amis, Kingsley

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co.: 1958

Seller ID: 042045

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG+

Yellow cloth, lettered in gold. Moderate binding lean, text block edges somewhat dulled by age, only slight shelf wear. Color illus. dust jacket is toned along spine panel and along edges and flap folds, rear panel, but shows only slight wear, now in mylar. 208 pp. 1st American edition.
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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: 0517516837

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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Knocks Witty Wise and --------

By: Antrim, Minna Thomas

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia PA, George W. Jacobs and Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 040725

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

Text block, complete bound signatures, apparently never bound. Final signature is a bit loose, but all binding threads are intact. Scattered light internal soiling. 1st ed.: Oct. 1905.
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The Oranging of America and Other Stories

By: Apple, Max

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Grossman Publishers: 1976

Seller ID: 044519

ISBN: 0670528013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dark blue 1/4 cloth, rust paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in orange. Essentially as issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows minor crease at top front flap corner, narrow line of faint dampstaining along top front edge, otherwise also essentially as issued, now in mylar. 1st editon, author's first book. vii,152 pp.
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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: 0825461138

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black and white illus. paper covered boards. 64 pp., illus. As issued.
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Peeps at People, Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup

By: Bangs, John Kendrick

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers: 1899

Seller ID: 033496

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: VG+

Dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt, illus. in ivory and orange, deckled text block edges. Modest shelf wear, cloth slightly flecked at a few points on rear cover, text block edges a bit dulled by age. Firm binding, clean interior beyond a few occasional soil marks in margins. Slight exposure at top front corner. 1898 copyright, dated 1899 on lower main title, presumed 1st edition. 185 pp., illus.
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Coffee & Repartee and the Idiot

By: Bangs, John Kendrick

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers: 1901

Seller ID: 036206

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Light brown cloth, lettered/illus. in ivory, deckled text block edges. 1st ptg. of "New Edition." vii,221 pp., illus. Mild shelf wear, a bit rubbed at corners and extremities. Firm binding, clean interior.
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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: 1573241962

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

7th ptg.: 2003. As issued. 189 pp., illus.
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Little Mr. Bouncer and His Friend Verdant Green, Also Tales of College Life

By: Bede, Cuthbert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Little, Brown: 1893

Seller ID: 012058

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Brown cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. 1st edition, matching dates. xv,292 pp., illus. Slightly rubbed extremities, modest binding lean. Very well preserved copy. Clean text block, firm binding. Cuthbert Bede's College Stories.
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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 Jägerbuch

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: 0918732018

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: 0932870708

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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Category: Humor