Item 1656Jeeps & Jests
G. P. Putnam's Sons, January 1943. Bairnsfather, Bruce. First Edition. Hardback. fine / good.
Cartoons. Item #1656
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Item 1426Sinbad, A Dog's Life
New York City: Coward McCann, Inc., 1930. 4to. 10-7/8" x 8-5/8". Pictorial tan paper covered boards stamped in red and black. Unpaginated. 40 leaves, each printed only on the recto side, telling a little story about the adventures of the terrier Sinbad in 12 vignette pictures. Of course Sinbad has a boy and a grandma. There are a few leaves with 1" closed tears. I looked for info to collate this book but could not find how many leaves there should be. I looks like there could be a page missing but I cannot tell for sure. Still it is so cute and so funny and it is in very good condition. Item #1426
Item 992Al Alligator and How He Learned to Play the Banjo
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1947. Story and Pictures by W. J. Pat Enright. Half title p. with a special illustration and signature in brown ink by the author/illustrator. First edition. Small 4to. 10" x 7". Pictorial orange cloth. 98 pp. This charming book is clean and tight and in near fine condition BUT for the fact that a previous owner affixed the protective dust jacket cover to the pastedown endpapers, both front and back. Attempt at removal has already lifted some of the paper on the pictorial endpapers. Also, for some weird reason someone pasted a newspaper photo of alligators on the verso of the free front endpaper leaving a phantom on the page with the signed illustration! Sigh! / Dust jacket is sturdy but spine is faded. 1/2" chip at top of spine; a little minor chipping at bottom of spine and fold corners. Two diagonal creases across top panel. Overall very good.
The amusing and appealing story of a Florida Everglades alligator who, under the patient guidance of kindly old Uncle Joe, learns how to play the banjo and to sing with a TREMENDOUS voice. Al Alligator joins the circus at Sarasota and becomes the most ASTOUNDING attraction it has ever had. Millions of people throughout the country swarm to see and hear him and he receives a SUPER salary. However, before the season is over he and Uncle Joe grow so homesick that they insist on leaving the circus and retiring from public life. Al Alligator and Uncle Joe buy their native Florida swampland and make it a refuge for wildlife and a "rest home" for the mischievous monkeys and assorted weary animals from the circus. Life is full of fun and adventure for Al and his friends, from PRODIGIOUS picnics to STUPENDOUS snake battles to MAGNIFICENT moonlight son sessions to - a GRAND 'GATOR CHORUS ALL Al's OWN! The author's many delightful drawings help swing along the story to perfection. A perfect read-aloud book for parents and children from 7 up.
Dust jacket has price of $1.50. Item #992
Item 1222Uncle Wiggily's Picture Book
New York: Platt & Munk Co., Inc., no date (ca. 1940). With Twelve Illustrations in Color and Thirty-three in Black and White by Lansing Campbell. Large Squarish 8vo. Pictorial orange printed endpapers. A touch of rubbing at extremities. Overall a clean, tight very good copy. Item #1222
Item 2146The Crile Cornball Collection of Fiction, Fact and Fantasy
1980. Signed on the limitation page. Signed Limited Edition Number 240 of 300. red cloth. fine. Item #2146
Item 1392Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches
new York: P.F. Collier. no date (1887 by Charles Scribners Sons). 8vo. Pictorial brown cloth covered boards stamped in cream and green. Halftone frontispiece illustration. 312 pp. Cream colored ink flaking off spine and off cover. Fore-edge of back board a little frayed up and down. (See photo). Otherwise the book is clean, tight and very good. Item #1392
Item 922The Pleader's Guide: A Didactic Poem in Two Parts: Containing the Conduct of a Suit at Law, with the Arguments of Counsellor Bother'um and Counsellor Bore'um in an Action Betwixt John-a-Gull, and John-a-Gudgeon, for Assault and Battery, at a late Contested Election.
T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, By A. Wilson, Wild Court, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1803. 16mo. 6-5/16" x 4-1/16". Marbled paper covered boards. Leather spine with raised bands and decorated panels tooled on gold.. Marbled paper endpapers. 612 pp. A little wear at top of spine and a little rubbing at bottom of spine. Otherwise a tight, clean, very good to fine book.
"Of legal Fictions, Quirks, and Glosses, Attorney's gains, and Client's losses, Of Suits created, lost, and won, How to undo, and be undone, Whether by Common Law, or Civil, A man goes sooner to the Devil. Things which few mortals can disclose in Verse, or comprehend in Prose, I sing -- do thou, bright Phoebus, deign to shine for once in Chanc'ry-lane; And, Clio, if your pipe you'll lend to Mercury, the Lawyer's friend, That Usher of the golden Rod, of Gain and Eloquence the god, Shall lead my steps with guidance sure, Safe through the palpable obscure, And take my Parchments for his labour To cover your harmonious Tabour. " Item #922
Item 2326Barefoot Boy With Cheek
NY: Sun Dial Press, 1943. Will Crawford. Signed by Max Schulman on the recto of the front fly leaf in blue ink. First Edition. Red Cloth. FIne / In dust jacket with sunning to the spine and a few closed tears at the top of front panel. Item #2326
Item 1476Four Frogs in a Box (all volumes signed!)
New York: Dial Press, (1967) (1969) (1971) (1973). Each volume is inscribed and signed, "For David Best Wishes Mercer Mayer." Four signatures in all! Four volumes, 48 mo. 4" x 3-1/4". Each in color pictorial paper covered boards.15 leaves plus title page. Green endpapers. Three volumes have matching dust jackets. Only "Frog Where Are You" is missing its dust jacket. Overall condition is very good. A little light wear to slipcase and at the top and bottom of spines of dust jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 0803727763 Item #1476
Item 1308Internal Revenue, A Memorable Profile of America in the Zig-zag Years, 1928-1933
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1933. Signed by Christopher Morley on free front endpaper. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-5/8". Red blind stamped cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in gold. Top edge of text block stained red. Title page printed in red and black. 308 pp. Sepia tone photo illustrations at back of book. Deckled fore-edge. Engraved bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Spine a little faded. Otherwise a fine, tight, clean copy. / Dust jacket edges chipped and showing closed tears. Generally sturdy good plus.
Vivid, intuitive sketch of a America in the zig-zag years of 1928-1933. Item #1308
Item 1269How I Spent My Million, A Christmas Story
Boston: The Pilgrim Press, (1913). Illustrated with 9 silhouette pictures. 12 mo. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Black cloth covered boards with pictorial paper cover plates on front and back and paper spine label. 65 pp. A little chipping at edge of front cover plate otherwise overall fine condition.
A funny charming little book by theologian John Edgar Park, (1879-1956) who served as President of Wheaton College from 1926 to 1944.
Interesting that the copyright is listed 1913 by Luther H. Cary. Item #1269
Item 2202One for the Road
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1949. Illustrations by R. Taylor. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-18" x 5-1/2". Beige cloth covered boards stamped in brown. 253 pp. Previous owner's name on free front endpaper. Otherwise book is in fine condition. / Dust jacket has shallow tears and fraying along top and bottom edges. One inch closed tear at top edge of back panel. But still a sturdy attractive jacket.
Writing in the same colorful, biting prose avid readers of Ruark's syndicated column know so well, he provides a hilarious commentary on the droll attempts to beautify the American male, an enlightening chapter on Mae West and Dr. Kinsey, and still another section dealing richly with summer madness and the absurdities of banks and vacations. In other chapters Ruark tells how to achieve fame on the stage or break into the movies - obviously by shooting people or by smoking marijuana.
A fugitive professor from Yale who fell among snakes gets a brisk going over and such people as Tallulah Bankhead, Leo Durocher, Charles Luckman, Frank Costello, and a man who lives off other folks' ulcer pass under the amused scrutiny of the gentleman from North Carolina. Item #2202
Item 462Retiring Time
Reilly & Lee, 1955. Sid Hix. First Edition. Very good. / Very good.
Very good condition in a very good dust jacket. Item #462
Item 1433Granfa' Grig Had a Pig
Little Brown and Company, 1976. Trip, Wallace. Inscribed and signed by the author. First Edition. Soft cover. fine. Item #1433
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