New York: Humorama, November 1969. A laugh riot of more than 200 cartoons, jokes, girls! Features comic book "Hothead Hotel Featuring Clerk Berserk McJerk; many black and white pin-up photos interspersed with lots of cartoons. More
New York: Timely Features, May 1971. 12 mo. 98 pp. Staple bound magazine. Color front cover. Black and white photos and cartoons. Best cartoon humor! Beautiful Girls! Joke Riot! published every other month. More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902. Illustrated with silhouette pictures by J. K. Bryans. First Edition. 12 mo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Red blind stamped cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in gold. 264 pp. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Ghoulishly witty illustrations by Edward Gorey: one (and sometimes two) to each poem. Stated first printing. Small 8vo hardcover. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Yellow textured paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. Paul Dehn's hair-raising parodies of familiar verses are a stinging effort to confront mankind with..... More
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. The amusing and appealing story of a Florida..... More
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. More
Pomegranate Communications, (2011). 9780764958854. A Pomegranate reproduction of the original 1965 edition. Square 8vo. 6-1/4" x 6-7/8", Unpaginated. Green pictorial paper covered boards which match the dust jacket. Unpaginated. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1979). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 0396076882. First printing of the 1979 re-issue of this book first published in 1966. Small 8vo. 7-1/4" x 6-3/4." Paper covered boards. . . . . a Tale of Baroque beauty about the Passion of Art and Price of..... More
Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, (2009). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 9780764950636. This edition first published by Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2009. Small 8vo. 7-3/8" x 6-1/2." Colorful paper covered boards. Unpaginated. On a long trip abroad, Gorey's young Drusilla is introduced to high art and gourmet meals. She gamely tries to appreciate..... More
Harcourt Inc. 0151006962. First printing of this republished edition with the letter A at beginning of letter line. There is no date of this republication but it was sometime after 2000. The original edition was done in 1968. Square 8vo. 6-3/4" x 7" hardcover. Pictorial paper covered boards. Unpaginated. More
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. "Of legal Fictions, Quirks, and Glosses, Attorney's gains, and Client's losses, Of..... More
New York: Viking Press. Illustrated with all the original beautiful, charming and funny pencil drawings by McCloskey. Seventh Printing, January 1963 of this book originally published in 1951. Large 8vo. 9-3/16" x 6-7/8". 191 pp. Beige cloth covered boards printed in brown. More
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..... More
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 funny charming little book by theologian John Edgar Park, (1879-1956) who served as President of..... More
Harper and Rowe, (1974). Pictorial cover and dust jacket illustration by Edward Gorey. Stated First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial yellow cloth cover. 211 pp. In this hilarious sequel to Freaky Friday, Annabel and her friends encounter mind- and time-boggling adventures which are always entertaining, but certainly don't work out quite as..... More
Reilly & Lee, 1955. Sid Hix. First Edition. Very good condition in a very good dust jacket. More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Charming textual illustrations by "Champ" Twenty-third edition. 12 mo. Green cloth stamped in gold and black. Dark blue endpapers. More