Jeeps & Jests
G. P. Putnam's Sons, January 1943. Bairnsfather, Bruce. First Edition. Hardback. Cartoons. More
Humor
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The Black Cat Club, Negro Humor and Folklore
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
Quake, Quake, Quake - A Leaden Treasury of English Verse
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
Sinbad, 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..... More
Al 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. The amusing and appealing story of a Florida..... More
Uncle 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. More
The Evil Garden
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
The Gilded Bat
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
The Secrets Vol I The Other Statue
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
Free 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. More
The 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. "Of legal Fictions, Quirks, and Glosses, Attorney's gains, and Client's losses, Of..... More
The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Co., n.d. Ca (1940s). With pictures by George Herriman. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-7/16". Red cloth covered boards. Pictorial cover stamped in black. Spine in grey and black. 477 pp. Complete and unabridged, manufactured under wartime conditions. Book in three parts: Archy and Mehitabel;..... More
Four Frogs in a Box (all volumes signed!)
New York: Dial Press, (1967) (1969) (1971) (1973). 0803727763. 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..... More
Centerburg Tales
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
Internal 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..... More
How 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 funny charming little book by theologian John Edgar Park, (1879-1956) who served as President of..... More
A Billion for Boris
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
Retiring Time
Reilly & Lee, 1955. Sid Hix. First Edition. Very good condition in a very good dust jacket. More
Granfa' Grig Had a Pig
Little Brown and Company, 1976. Trip, Wallace. Inscribed and signed by the author. First Edition. Soft cover. More
Being a Boy
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
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