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London: D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, 1979. Little wear to top and bottom of spine and blemish to back of book to this full color pictorial covers. Pages are unnumbered. Endpapers are full color and feature cartoons. Smiffy, Pop, Dick and Harry, The Banana Bunch, Numskulls, Little Mo, The Badd Lads, Beezer Teezers, Billy the Kid and Colonel Blink are some of the comic strips that grace this book's pages. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1946. with an introduction by Christopher Morley with illustrations by George Herriman 12mo size black clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on spine and gilt decorations on front cover; 670 toned pages Contents includes: The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel From Archy's Life of Mehitabel From Archy Does His Part The Old Soak The Old Soak's History of the World Short Stories Prefaces Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers The Almost Perfect State Serious Poetry Humorous Poetry Bumped head and heel of spine and bottom corners of front cover; scratch on back cover. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Herriman, George. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Private Eye Productions, 1978. 8vo size maroon leatherette hardcover has sewn binding and gilt titles on spine and front cover. The cover is designed to replicate a older book with gilt details on the cover illustrating a faux lock on front cover and faux metal corner tips on back cover. Unpaginated - more than 70 pages with many black and white cartoon illustrations and black and white photographs. The book has no formal Table of Contents. It is a collection of articles and editorial cartoons which appeared in Private Eye Magazine. Light wear to covers, bumped head and heel of spine and bottom front tip, light rubbing to the gilt titles. . Leatherette. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1957. Signed and inscribed by author in German on fep and dated 1959. Book has an interesting provenance. It is inscribed to Dr. Wolfgang Hochheimer, a German gestalt psychologist and Freudian psychiatrist who wrote a 1969 book on Carl Jung. The author, Dr. Martin Grotjahn was himself an eminent psychiatrist. 284 pages including index. Green cloth cover has some soil and wear to top and bottom of spine, corners and edges. Bumped lower corners. There are creases to the front cover at lower corner. Spot of soil to bottom of book. Small spot inside crease on contents page. Contents include: Sigmund Freud and the Psychoanalysis of Jokes; The Technique of Jokes; The Unconscious Tendancies of Jokes; Pleasure Mechanism and Psychogenesis; Different Forms of the Comic; On Humor; Freud's Later Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Problem of Humor; About the Jewish Joke; The Laughter of the Homeric Gods and the Absence of Laughter in the Bible. Thanks for shopping with us. 100%… Read More

Exeter, NH: Dusty Bunker, 1987. 8vo size trade paperback; 117 bright, white pages From back: "Broads and Narrows is a humorous attempt to point out the inequities in our language. It takes common terms that are sexually restrictive, and proposes the opposite... FALLEN WOMAN: A woman who has lost her chastity outside the bonds of holy matrimony. FALLEN MAN: He must have tripped." Edgewear. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.

Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1952. 128 pages book of black and white cartoons. The "cartoon apostolate" of Fransiscan Father Justin McCarthy. "He brings to the nation's comic page a new dimension of fun in the person of Brother Juniper." Interior pages are in great condition expect for one creased page corner; covers have sunning, soil, chipped top of spine and name written on front. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Reading Copy/No Jacket. Illus. by McCarthy, Father Justin. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Running Press, 1996. Hardcover with dust jacket; 3.25 inches long and 2.75 inches wide Unpaginated, about 12 pages with 6 pop ups and brightly colored illustrations. Suitable for children or adults. New, old stock (none of the computer monitors pictured are slim.) We note a small, light spot or foxed spot on title page. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Hard Cover. New/As New. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall.

London: Square Peg, 2011. Possible First Edition 4to size printed hardcover with dust jacket; 199 pages with single color illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers. Pagination starts on the right side. From jacket: "The Coffee Table Book of Doom is a handy way to keep you updated on all the ways you and everyone else might suddenly cease to exist. It's an invaluable guide, because who wants to die uninformed? Buy this book, take a deep breath and start reading... Who knows if you'll have enough time to finish." Bumped head and heel of spine, small tear to bottom of spine, abrasion on bottom of jacket spine and abrasion on front with adhesive residue where sticker was removed. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Appleby, Steven. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Milwaukee, WI: R. Riters Publishing, 1987. Signed (first name only) and inscribed inside front cover. 263 bright, white pages with minor wear to tips. Almost new! Humor. Northwestern University. Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. College Bred bookmark tucked inside! Some light foxing to top of book. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: The Laugh Club, 1932. Maroon cloth with black titles and decorations. 387 pages to this compilation which includes works by: Stephen Leacock; Robert Benchley; Corey Ford; Frank Sullivan; Ogden Nash; Donald Moffat; Donald Ogden Stewart; Will Cuppy; Finley Peter Dunne; Ring W. Lardner; Milt Gross; James Thurber and E.B. White; Dorothy Parker; S.J. Perelman; William Hazlitt Upson; Joseph Fulling Fishman; Marc Connelly; Ralph Bergengren; Walter D. Edmonds. Lightly sunned spine, dusty top and outside pages. Bookplate inside front cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Modern Library, 1919. Copyright 1917, but may be a later edition from the 1930s or 1940s. Jacket is faded on spine, with a large chip on top of spine. Some tears and chipping to jacket. Tear at back fold, spot on back. Price clipped dust jacket. Inside jacket is list of other modern library books. Red top slightly faded. Two previously folded page corners. 447 pages with lightly tanned page borders. Modern Library volume 162. From jacket: "For its humor and its seriousness of purpose (this book) is generally considered one of the highest achievements among all of Mark Twain's books. As satire, it deftly strikes its blows at the follies of two ages, and as passionate expression for justice and freedom, it is a work which offers ever-new rewards for the relective reader." Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long… Read More

Cohasset, Massachusetts: Hot House Press, 2002. 295 bright, white pages. Small wrinkle to back of dust jacket and several bumped pages at the back of book. Illustrated with black and white ads, illustrations and photographs. "Copywriter chronicles an advertising man's journey from Young Turk to scarred veteran - with pit stops and side trips along the way...Ray Welch mixes two parts outrageous humor with a healthy spalsh of self-deprecation." Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1941. Rare 1941 updated edition of the popular World War I humor book The author and illustrator were both veterans of World War I, 27th Division (New York.) 8vo size brown clothbound hardcover with darker brown titles on spine and cover. Front cover also has a small illustration; 119 deckle edged pages with some full page black and white illustrations. This volume has been updated with one introductory chapter with a letter from Bill to his son. Description: Who will ever forget "Dere Mable," the letters of that irrepressible, irresistible rookie Bill - who wrote of generals, captains, and sergeants with broad tolerance but obvious disfavor...and now (in this updated edition) Bill is (also) writing to his son, a draftee in the new Defense Army, with the same old spirit and sending him letters for guidance." Lightly sunned spine, bumped top corners, red mark on back cover and small pencilled marks inside front cover. Some page are creased -… Read More

Fantagraphics Books, 2006. Zippy the Pinhead Helps you recognize the 16 tell-tale signs 4to size softcover; 127 pages of black and white cartoons with a section of color cartoons. Includes Pindex. From cover: "Do you: Occasionally stop by the roadside to converse with large advertising statuary? Blurt out seemingly random opinions and phraseology? Become excitable in the presence of preserved bakery products? Believe all the celebrities you see on "Entertainment Tonight" are your close, personal friends?" Edgewear, bumped top of spine and back bottom corner of cover and pages. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Knopf, 1996. Stated First Edition 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 113 pages with full page black and white illustrations on almost every page. Also includes CD-ROM, still in sealed package! with all of the cartoons from the book. From jacket: "The 100 wonderfully witty cartoons in these pages immerse us in today's newest, funniest, cutting-edgiest way of life - the life of men and women in Computerland. Cartoonists include: Robert Mankoff Charles Barsotti Jack Ziegler Roz Chast Arnie Levin Foxing to top of book, very light wear to jacket. . First. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Spain: Editorial Lumen, 1992. From 1932 to 1992. Text is in Spanish 4to size trade paperback; 127 bright, white pages with black and white illustrations and a few photographs. Front cover has a circular cut-out through which the globe on the next page shows through. Stated First Edition De la página 7: Hola, me llamo Mafalda y y vivo en Buenos Aires. El dibujante Quino (es ese con anteojos del autorretrato que ven aqui) me ha dicho que tengo que contar algo de mi historia y tambien algo sobre mi familia y mis amiguitos. Yo he pansado que el mejor modo de hacerlo es empezando por la historia de Quino mismo, porque el no hubiera nacido yo ahora enterderme y enterderlo tambien a el, sera bueno que les cuente (a lost que lo saben todo, solo que les recuerde) en que mundo nacimos el y yo y como el mundo fue cambiando y cambiandonos a nosotros, que por rece ser que no logramos cambiar el mundo. From page 7: Hello, my name is Mafalda and I live in Buenos Aires. The cartoonist Quino (it's… Read More

Minocqua, Wisconsin: Willow Creek Press, 1995. Horizontal 8vo size trade paperback; 104 pages illustrated throughout with black and white cartoons. From back cover: "The world's funniest outdoor-sports cartoonist has embarked on this hilarious and hardly-helpful guidebook for campers. Packed with delightful misinformation and how-to tips. (this book) carries the authenticity of a guy who has 'been there.' " Edgewear, worn bottom corners, wear and crease to back cover, several creased page corners, and some tiny spots on last page and inside back cover. Front cover has a crease and inside front cover has an inscription. Dealer Direct Payment Only.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher, 1961. 8vo size clothbound hardcover; 352 pages Contents include: A Kid for Two Farthings Make Me an Offer The Mendelman Fire Shorts Stories including Expresso Bongo Plays: The Bespoke Overcoat & It Should Happen to a Dog Sunned and bumped head and heel of spine. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1917. It's still funny after all these years. Wear and tear to covers, name pencilled price on fep, some tanning to pages. Spot on bottom, Fictional Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged 11 shows the new preacher her family photograph album, drawings and text on opposite pages. There's even four pages for someone to draw in their own "fambly" members. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Wing, Frank. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Crown Archetype, 2014. Flat Signed on title page First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 340 pages with a few black and white photographs From jacket: "Have you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in your car so you wouldn't have to share with your children? Gotten hungry while watching a dog food commercial? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are pretty pathetic, but you are not alone..." Signed copy sticker on front of jacket. Edgewear to top of jacket and bumped top of jacket spine. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.