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Chicago: Playboy Press, (1967). First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), viii & 407 pages. Publisher's black cloth lettered in yellow & silver on the spine & decorated in blind with the Playboy Rabbit logo on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket with art work by Arnold Roth. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with slight edge… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (1879). Sextodecimo (7" x 5.5"), 96 pages including 3 full page illustrations from engravings preceding text & 3 following. Publisher's dark red cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in black on the upper cover. Moderately soiled, spine browned, brief wear at corners, binding cracked following the last page of text (still secure), otherwise good or… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First edition, this copy signed in ink by Shulman at the ffep. Octavo (7.75" x 5.5"), 191 pages, with illustrations by Bill Crawford. Publisher's gray cloth lettered & decorated in plum on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Spine a bit cocked, offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, text modestly toned, otherwise very good in very… Read more about this item

New York: Bernard Geis Associates, distributed by Random House, (1959). First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), xiii & 204 pages. Publisher's decorated dark gray paper over boards backed in white & gilt lettered green cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Trace of wear at spine extremities, slight foxing affecting early & late leaves, otherwise near fine in very good or better… Read more about this item

New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1858. Complete in two volumes. Small quartos (10" x 7"), xii, [6], & 1136 pages (continuously paginated), volume I with extra engraved title page, the set "Embellished with 24 Portraits on Steel and hundreds of wood engravings." Publisher's one-half black pebbled morocco & marbled paper over bevel edged boards, the spines in… Read more about this item

New York: Wehman Bros., "Handy Series, No. 52," 1920. 32mo (5" x 4"), 58 pages plus 6 unnumbered pages of illustrated advertisements. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps. Back cover closely trimmed at the bottom edge, text toned, otherwise Very Good.

Miami, Florida: The Morton Company, 1940. Pictorial card stock measuring 5.5 inches by 7 inches folded once vertically as issued. The left side presents "greetings" with a manuscript pencil message & the printed ditty supplied above. The right side features "South Sea Lula," three celluloid pages stapled to the inside of the rear cover, when raised one by one, reveal… Read more about this item

Ft. Ord, California, December, 1990. First edition. Original mini comic measuring 11 inches by 7 inches, two illustrated sheets folded & stapled forming 8 pages. Slightly wrinkled, lightly toned, staples rusted, otherwise Very Good. An amusing comic book published just before the aerial and naval bombardment on 17 January 1991 led by the United States in response to Saddam Hussein's invasion… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, (1940) First American edition 8vo, 278 pp., with illustrations by Robert S Robinson. Publisher's red cloth lettered & decorated in white, in pictorial dust jacket. White lettering at spine partially rubbed away, brief edge wear, endpapers & pastedowns browned from binding glue, otherwise good or better in moderately soiled dust jacket with edge wear… Read more about this item

No place, no publisher, no date (ca. 1946). Original camera-ready political cartoon by Bishop. Pencil, pen & ink on thick paper measuring 12 inches by 10 inches, verso blank, signed lower right. Lightly toned, small tear in the top margin (not affecting illustration), slight edge wear, pinhole lower left margin, otherwise Very Good or better. Quite possibly the work of Daniel Bishop,… Read more about this item

New York: GP Putnam's Sons, (1983) First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink by Burns on the half-title page. 8vo, 187, [2] pp, including numerous illustrations from photographs. Publisher's grey paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered black cloth-patterned paper, in pictorial dust jacket "Al Hirschfeld Foundation" rubber-stamped on the half-title page, otherwise fine in very good dust jacket;… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Co, (1968) First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink in the year of publication to Cartha DeLoach. 8vo, xv, 238 pp. Publisher's gilt-lettered gray cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Upper margins slightly sunned, otherwise fine in very good, spine faded dust jacket The author was an eight term congressman from Arkansas This copy… Read more about this item

Franklin, Ohio & Denver, Colorado: Eldridge Entertainment House, 1927. First edition. 12mo, 41 & [3] pages. Original pictorial stapled paper wraps. Covers almost detached, tape repairs securing front & back wraps, edge wear including small losses & tears, soiled, about Good & still quite serviceable. Provides instructions for staging a carnival & a series of comedy sketches & stunts… Read more about this item