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New York, NY: National Lampoon. Very Good+. 1971. Magazine. Cover Art; This is a larger than trade sized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is a tiny nick to the bottom spine end of the magazine cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The contents include: The Case of the Loquacious Rapist by Tim Mayer and Michael Sullivan, Groin Larceny by Chris Miller, Riders of the Black Hand by Michel Choquette, The Big Recall by Henry Beard, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy by Edward Gorey, The Thoughts of Chairman Fu-Manchu by Henry Beard, Dick Tracy by H. B. Nichols, The Last sMile, 74 by Rodrigues, Angela and Rocky Take You on a Tour of the Big House by George W. S. Trow. .

Fresno, CA: Grace M. Parks / Williams & Sons Printers. Very Good+. 1939. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This is a trade sized paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The author, Grace Q. Parks takes a humorous look at how to request a bathroom when travelling through foreign lands. ; Signed by Author .

Chicago, IL: Henry Holt and Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1943. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good second state dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a light slant to the spine of the book and some very beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. All edges of the text block have noticeable foxing. The dust jacket is clean and bright but does have a couple of small spots of discoloration and some light toning to the rear panel along with one small semi-closed tear to the bottom front spine joint. The dust jacket rear cover has five blurbs, with is the designation for the second states DJ. "By the late 1920s, Johnson was art editor at several McGraw-Hill trade publications. With the Great Depression, Johnson became politicized and turned leftward, joining the radical Book and Magazine Writers Union. In… Read More

New York: Andrews McMeel Publishing. Near Fine. 2008. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0740777408 . Color Illustrations; This is a small format book with heavy cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "Piraro describes himself as "liberal and progressive politically" and identifies as an atheist. This being apparent in his work has garnered occasional complaints, as in 2005 when he offered newspapers a politics-free version of a comic supporting gay rights. A glitch however meant that papers printing in color received the political version while those in black and white received its tamer counterpart. In 2002, Piraro became a vegan. His activism is visible in Bizarro, often incorporating vegan and animal cruelty themes into his cartoons. In an interview, he stated, "If you look at my strip over the years,… Read More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1960. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized hardback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends, and the spine has some light toning / fading, especially to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, small bumps and several small chips missing, along with several edge tears. " Charles Addams joined the layout department of True Detective magazine in 1933, where he retouched photos of corpses to remove the blood for appearance alongside magazine stories. Addams complained: "A lot of those corpses were more interesting the way they were." His first drawing for The New Yorker, a sketch of a window washer, ran February 6, 1932, and his cartoons ran regularly in the magazine from… Read More

New York, NY: Viking Press. Very Good. 1931. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a small format book (approx. 5" x 6.5") . The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and fading. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, however there are several spots of foxing to the bottom edges of some pages. .

New York: Signet / New American Library. Very Good. 1969. 8th Printing. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. There is one small nick to the top front panel of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Bored of the Rings is a 1969 parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. This short novel was written by Henry Beard and Douglas Kenney, who later founded National Lampoon. It was published in 1969 by Signet for the Harvard Lampoon. In 2013, an audio version was produced by Orion Audiobooks, narrated by Rupert Degas. " (from Wikipedia) .

Los Angeles, CA: Hollywood House. Good. 1947. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This booklet is in Good only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This copy is a staplebound booklet with cardstock covers. The booklet covers have some generalized ground-in dirt and finger markings. The spine of the booklet has tearing, starting from both ends of the spine. The text pages are clean and bright with some beginning toning to the edges of the text pages. There is a very small tear to the foredge of the title page and a previous owner's inked name and address at the top corner of the title page (this copy possibly owned by recognized Hawaiian architect - Frank Haynes). Unfortunately, little information is available regarding the the author / illustrator of this fun look at bowling. "If there ever is a place where a man's big, bare personality hangs out clear down to his number nines, it's in a bowling alley. When he turns around after… Read More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall / Stuart L. Daniels. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0131102133 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small semi-closed tears and associated wrinkling. The spine of the dust jacket has fading and there is some generalized ground-in dirt as well. "Eric Gurney (1910–1992) was a Canadian-American cartoonist and illustrator. He emigrated to the USA in 1938 to work with The Walt Disney Company, where he was a story writer and a collaborator on several classic Disney films. Turning freelance in 1948, he did cartoon illustrations for magazines and advertising campaigns. Gurney is well known for his humorous illustrations in books… Read More

New York, NY: William Morrow. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1964. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small semi-closed tears to the edges of the book covers, along with a couple of nicks to the corners. .

New York, NY: Bernard Geis Associates. Very Good. 1966. 4th Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping, rubbing, and wear to the spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. .

New York, NY: Hallmark Cards, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color and B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but again has some light rubbing and beginning wear to the spine ends and the corners. .

New York, NY: Coward - McCann, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription, on the front endpaper. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light nicking, rubbing and edge wear. The spine and spine joints of the dust jacket has some light sunning / fading. "Delaplane's career as a journalist began as a writer for Apéritif Magazine from 1933 to 1936, when he joined the San Francisco Chronicle as a reporter He won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1942 for a depiction of the State of Jefferson, a state that residents of far northern California and southern Oregon proposed semi-seriously in order to publicize their grievances. He also won National Headliner Awards in 1946 and 1959.… Read More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. This is a stated First Edition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a very slight slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some very beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends, corners, and edges of the book covers. .

New York, NY: Pocket. Very Good. 1976. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. 0671804081 . This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are generally clean and bright, but there is generalized toning. .

New York: Clarkson N. Potter Inc.. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1961. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but does have some light rubbing to the spine and flap joints, some light bumping to the spine ends, and a couple of tiny tears to the to spine end. "Robert Chesley Osborn (1904–1994) was an American satiric cartoonist, illustrator and author...Osborn characterized himself as "a drawer" whose figures "seemed to come right out of my subconscious." Garry Trudeau called him "one of the very few masters of illustrative cartooning." Robert Motherwell wrote that his drawings were "so alive that they seemed to writhe on the page with an… Read More

New York: Ace Books. Very Good. 1979. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; First printing thus, with full number line on the copyright page. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners.. The book covers have some generalized toning, especially to the edges. There is a small chip to the bottom front corner of the book cover. There are spots of rubbing and wear to the covers as well. The text pages are clean and bright. "Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin). It was directed by Jones. The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman) , a young Jewish-Roman man who is born on the same day as—and next door… Read More

New York, NY: National Lampoon, Inc.. Very Good+. 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. ALL of the pages are intact. This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The book covers have some light rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. This is a book of iron-ons (for tee shirts) "National Lampoon was an American humor magazine that ran from 1970 to 1998. The magazine started out as a spinoff from the Harvard Lampoon. National Lampoon magazine reached its height of popularity and critical acclaim during the 1970s, when it had a far-reaching effect on American humor and comedy. The magazine spawned films, radio, live theatre, various sound recordings, and print products including books. Many members of the creative staff from the magazine subsequently went on to contribute creatively to successful media of all types. " (from Wikipedia) .

New York, NY: National Lampoon. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. This is a larger than trade sized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. The contents include: Pamplemousse by Brioan McConnachie, Beachcomber Jerry's Down-Home Shangri-La Restaurants by Henry Beard, The Miracle of California b y Tony Hendra, Doug Kenney, Michael Elias, and Robert Garland, Sway Song of the Open Road by Sean Kelly, My Blue Heaven by Anne Beatts, Last Impressions are the Most Important by Commander Barkfeather and Doris O. Perception, Stranger in Paradise by Michel Choquette, The Runaway by R. O. Blechman, The Adventures of a Connecticut Yankee by Sean Kelly and Michel Choquette, Four Ways to Avoid Unpleasantness by George Trow, . .

London, England: Punch Publications Limited. Very Good. 1967. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is some generalized very light toning. Included are: Basil, Boothroyd, Any Complaints? , H. F. Ellis, Todays Resignations, Robert Robinson, Tory Shindig, Alan Coren, Ten Gree Diplomats Hanging on the Wall, Patrick Ryan, ROudn BRitain with Gun and Camera, Peter Dickinson, Mercenary's Song (verse) , and more. .