Search Results: Humor from abookshop

Long Island: Bohemian Magazines, 1926. Bound in sepia colored wraps. This is the "Prohibition Number". 48 pp. Lots of articles on the Prohbition. Cheesecake photos, jokes, humor, cartoons. Cover holding on "barely", but still intact. Contents VG+. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good +/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Bound in black quarter buckram and decorated black & white paper boards, sans DW; some wear to board ends; illustrated in black & white by Ralph Barton; 248pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket. Illus. by BARTON, Ralph.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. Bound in tan cloth stamped in black with a great Charles Addams illustration of a guy shooting pool with the 8-ball displayed. In pink, gray and white dust jacket that has been reinforced (a long time ago) by a previous owner. Warmly Inscribed and Signed by Mr. De Vries on the front endpaper to a fellow New Yorker employee in 1985. Dustjacket maintains that original $2.50 price. 297 pp. Previous owner's neat bookplate to front pastedown (behind d.w. flap). Great illustrations by Charles Addams. . Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good. Illus. by Charles Addams.

NY: A.S. Barnes, 1952. Bound in illustrated thick glossy boards, in matching dust jacket. A humorous book of cartoons on baseball with contributions by Mel Allen and Tom Meany. 44 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +.

NY: Random House, 1977. Has red remainder stripe along bottom edge. Published by Random House. 1st printing.; 112pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Henry Holt, 1986. "First American Edition"; Illus. with black and white plates; 159pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Philadelphia: Winston, 1959. Bound in yellow cloth, stamped in black with illustrated dust jacket with the aurhot and Jack Paar on the front panel. Early Television humor. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front end paper. Offsetting to endsheets. 64 pp. . Inscribed and Signed By Author. Sixth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good +.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1951. Boundi in orange cloth, stamped in black. This is an early reprint of this now classic book of golfing short stories. In a nice dust jacket (price of 5' present) that shows a bit of scuffing to extremes. The fourteenth prniting. 256 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good +.

LONDON: Secker & Warburg, 1964. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding; 448pp. Best selling novel of the era. . First British Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/VG+.

George H. Doran Company, 1912. Bound in quarter brown buckrum and decorated worn brown paper boards, sans DW; back hinge loose; previous owners book plate on front paste down; illustrated in black & white; 141pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket. Illus. by NEWELL, Peter.

Chicago: Collegiate Reporter, 1933. Magazine is in unbelievable condition with just a hint of darkening to bottom of rear panel, but no chips or scraping at all. Articles by Grantland Rice, Lowell Thomas, et al. 64 pp. Tight, clean copy. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Trite Expectations, Inc., 1980. Summer, 1980 issue; Vol.1, No. 1; Sid Caesar interview; articles on Buster Keaton, "The Gong Show", Jim Backus, Howard the Duck, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, and much more.; black & white photos and illustrations; 64pp.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957. 60 short stories; previous owners inscription on 2nd fep.; rear bottom corner bumped; 676pp.. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG++/VG+.

New York: St Martin's Griffin, 2003. Bound in stiff wraps; illustrated in black & white; 228pp.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Italy: Harlin Quist, 1972. Bound in black cloth, stamped in white in 1970's art styled multi-color dust jacket. 32 pp. Tight, clean copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good ++. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

NY: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2004. Tight, clean copy of the first edition of this 239 pp. book of humor from McSweeney's. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Aperture, 2001. Illustrated in color and black & white; 213pp. A tight, clean copy in bright dust jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. Black & white photos; 220pp. A tight, clean copy in bright dust jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co., 1960. "Here is a delightful hour of fun, with the joy of the sly phrase and the well-turned pun. And animals the like of which you've never seen, turn up to brighten every scene!"; from A to Z; illustrated in black & white; 39pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/VG+. Illus. by ATENE, Ann.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Character drawings from the film "Dick Deadeye or Duty Done"; Based on the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan; 72pp. Some wear to edges of dustwrapper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+.