Search Results: Humor from Charles Agvent

New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., (1878). First Edition. Original pictorial wraps. Slight wear. Near Fine and scarce thus. Publisher's printed orange wraps. BAL 3378: First Printing with all points. Housed in a cloth chemise and matching slipcase with leather label. Leather bookplate on verso of the front wrap.

Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, [1878]. First British Edition. stiff wraps. Slight offsetting to inscription caused by old newspaper clipping pasted to inner cover. Occasional soiling and wear. Very Good and scarce. Bound in original stiff green wraps rebacked with cloth retaining most of the original spine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front free endpaper "To Rev. R. Eden, With the author's kindest regards. Mark Twain Sept. 5/78." According to BAL 3378, this edition was published in May 1878. In a 1936 sale held by the American Art Association, a copy of Clemens's Scrap Book inscribed to the Reverend Robert Eden in Sept. 1878 was sold. The Union Catalog of Clemens Letters makes no other mention of Eden.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1919). First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to the corners and the tips of the spine which is sunned. Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper. Nate Collier. Decorated green and white boards lettered in black. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Rogers. The great American humorist's take on Prohibition. SIGNED "Will Rogers" with the notation "Sincerely yours" by the author on the front endpaper. Rogers was born in Indian Territory in 1879 and had some Native American blood in his veins. He began in vaudeville and moved on to motion pictures, a career that was cut short when he died in a small plane crash in 1935 near Point Barrow, Alaska. Perhaps he was best known, however, for his syndicated newspaper column which had such a massive following that the proposition that he run for President was once seriously advanced. His saying, "All I know is what I read in the newspapers," became a popular catchword of the times. Books signed or inscribed by this most popular of American… Read More

(1891). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine box with a small stain at the top of the spine. A. B. Frost. Oblong Folio (12" x 10-1/2") bound in modern full rust-colored morocco leather with gilt rules to the covers and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, housed in a clamshell box with gilt-lettered morocco spine. A collection of 18 ORIGINAL INK-AND-PENCIL DRAWINGS, 2 SIGNED and dated '91 by Frost, to illustrate the story as published along with the published pages reproducing the drawings. In addition to the published drawings, there are a few related images or alternate versions not used. All are mounted behind glassine covers, with the largest drawing measuring 8" x 10" and most 6-3/4" x 5-1/2." We have been unable to identify the publication where this series appeared. It concerns Mr. Pippy, a still life painter with doubts about his work, who asks Prof. Slinger to criticize his painting. Prof. Slinger proceeds to completely repaint the picture as the horrified Mr. Pippy… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustwrapper soiled with stain and scorch mark on spine. Very Good in a Good dustwrapper. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with 51 tipped-in caricature plates.

Kirkwood, MO, 26 Oct. 1977. Creases from folding o/w Near Fine in original envelope. 1 pages. In full: "In recognition of your outstanding contribution to the Modern Stage, you have been unanimously elected in succession to the late Katharine Cornell, Honorary Member/The Mark Twain Society."

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front endpaper; slightest bit of rubbing to spine ends and bottom edge, otherwise an unusually tight, bright copy. Fine. Publisher's decorated rust brown cloth. With all first printing points described in BAL 3442. Profusely illustrated in the margins. Notable of course for its very early use of fingerprints in fiction to solve a crime, but also one of Twain's most philosophical works and a strong comment on a society that permits slavery.

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint rubbing to rear. Fine, tight copy and uncommon thus. Publisher's decorated rust brown cloth. With all first printing points described in BAL 3442. Profusely illustrated in the margins. Notable of course for its very early use of fingerprints in fiction to solve a crime, but also one of Twain's most philosophical works and a strong comment on a society that permits slavery.