London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Number 188 of 520 numbered copies. Fifty-two hand-colored plates, being "Comic Designs to Popular Ballads by The Three Cruikshanks" and numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text. Quarto gilt-stamped dark blue cloth; top edge gilt, rest untrimmed. Spine ends and corners nicked and rubbed..... Item #54565 More
Charles Addams. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. First edition. A proof copy bound in pictorial wraps with the illustration from the eventual trade edition dust jacket. "With the compliments of Houghton Mifflin Company" slip laid in. Spine slightly cocked and front hinge just beginning to split, otherwise very good or better..... Item #40075 More
London: Neville Spearman, (1956). First UK edition. First published in Paris by Olympia Press in 1955 and subsequently banned in the U.S. and Ireland as obscene. His first book, a novel concerning the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American living in Dublin with his English wife and infant daughter..... Item #54202 More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1884. First U.S edition. Cartoons and captions from "Punch Magazine" by George du Maurier, novelist and social commentator. The Punch website calls his work "a treasure trove of detailed Victorian fashions and drawing rooms, tastes, ettiquette and foibles" and "particularly good at revealing the..... Item #51643 More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1837. Scarce second edition. Very good with original cloth cover somewhat soiled and rubbed. Label on spine chipped badly. Hinge cracked in the front and previous owner's name on endpaper (appears to be contemporaneous). Pages foxed. Item #51683 More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1952). First edition. Spine ends and tips slightly rubbed, otherwise fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with a few spots of foxing, nicked tips and a few closed edge tears, with tape repair on verso. Still, a bright copy of this "wonderful blend of..... Item #35764 More
New York: George H. Doran, (1922). First edition. "A mirror of frivolity," with short essays on "Leisure Class," "Bolshevism for Babies," the "Low Cost of Cabbing," "Are Cats People?," "Mr. Chesterton and the Soliloquy," etc. Normal offset line on endpapers, otherwise fine in dust jacket with minor chipping and one..... Item #41265 More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1933. First edition. Early proof. Very good in plain wraps with pictorial dust jacket attached at spine, as issued. Spine is somewhat sloped and dust jacket is lightly soiled, with some rubbing and closed tears along the edges. EARLY PROOF COPY. Item #51653 More
Charles E. Brock. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First trade edition, following a limited, large paper issue. Preface by Alfred Ainger and 130 illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Green cloth boards decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front and spine, all edges gilt. Boards visible at corners and few..... Item #52646 More
New York: Vintage Books, (1994). First Vintage books edition. INSCRIBED, "May you laugh your way back to good health." Near fine in glossy, pictorial paperwraps. Item #51665 More
New York: Atheneum, 1972. First edition. INSCRIBED BY JENKINS on half-title page. "To Larry - Laughs, love and peace - Dan." Thin strip of fading at base of spine otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket. Item #55081 More
Gregor McGregor. Dundee and London: Valentine & Sons, Limited, 1926. First edition (so stated). Scottish jokes and tales by "Junior" illustrated by McGregor. Gilt-stamped brown card covers and tartan dust jacket with pasted label. Near fine book in good dust jacket chipped along edges. Scarce in dust jacket. Item #52471 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1921). First edition. Frontispiece illustration by May Wilson Preston. Lardner's satire of big city life.Spine ends a little rubbed and worn otherwise near fine lacking the rare dust jacket. Scarce. Item #55907 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1921). First edition. Illustrated with silhouettes by Helen E. Jacoby. Charming little book that still rings true. Pictorial paper-covered boards somewhat soiled with spine darkened and rubbed, endpapers unavoidably darkened, prelims lightly foxed, and bookplate on pastedown. Altogether good or better, lacking dust jacket. Item #55142 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1918). First edition, only printing. Variant binding and jacket, neither of which are described in Bruccoli-Layman [A6]. 8vo light bluish gray boards stamped in white; in dust jacket priced $1.25 with "LAUGH WITH LARDNER" on front in red and rest of text in black, as called for..... Item #55995 More
(Gaithersburg, MD: Alice McKay, 1980). First edition, self-published. SIGNED "complimentary copy from Alice McKay." According to the foreword, this is "women's humor in a mini-book....a fresh literary genre in an innovative literary form." Fine in bright yellow paperwraps. Item #50451 More
(London): Perpetua, (1958). First UK edition. Gift inscription to front endpaper, spine ends and corners a little bumped and rubbed, bookseller stamp to rear blank, otherwise very good to near fine in price-clipped dust jacket with a few scuffs and spine ends and corners lightly chipped and rubbed. Item #27702 More
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, (1983). First American edition, printed in Great Britain. Large book, measuring 9 x 12"; near fine in whimsical pictorial dust jacket with small tear and resultant creasing to white portion of front panel (otherwise fine). Item #49751 More
Cleveland: Bits Press, (1986). First edition. The Essential Shakespeare, Volume I. "Rapid retrieval editions in rhymed hemimeter." Near fine in white, printed paperwraps, bound with string, showing only light tanning along the spine and a bump mark along the bottom edge. THE ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE. Item #51293 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co, Inc., 1946. First edition. "Three Best Sellers in One Volume by an Outstanding American Humorist"--from the dust jacket. Collects his first three books: LOW MAN ON A TOTEM POLE, LIFE IN A PUTTY KNIFE FACTORY and LOST IN THE HORSE LATITUDES. Near fine in like..... Item #54488 More
Louis A. Roberts. Springfield, Mass. D. E. Fisk and Company, (1873). First edition. Illustrations by Louis A. Roberts. Escapades in the "eventful life of a traveling book agent." From a small bookseller's ad affixed to rear endpaper: "The humourous observations and adventures of an itinerant book salesman. Encounters with patent..... Item #50496 More
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. First edition. An answer in verse to the mocking of the rich in the (then) recently published satirical poem, "Nothing to Wear," pointing out the generousity and charity of many in the upper classes. 16mo brown cloth boards elaborately blind stamped on covers and..... Item #38174 More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. First edition. About fine in like dust jacket with barest wear. A bright copy. Item #54468 More
New York: Random House, (1965). First edition. Soft cover. Movie based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh. Illustrated with pictures by William Claxton throughout. Very good or better. Some creasing and rubbing to the spine but otherwise shows minimal wear. Item #50806 More
New York: Macmillan Co., 1935. First U.S. edition. This copy was definitely printed with U.S. sheets as the copyright page states it was printed in the U.S., but it doesn't match bibliographer McIlvaine's description [A12d1]. We therefore assume it is an unrecorded variant--at least in our experience--of the first U.S...... Item #27333 More