New York: Dell Publishing, 1931-1932. First edition. The first 12 issues of this hugely popular depression-era humor magazine known for its parodies of advertising and publishing. An early precursor to Mad Magazine, it was "stuffed with parodies of national advertisements and consumer magazines and sprinkled liberally with topical and risque..... Item #71783 More
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. Very good or better with light wear..... 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
New York: H. R. Russell and Son, 1894. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST DANIEL BEARD on the dedication page, "To Dan Beard whose advice and friendship is of the greatest value to his friend C. D. Gibson, Dec. 1894." Beard was an illustrator, author, youth leader and social reformer..... Item #71535 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
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
New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1887 - 1888. First edition of each of the three issues of the humor and politics magazine. SEPTEMBER 7, 1887, VOL. XXII, NO. 548: "A Queer Flirtation" by C. J. Taylor on front; "The National Political Madhouse" by W. Kaulbach and Keppler at center; and..... Item #71864 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
(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
New York: Random House, (1965). First edition. Soft cover. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs William Claxton and with text by Southern. Journal of the making of the film based on the book of the same name by Waugh (Southern wrote the screenplay with Christopher Isherwood). 4to brightly colored paperwraps; unpaginated..... Item #50806 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: Seven Stories Press, (1999). First edition. SIGNED BY VONNEGUT with his traditional a**hole asterisk on first blank page. Collection of imagined interviews published, according to Vonnegut’s introduction, as a fundraiser for New York’s public radio station, WNYC, where these musings first appeared as 90-second on-air segments. Interviewees include..... Item #71749 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