New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. Gluyas Williams. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth with pale green (?) printed label and cartoon of the author in white on lower right corner of front cover, Introduction by Frank Sullivan, Mylar-protected pictorial yellow dust jacket (unclipped) with cartoon of Benchley twirling... More
New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. First Edition. Cloth. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED by the AUTHOR, 12mo (7 3/8" x 5 1/2"), green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering & publisher's calligraphed "AS&Co" device on spine, 213 pages. RARE & INSCRIBED by the 19th century American humorist. Slightly cocked; cloth somewhat... More
Orlando Austin New York San Diego Toronto London: Harcourt, Inc., 2003. Brad Weinman. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. SIGNED "Best Wishes" by the Author, 8vo, pictorial full-color boards depicting Chet Gecko & Falcon, handsomely illustrated with B&W frontispiece and several in-text drawings by Brad Weinman, 107 pages + [8]... More
New York: Lincoln McVeagh / The Dial Press, 1929. Rea Irvin. Fourth Printing. Cloth. Small 8vo, orange cloth with black lettering on spine & front cover with B&W Alice confronting portly Uncle Sam on the front cover, frontispiece and 11 B&W full page illustrations by Rea Irvin, orange endpapers, 303... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. Walt Kelly. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Small 4to (9 3/4" x 6 1/2"), mainly green pictorial wrappers with black-white-&-yellow designs and lettering, profusely illustrated with cartoons by Walt Kelly, cartoon endpapers, [90] cartoon pages + [91] Eenie Finis + [2] Afterword. Walter... More
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1943. Edward Lear. Reprint. Cloth. Thick 8vo, green textured boards with black lettering on spine, Mylar-protected light red dust jacket with cartoon figures by Lear in white, 480 pages. SUPERIOR CONDITION internally and externally. Previous owner's inscription on free front endpaper. Edward Lear... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1904. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Small 8vo, red cloth with gilt embossed spine and cover depicting John Bull presumably as The Mad Hatter seated and chained to a prison wall, illustrated by F. Carruthers Gould {"F.C.G.") with 46 caricatures blended into the original Tenniel... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. Ogden Nash. First Edition. Wrappers. 12mo, pictorial wrappers, illustrated with New Yorker cartoons by Otto Soglow and music by Robert Armbruster, 12 pages. VERY SCARCE & Fragile but an amusing sequence by the inimitable and amusing Ogden Nash. Frederic Ogden Nash (1902–1971) was a prolific... More
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Isadore Seltzer. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Small 8vo, beige cloth with brown spine lettering and embossed images on the front cover of the husband vs. wife fighting over the pants motif used on the pictorial dust jacket, illustrated by Isadore Seltzer... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1969. Punch. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, half black cloth with gold lettering on spine over red boards, numerous B&W illustrations from Punch magazine, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), yellow endpapers, 179 numbered pages + [2] About the Authors. A humor classic... More
New York Boston: J. C. Derby / Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Small 8vo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4"), gilt-stamped spine with vignette of Mrs. Partington and blind-stamped decorative brown covers, engraved frontispiece & 7 full-page steel engravings (with tissue guards) and numerous in-text... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, tan cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket with cartoon of H. Allen Smith, xviii + [ii} + 296 pages + [2] Note on Type. Humorist Fred Allen described journalist-and-humorist H. Allen Smith as "the screwball's 'Boswell.'" A.... More
Garden City, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1943. James Thurber. First Thus Collected. Pictorial boards. Quarto [4to: 10 1/4" x 7 3/4"], black & orange pictorial boards with Thurber's creatures, profusely illustrated with droll B&W cartoons drawn by Thurber for The New Yorker, viii + 124 pages. James Thurber (1894... More
London: Herbert Jenkins, [c.1940s]. Reprint Edition. Cardboard covers. Small 8vo, red cloth with "A Gentleman of Leisure" in black type on the cover and spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket with Jimmy Pitt on his knees facing a bulldog, 256 pages. VERY SCARCE in this VG+ condition and with the RARE... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, red cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket with cartoon figures, 222 pages. Sir P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse KBE (1881 – 1975) was an English author who was one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century... More
New York: A Continuum Book / The Seabury Press, 1979. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, bright blue cloth, Mylar-protected cartoon-filled dust jacket, xvii + 205 pages. Sir P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse KBE (1881 – 1975) was an English author who was one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century... More