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: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. Louis D. Fancher. First Edition. Cloth and pictorial boards. 12mo (7 1/8" x 5"), green backstrip and pictorial boards depicting a Art Nouveau bearded old man / Methuselah, illustrated with frontispiece and three full-page plates and decorative pages by Louis D. Fancher, Introduction..... 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
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2013. B&W Photos. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. 8vo, gray boards with silver lettering on spine, illustratred with several B&W photos, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Billy Crystal by Robert Sebree, 272 pages + [2] About the Author. William "Billy" Crystal (born..... More
Cleveland New York: The World Publishing Company, 1956. Abner Dean. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, green quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over gold boards with leaf motifs, filled with amusing satiric poems and light-hearted cartoons by Abner, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped), endpapers repeat leaf motif..... More
New York Boston: 12 Twelve, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. INSCRIBED on the title page: "Be careful!! It's scary out there!", 8vo, red cloth with black lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected cartoon decorated dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton by Ross MacDonall, xxxi, [xxxii] + 432..... More
Boston and Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1963. James Stevenson. First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black quarter cloth with author's name in red and title in white on spine & cartoon of McL on cover; repeated on dust jacket (price-clipped), full of cartoon illustrations by James..... More
London Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin, N.D. B&W cartoons. Reprint. Pictorial cloth. Quarto (10" x 7 1/2" x 1 1/2"), brown pictorial cloth with blind-stamping & elaborate gilt on spine and front cover, illustrated with B&W "Christmas 'Parties'" frontispiece and 9 full-page images plus initials and many..... 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
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1859. Richard Doyle. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Square 12mo (7 1/4" x 5 3/4"), original publisher's decorative gilt-stamped cloth with elaborate gilt lettering with foliage on spine and an even more elaborate gilt vine-&-figure decoration circling the front cover, which also has an image..... More
Boston, Mass. John W. Luce and Company, 1905. Wallace Goldsmith. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo, green textured cloth with paper label on spine and colored paper paste-down on cover with a colored cartoon of a bald man with pen swirling the stars and planets, illustrated throughout with B&W cartoons by Wallace..... More
New Jersey: Michael Di Capua Books / Scholastic, 2010. Jules Feiffer. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. Large quarto (9 3/8" x 12 1/4"), glossy pictorial boards with white lettering on spine and image of a an ogre on front cover, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a man being held..... 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
New York, N.Y. Plume, 2018. Cartoons. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. SIGNED by the Four Feminists on the half title, 12mo (5" x 7"), black wrappers with white and red lettering, illustrated with several B&W cartoons, red verso's of wrappers with pizzas, ix, [x-xii] + 143 pages. Caitlin Kunkle, Brooke..... 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: Meredith Corporation, 2019. Fredrickson et al;. First Edition. Wrappers. Small quarto, green and red glossy wrappers, filled with cartoons and wit, ~ 100 pages. Who doesn't enjoy MAD magazine? EXCELLENT ILLUSTRATED COMPENDIUM of humorous pieces from the previous year(s)--mainly 2019--with some new fun stuff tossed in! 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. Early Reprint. 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
Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, Inc., 1974. Frank Page. Seventh Printing. Cloth. INSCRIBED by the comedic author on the front free endpaper, square 8vo, profusely illustrated with in-text B&W cartoons by Frank Page, light blue cloth with black lettering on spine and cartoon of a woman chasing a rabbit on..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, red quarter cloth with gilt lettering on spine over black boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Mo with mike in color before the White House (a Scotty..... 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
London: Everyman, N.D. The Everyman Wodehouse, First Printing REPRINT from First British Printing. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4"), light blue-gray cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) uncredited [cover art probably by Anderzej Klimowski], vertical yellow-striped endpapers, 319 pages ... Colophon. Sir..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First U.S. Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, beige quarter cloth with multi-colored spine & lettering over charcoal gray boards with scarlet "P.G. Wodehouse," mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with cartoon rabbits emerging from a magician's tophat, publisher's red topstain, 213 pages + [2] About..... More
Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, N.D. Anderzej Klimowski]. The Collector's Wodehouse, First Printing REPRINT from First British Printing. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4"), gray cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting in color a man raising his fist against..... More