Portland, Me. Bailey & Noyes, 1860. Paperback. 16 p.: woodcut illustrations; 8.7 cm. White wrappers with cover title and illustration of Medusa; back cover illustrations of a windmill and an animal in a cage. Title vignette. Each page contains a riddle in verse with an illustration of the answer. Inscribed... More about The Book of Riddles
1895. 1 photograph 16 x 11 cm., mounted. Approx. 1895. Shows part of a parade of horse-drawn vehicles. Banner on center vehicle reads "Hardly Able Hook & Ladder We Save the Cellar"; the last word or words are blocked from sight. A comic float; the people on the vehicle are... More about Hardly Able Hook & Ladder [parade photograph
Netherlands: 1710. Paperback. 8 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A4 (4to). Possibly disbound from a larger volume. No publication information. Not in Worldcat or STCN; not in Knuttel. Intended as a continuation of J.M.G.V. Bouckart's satirical poem "Koning Lodewyk in de Griekse A tot Delft, op het Eyndigen der Campangje 1702"... More about Het Vervolg van Koning Lodewyk in de Griekse A. tot Delft, Op de Raadvraging van de Koning aan...
Philadelphia, Pa. John Ball, 1850. Hardcover. 284 p.: engraved frontispiece signed H. Corbould and Geo. N. Ellis; 13 cm. Light purple cloth with gilt-stamped spine title reading: Humourist's Own Book Book." Gilt-stamped spine decoration and front cover illustration. Back cover has identical blind-stamped illustration; both covers have blind-stamped decorative borders... More about The Humourist's Own Book: A Cabinet of Original and Selected Anecdotes, Bon Mots, Sports of...
New York: Sammis & Latham, 1882. Cards. 5 cards 11 x 7 cm. printed in black on a gilt background. The cards present a father as he learns his wife has given birth to not one, not two, not three, not four, but five babies. Sammis & Latham published a.... More about I'm a Daddy! [series of 5 comic cards
London, Eng. Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1887. Leech, John. Hardcover. [4], 276 p.: title vignettes, cartoons; 32 cm. Original red cloth with gilt-and-black-stamped spine and cover titles and illustrations; beveled edges. Small bookbinder's ticket on back fixed endpaper for Leighton Son and Hodge. All edges gilt. Black endpapers. Half title... More about John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character: From the Collection of "Mr. Punch"
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. Hardcover. 68 p., frontispiece and 7 leaves of plates (included in page count); 18 cm. Publisher's gray-green cloth with gilt-stamped cover title and publisher's emblem on front cover. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Dark green endpapers. Bound in at the front a sheet with... More about Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life (from Harpers Weekly); Illustrated by Hoppin
London, Eng. Bradbury and Evans, Printers, 1856. Hardcover. iv, 171-180, 213-224, 245-254, 31-258 p.: cartoons; 28 cm. Leather spine and corners with gilt-stamped spine title; marbled paper over boards. Contains both in-text and full-page cartoons by John Leech, Charles Keene, and others. Front fixed endpaper bears bookplate of the Historical... More about Punch Vol. XXXI -- May 3, May 31, June 21, July 26-Dec. 27 1856
New York: McSweeney's, 2000. 1 illustrated box containing 14 booklets, along with "Notes And Background, And Clarifying Charts And Some Complaining," and the Subscriber Agreement. Complete. Contents: A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen -- Symmes Hole by Paul Collins -- A Mown Lawn by Lydia Davis -- The Middle Tales... More about Timothy McSweeney's Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying (McSweeney's Number Four, Late Winter,...
London / New York: Macmillan & Co., 1886. Thomson, Hugh. Hardcover. [8], 82 p., frontispiece: many in-text illustrations; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover title, and cover illustration. All pages gilt. Dark brown endpapers. "Illustrated by Hugh Thomson" -- on cover and half title. Inscription partially obscured... More about Days with Sir Roger de Coverley: Reprint from the Spectator
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1876. Hardcover. Vol. 6 only: x, 678 p.; 19 cm. Publisher's red-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and publisher's emblem; black-stamped decoration on spine and front board; blind-stamped decoration on back board. Dark brown endpapers. Contains numbers of the Spectator from no. 253 to no... More about The Works of Joseph Addison, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Editon, with Letters and...
London: Jacob Tonson, 1741. Hardcover. "The Third Edition: With a Compleat Index." 4 volumes: frontispiece portrait of the author in vol. 1, 6 leaves of engravings of medals; 26 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with seven spine compartments between triple gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartments with gilt-tooled... More about The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq.; in Four Volumes
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New York: Stage Publishing Co., 1938. Paperback. 88 p.: illustrations; 33 cm. Color photograph on front cover of Beatrice Lillie in Doctor Rhythm. Contents include: Broadway and God by Clifton Fadiman -- From Organ Loft to Kleigs by Marcia Devenport [Leopold Stokoswki, part 1] -- Vitamins by Burgess Meredith --... More about Stage: The Magazine of After-Dark Entertainment -- March 1938 vol. 15 no. 6 [Leopold Stokoswki
London, Eng. Vernor and Hood, 1797. Hardcover. "A New Edition." Printed for the Associated Booksellers, Vernor and Hood, J. Cuthell, J. Walker, Lackington, Allen, and Co. and J. Nunn. viii, 175, [1] p.: 5 leaves of engraved plates; 16 cm. Half polished calf with marbled paper over boards. All page... More about The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-N-R-D Family In a Series of Peotical Epistles
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1892. Hardcover. vii, [1], 172 p.: full-page and in-text illustrations; 19 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; salmon cloth over boards with dark blue cover title and illustration. Dark brown endpapers. "The Illustrations are by Edward T. Reed; with others from 'Punch'."... More about Mr. Punch's Model Music-Hall Songs & Dramas collected, improved, and re-arranged from...
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New York: Bantam Books, 1953. Paperback. [8], 114, [6] p.; 18 cm. Paperback of play with illustrated cover featuring photographs of Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell from the movie based on the play. Bantam edition published July 1953. Bantam Books, 1371. In Very Good+ Condition: ends of spine slightly rubbed;... More about The Seven Year Itch: A Romantic Comedy [Marilyn Monroe
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1914. Hardcover. v, [1], 216, [1] p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece: facsimile; 18 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; blind-stamped decoration on front cover. First edition with appropriate publisher's code on verso of title page. Front free endpaper bears bookplate of George... More about The Marryers: A History Gathered From a Brief of the Honorable Socrates Potter by Irving...
Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1947. Hardcover. 160 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Orange cloth with orange-and-black spine title and cover illustration. No dust jacket. The entertaining history of the Los Angeles Farmers Market told by Fred Beck, who, with Roger Dahljelm, created that Los Angeles landmark in 1934. A copywriter... More about Second Carrot From the End by Fred Beck; Foreword by H. Allen Smith; Illustrations by Emax
Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1947. Hardcover. Blue Ribbon Books Reprint Edition by special arrangement with Harper & Brothers; copyright 1921 by Harper & Brothers. [6], 234 p.: illustrations; 20 cm. Dark blue cloth with black spine title and illustration. No dust jacket. Price sticker on back fixed endpaper from... More about Of All Things by Robert C. Benchley; with illustrations by Gluyas Williams
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. Paperback. A Fireside Book. 176 p.; 17 cm. Paperback. At head of front cover: "He's hard as rock, tough as nails, dense as concrete. He's Mac Slade, private dick." A tongue-in-cheek detective story. In Very Good Conditon: corners slightly rubbed; bottom page edges slightly... More about The Case of the Hardboiled Dicks: a Mac Slade Murder Mystery
Leipzig: George Wigand, 1895. Hardcover. [8], 46, [2] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title; red and black cover title and illustration. All page edge red. Decorated endpapers. Title page in red and black. Half title bears the red stamp of Institut Tilly, Berlin. No date of... More about Das Lustige Jena: Bilder aus dem Studentenleben; illustrirt von O. Gerlach
Chicago: T.S. Denison & Co., 1927. Sheet_music. 10, [2] p.: music; 31 cm. Front wrapper illustrated with drawings of people in blackface. Sheet music for piano and voices (soloist and chorus). Publisher's advertisement for opening choruses and finales for minstrels and musical comedies on back wrapper. "Theodore Presser Co." stamp... More about Denison's Laughing Minstrel Opening Chorus and Finale; words by Jeff Branen; music by Harry L....
Seattle: Seal Press, 1985. Paperback. 269, [3] p.; 22 cm. Paperback; cover illustration and design by Deborah Brown. Originally published in Norway as Egalias Dotre in 1977. Part of the publisher's Women in Translation series. Publisher's advertisement for other titles in the series follows text. Although her works had been... More about Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg; Translated from Norwegian by Louis...
London: G. Auld, 1786. Hardcover. Title page continued: "Dedicated, by permission of Momus, to the lovers of fun. Compiled by His Merriness's Secretary." xii, 348 p.; 18 cm. (12mo). Contemporary morocco spine with gilt-tooled spine title. Plain red paper over boards. Printed by G. Auld, for W. Cavell; J. Ridgeway;... More about The Cabinet of Momus, and Caledonian Humorist; Being a Collection of the Most Entertaining...
New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 291 p.; 24 cm. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated first edition. A humorous look at the computer industry. Made into a movie by the same name in 2002. In Fine/Fine Condition. More about The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novel