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
![Hardly Able Hook & Ladder [parade photograph]](/pictures/thumb/001162.jpg?v=1472082196)
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
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
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
![I'm a Daddy! [series of 5 comic cards]](/pictures/thumb/005487.JPG?v=1494620420)
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
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
New York: Mitchell & Miller, 1891. Gibson, Charles Dana. Hardcover. One bound volume containing Life, a magazine, vol. 18, numbers 449-473 and vol. 19 no. 474. approx. 220 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Half black calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; gilt-tooled title and volume number in second... More
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
New York: Wehman Brothers, 1882. Paperback. 50, 4, 6, [4], 60, [4] p.: music; 18 cm. White and blue wrapper with front wrapper illustration of a minstrel band and publisher's advertisement for Wehman Laugh League Books on back wrapper. Wrapper title. Contents: Bones, His Gags and Stump Speeches: Nigger and... More
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
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
![Stage: The Magazine of After-Dark Entertainment -- March 1938 vol. 15 no. 6 [Leopold Stokoswki]. Maxwell Anderson, Burgess Meredith.](/pictures/thumb/003673.JPG?v=1472082305)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Co. 1964. Hardcover. [10], 175 p.; 22 cm. Beige cloth with gilt and black spine title. Green endpapers. Dust jacket design by Martha Lehtola. Book club edition. Contents: Canadian Spring -- Walking: Its Cause, Duration and Effect -- The Peaceful Pursuit -- Confessions of... More
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1946. Hardcover. 63, [1] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Green cloth with black spine title and cover illustration. No dust jacket (as issued?). Inscribed on front fixed endpaper: "T.C. Tatman 1946." No date of publication. Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. was established in 1940; therefore, this... More