Fake Book
New York: Pretend-a-Press, 1999. Paperback. Inscribed by Keay + handwritten note laid in! Paperback, 1999, octavo, 215pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with rubbing and mild edgewear, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Humor
Our People... from the collection of "Mr. Punch"
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1881. Hardcover. 1881 Hardcover cloth 4to, 155pp. Replete with humorous sketches. Ex-library with sticker on cover and spine, bookplate on front pastedown, circulation pocket to rear pastedown. Otherwise about very good with rubbing wear to extremities, most especially to spine ends which suffer shallow loss. Contents.....
Stuff About Steeds, Famous Race Track Cartoon Characters
New York: Maywood Publishing, 1941. Hardcover. First edition, pictorial boards, very good in plain dust jacket, some offsetting or staining to rear endpapers otherwise very good and sharp, 110 pp, illustrated, jacket is plain paper with title written in blue ink on cover, some soil and light edgewear.
Maxims of La Rochefoucauld
Philadelphia: Haworth Press, 1931. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1931. Limited number 789 of 1075. Hardcover, 8vo. in patterned paper board with vellum spine, marbled endpapers. 175pp. Very good. Scuffing and soil to spine, boards. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Internally bright and unmarked. Housed in mylar.
Cultural Slag
London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. Hardcover. Purple cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has mild sun to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild toning to spine, rubbing and hint of edgewear, front flap price clipped at bottom...
Hot Stuff by Famous Funny Men, Comprising Wit, Humor, Pathos, Ridicule, Satires, Dialects, Puns, Conundrums, Riddles, Charades, Jokes and Magic, with The Philosophy of Wit and Humor
Chicago: George M. Hill, ca. 1910. later edition. Hardcover. ca. 1910. Later edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in tan pictorial cloth. 774pp. with frontis of contributors, illustrated. Good. Mottling to rear board, corners and spine ends blunted, front inner hinge stained but holding. Contents toned, otherwise clean and unmarked.
Symptoms of Being 35
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1921. Hardcover. Printed paper covered boards, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has toning to spine, mild wear to spine ends and corners, rubbing, binding tight, endpapers off-set, text clean and unmarked.
A Man's Home is his Hassle
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. octavo, green cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good condition, jacket shows edgewear, mostly at the spine, and mild toning, book shows moderate wear to boards and foxing to the text block, 126pp.
Pictures of Life and Character, Fourth Series, from the collection of Punch
London: Bradbury, Evans and Co., c. 1863. Hardcover. Fourth Series. No date, c. 1863. Hardcover, oblong folio. Bound in original 1/2 leather, with green boards. 96 pp. A Fair to Good copy. Heavy rubbing and discoloration/soil to the covers; sound binding; rubbing to leather, especially at corners and spine. Old.....
Being Done Good, An Amusing Account of a Rheumatic's Experiences with Doctors and Specialists who Promised to Do Him Good
Brooklyn: Brooklyn Eagle Press, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 1904. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in pictorial green cloth, without dust jacket. 345pp. frontis, illustrated. Very good. Slight lean, sunning to spine, edges scuffed, ownership signature to flyleaf. Internally unmarked. Housed in mylar.
Up-to-Date Stage Conundrums
Boston: Mutual Book Company, 1903. Hardcover. 1903. Edition not stated. Hardcover, 32 mo., unpaginated. Very good. Previous owner's signature and other pencil marks to front endpapers. Soiling to covers.
London Society, A Monthly Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume LV, January-June, 1889 (This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1889. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume LV, including January-June, 1889. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 gray cloth and marbled boards, leather titles. 668pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges and endpapers soiled.....
London Society, A Monthly Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume LX, July to December, 1891 (This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1891. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume LX, July to December, 1891. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 gray cloth and marbled boards, leather titles. 668pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges and endpapers.....
London Society, A Monthly Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume LIV, July to December, 1888 (This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1888. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume LIV, including July to December, 1888. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 gray cloth and marbled boards, leather titles. 668pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges and.....
London Society, A Monthly Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume LVI, July to December, 1889 (This Volume ONLY)
London: F. V. White, 1889. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume LVI, including July to December, 1889. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 gray cloth and marbled boards, leather titles. 664pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges.....
London Society, A Monthly Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume LIX, January to June, 1891(This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1891. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume LIX, including January to June, 1891. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 gray cloth and marbled boards, leather titles. 668pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges and.....
London Society, A Monthly Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume XLVI, July to December, 1884 (This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1884. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume XLVI, July to December, 1884. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 gray cloth and marbled boards, leather titles. 720pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges and endpapers.....
London Society, A Monthly Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume LXV, January to June, 1894 (This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1894. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume LXV, January to June, 1894. Hardcover, 8vo. in blue library cloth. 668pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges and endpapers soiled, boards rubbed. Contents unmarked.....
London Society, An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume I, February- June, 1862 (This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1862. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume I, February- June, 1862. Hardcover, 8vo. in purple cloth with gilt titles and decoration. 476pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with spine label, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Fair. Contents separated from.....
London Society, An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume L, July to December, 1886 (This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1886. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume L, July to December, 1886. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 gray cloth and marbled boards, leather titles. 620pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges and endpapers.....
London Society, An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume XLIX, January to June, 1886 (This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1886. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume XLIX, including January to June, 1886. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 gray cloth and marbled boards, leather titles. 620pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges and.....
London Society, An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume XLIII, January to June, 1883 (This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1883. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume XLIII, January to June, 1883. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 gray cloth and marbled boards, leather titles. 712pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges and endpapers.....
London Society, An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature For The Hours of Relaxation, Volume XLV, January to June, 1884 (This Volume ONLY)
London: London Society, 1884. Hardcover. This volume ONLY. Bound volume of London Society, monthly illustrated of poetry, literature, and humor, Volume XLV, January to June, 1884. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 gray cloth and marbled boards, leather titles. 716pp. illustrated. Ex-library, with plates, deaccession stamps, and other markings. Edges and endpapers.....
The Line Book (Linebook) of R.H.L, 1923-1935
Chicago: Richard Henry Little, 1923-1935. First edition. Paperback. 17 issues, with duplicates and additional volumes, of bespectacled Chicago Daily New columnist Richard Henry Little's humorous annual from his "Line o' Type or Two" column, 1923-1935. First edition. Most issues paperback, in colorful pictorial wraps by various artists- including one by.....
Intellectual Curiosity by Cubby (1948 Wellesley cartoon book)
(Wellesley): Privately Printed, 1948. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, stains to bottom inner corner of covers affecting the pages a little bit as well, light toning to pages. 48 unnumbered pages of cartoons that mainly appeared in the Wellesley College News, by a student. RARE, OCLC records a......