Forth Worth TX: SRI, 1967. First printing. Paperback. Wraps, 8.5 x 3.5 inches, very good, light wear and fading to covers. 73 pp. Snide, risqué and funny definitions, rather like Ambrose Bierce, Samuel Johnson mixed with Abby Hoffman. Gynecologist: Spreader of old wives' tales. Montana: where men are men and.....
London: Published at the Punch Office, 1846. First printing. Hardcover. First separate edition, sometimes referred to as first one-volume edition, too, 1846, small 8vo, bound in crushed black calf with handsome gilt spine, dark red labels, upper board has the original cloth cover mounted with a gilt rule, very good.....
New York: Bramhall House, 1959. Hardcover. Hardcover with gilt stamped blue cloth boards in dust jacket, 1959, octavo, 221pp., illustrated in color. Book fine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked with some general toning throughout. DJ VG with edgewear that includes a few small closed tears and their related creases.....
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London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe / Cadell and Davies, 1807-1807. Hardcover. Bound volume of two works, in handsome early calf, very good, light wear and minor crease marks along spine, bookplate and signature of R. B. Podmore -- he was a vicar in the town of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, also.....
London: J. Dodsley / G. Wilkie & J. Robinson / James Cawthorn, 1788, 1808, 1811. Hardcover. In mid-19th century half light brown calf and marbled boards, gilt titled on spine, very good, light rubbing and wear to binding. Bookplate of Thomas Fuller and his signature on the Anstey title page.....
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1999. Later printing. Paperback. 1999 Softcover, in Fine condition, showing the very lightest shelf wear.
New York: J. W. Bouton, 1884. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1884. Cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine, illustrated, 454 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, a bit of a musty aroma to the book, some soiling or age-toning to the pages and page-edges, minor rubbing or.....
New York: Mother Goose, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. 12mo, 6.75 x 4.25 inches, yellow boards in plain glassine dust jacket, book very good, light wear and soil, jacket good with some yellowing, small chips and tears. Uncommon in dust jacket, the usual rhymes with certain words redacted making for a......
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo, deep maroon cloth gilt, about very good, some light wear to binding, hinges tight, contents good with some foxing throughout. Light musty odor. Humorous accounts of American life, some in the south and some featuring African-Americans. 290 pp, illus.
London: William Heinemann, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 1925. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in orange cloth, without dust jacket. Color frontis and 51 plates of Beerbohm's literary and political caricatures. Very good. Lacks dust jacket. Soil and finger smudging to boards. Plate of former owner to pastedown. Contents clean and unmarked.....
London: William Heinemann, 1922. Hardcover. Gilt stamped blue cloth boards, octavo, illustrated with tipped in color plates. Book has wear to spine ends and corners, rubbing and mild soil, binding tight, endpapers off-set, text clean and unmarked.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. Hardcover. Hardcover with cloth backed boards, 1921, quarto, unpaginated, illustrated with 51 tipped in plates. Book VG with rubbing and edgewear to boards and spine, gilt title on spine worn off, binding tender, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and.....
London: John Lane, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 1914. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in pictorial cloth. 70pp. illustrated by George Sheringham. Very good. Boards rubbed and soiled, endpapers and margins foxed, else contents unmarked.
London: Macmillan, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 1972. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 258pp. with illustrations. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Light dusting to top edge. Contents clean and unmarked.
Shippensburg, PA: The Beistle Co., Ca. 1925. 10 x 7 inches, cover sheet plus 24 loose sheets with red borders, each with a cartoon printed on a tinted background and a 6-line poem in satirical verse style, lampooning their subjects -- the boss's pet, the meek husband, the proud papa.....
(Shippensburg): Beistle Co., Ca. 1920s-30s. 10.5 x 7.75 inches. No date, publisher or any such information, but purchased in a group of similar satirical broadsheet cartoons from the 1920s-30s, some of which were published by the Beistle Co. in Shippensburg, PA, so we're presuming this was printed by them, too.....
(Shippensburg): Beistle Co., Ca. 1920s-30s. 10.5 x 7.75 inches. No date, publisher or any such information, but purchased in a group of similar satirical broadsheet cartoons from the 1920s-30s, some of which were published by the Beistle Co. in Shippensburg, PA, so we're presuming this was printed by them, too.....
(Shippensburg): Beistle Co., Ca. 1920s-30s. 10 x 7 inches, on newsprint quality paper, with satirical cartoon of a suffragette and 4 lines of verse. No date, publisher or any such information, but purchased in a group of similar satirical broadsheet cartoons from the 1920s-30s, some of which were published by.....
New York: Putnam, 1853. Later edition. Hardcover. 1853, later edition, 182 pp. + ads. Illustrated. Hardcover, 8vo., green cloth. Good copy: Soil to endpapers; text shows some foxing. Covers soiled; chipping to spine ends.
New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Purple paper covered boards in dust jacket, octavo, 133pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild edgewear to boards and spine ends, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but top edge of text block is foxed. DJ gently rubbed, sun toned at.....
New York: Self Published, 1911. First printing. Hardcover. No publisher's information or date, but OCLC gives the author as Bowman and states that it was published in 1911. Small 8vo, bound in egg-shell white leather gilt stamped, 34 pp printed on rectos only using a typewriter font, frontispiece of young.....
New York: Bernard Geis, C. 1960. First Printing. Wraps. 9 x 4 inches, wraps, very good, light wear. Hipster, beatnik and slightly transgressive greeting cards.
Chicago: P. F. Volland, C. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 12.75 x 9.25 inches, cloth backed pictorial boards, very good, light general wear to covers, surface soil, rear cover with minor water tidemarks, contents very good and clean, 1914 ink inscription on flyleaf. Cartoons and verses -- any depiction.....
London: Temple Press. Hardcover. First Cheap Edition, priced 3s. 6d. net on flap. No date. ca.1940s. Hardcover. 4to. 64pp. Very Good+ in Very Good (minus) dustjacket. Mild soiling to edges of text block, light wear. Moderate soiling to dustjacket, edgewear with occasional short tears and chipping.
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth, very good. Anthology of contradictory statements and misstatements, much of it making fun of the Scottish and the Irish.