New York: Perigee Books, 1989. Uncorrected proof in red non-pictorial card covers. Photos in text. Winters was the funniest man who ever lived. Remainder stripe to bottom page edges, else fine, not creased. Publication date changed by hand on front cover from May to 01 June. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. Advance copy. Octavo, pp (xii), 119, [3], stapled and glued into plain buff card covers. Very small corner crease to front cover, else a fine copy. Comic verse, with good illustrations by G.L. Stampa. Scarce advance format. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1950. Flesh tone illustrated boards. Unpaged. Mild wear to spine tips and outer corners, sunning to spine and inner margins of covers, VG otherwise; Original and quirky captioned cartoons about drinking by the renowned cartoonist

Currumbin Valley, Qld, Australia: Ken Maynard Studios, 1989. 64 pp, stapled, in colour card covers. Number 2 in a series. Fine copy.

Key Porter, 1991. Corner crease to one leaf, else fine. Political cartoons from the Toronto Sun.

New York: Harper, 1950. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 12mo. Yellow pictorial boards printed in red and black. pp (53) Book just a little leaned, else fine. Yellow jacket has some tanning & light rubbing, small spot, to spine; tanning to flap folds; very small chips to head of spine; small tan soil spot to front panel; VG otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

London: Amalgamated Press, 1941. Five issues. 8 page British comic for a juvenile audience printed in red and black on newsprint, folded once horizontally to make quarto pages. Light yellowing as always, VG clean & unworn copies otherwise. No. 1413, 26 April; no. 1417, 24 May; no. 1418, 31 May; no. 1420, 28 June, no. 1423, 09 Aug. Charlie Chaplin appears on each front cove. Pitch and Toss and Their Pets battle Nazis, amongst other adventures. Ceased publication in 1942. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.

Sydney: Currency Press, 1994. Second edition. Profiles and pictures of over 100 Australian comediennes through the years.

Toronto: McCelland and Stewart, 1975. Squarish octavo. VG copy.

No place (London): Smith, Elder, no date (1898?). Octavo, green decorated cloth stamped in gilt. pp (2), 46, [2] + frontispiece, illustrated title, and 20 other plates (one folding), with yellow backgrounds. Damp stain to inner front cover and upper inner corner of rear cover, both inside and out; covers a little bowed; page edges yellowed; text paper lightly toned; otherwise VG, tight and unworn, no owner names. Facsimile of the 1847 first edition.The first of Thackeray's Christmas books, a humorous tale with his own delightful illustrations.

New York: Morrow, 1984. Advance uncorrected proof in red non-pictorial card covers. pp [4], 160. Knife cut across bottom page edges penetrating about 1/16 inch into bottom margins; soft crease to lower outer corners; fore edges of covers a little curled, VG and unfaded otherwise. "Some fifty-five articles and over six dozen cartoons and parodies written a nd drawn by S.J. Perelman between 1924 and 1930, none of which has ever been reprinted elsewhere or appeared in book form...Of special interest is Perelman's little-known work as a cartoonist, done both in bastard-woodcut and idiosyncratically cubist styles." Scarce in this advance format.

San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1905. Square octavo, hardcover, rough natural linen cloth with blue pictorial label to front cover, illustrated endpapers, text printed on beige stock. [128] pp, unpaged. Illustrations in black & blue throughout. Cover label has a small light spot and sma ll abrasion (no illustration or lettering affected); else a fine tight copy, no owner names. Early automobile humour cast in the form of a guest register, full of humourous maxims pertaining to autos and with a space on each text page to be filled i n by guests (none used in this copy). Nicely made, typically of this publisher. Printed by The Tomoye Press.

London: "The Bystander", no date (191-). Quarto, 32 pp, stapled, in grey card covers with colour pictorial label on front cover. Label has light soiling and small chips to one edge (image not affected); a few tiny light spots in top margin of front cover; soft creases to outer corners; VG+ otherwise, a nice copy. The 7th of 8 numbers of this collection of Bairnsfather's popular humorous cartoons of WWI, later collected in book form, along with later volumes along the same line.

New York: Stokes, 1887. Dark green bevel edge pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, floral endpapers, all edges gilt. pp [2], 64. Moderate wear to spine ends and outer corners; damp spotting with colour loss to inner and outer margins of rear cover; creases to free endpapers with red ink name at front; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Cartoons from Life Magazine, the original series which began in 1883 as a general interest and humour magazine.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. Quarto, glossy illustrated boards. Illustrated in colour. Small soft bump to upper outer corners of covers, else fine, no owner names.

Toronto: McCelland and Stewart, 1985. Creases and rubbing to spine; ripple from damp to upper outer corner of early leaves; just a good, tight copy, no owner names. Political cartoons by Canada's best political cartoonist.