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AFTER THE BEE. Collected by Jim B. Smith (proof copy)
Edition: First printing
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.
Book ID: 44701More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
BAD DOGS
Edition: First printing
New York: Knopf, 1982. Glossy pictorial boards without jacket, as issued. Bit of sunning to red spine lettering, VG+ otherwise. A collection of cartoons. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53968More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
BALLADS FOR BROADBROWS (proof copy)
Edition: First US printing
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.
Book ID: 42954More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
BOTTLE FATIGUE
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; Octavo
Book ID: 52409More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
BUY A DRINK FOR AN ARTIST. Art by Jesse Lown
Edition: First printing
Victoria, BC: First Choice Books, 1995. Glossy card covers. pp 103. Colour illustrations. Promotional card laid in. Signed by authoir and illustrator (both Torontonians). Corner crease to rear cover, else fine. "A humorous look at the lives of artists in the digital age." Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced; Signed by Author & Artist
Book ID: 52626More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
CARTOONS
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 44567More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
CARTOONS: more Ettamogah Pub mob cartoons
Edition: First Edition
Currumbin Valley, Qld, Australia: Ken Maynard Studios, 1989. 64 pp, stapled, in colour card covers. Number 2 in a series. Fine copy. ; Quarto
Book ID: 48694More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
DUD'S 'N' SCUDS: political cartoons
Edition: First Edition
Key Porter, 1991. Corner crease to one leaf, else fine. Political cartoons from the Toronto Sun.; Quarto
Book ID: 44704More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
IT'S A JOKE, JOYCE: Australia's funny women
Sydney: Currency Press, 1994. Second edition. Profiles and pictures of over 100 Australian comediennes through the years.; Quarto
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 44703More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
MRS. PERKINS'S BALL. By W.A. Titmarsh [pseud]
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.
Book ID: 42701More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THAT OLD GANG OF MINE. The Early and Essential S.J. Perelman (proof copy)
Edition: First Edition
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.; Quarto
Book ID: 4798More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
THE AUTO GUEST BOOK. Being the Maxims of Punjab the Railer, Ga Raja of the Pun-Job, Vice-Roysterer of Notsopoor. Rendered into the Vernacular and Highly Decorated by...
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.
Book ID: 17701More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
"The Bystander's" FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE. Volume VII
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.
Book ID: 44000More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE DOG WHO WOULDN'T BE. Illustrated by Paul Galdone
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992. Paperback reprint. Fine copy, and inscribed by the author "For Baby V.T. Farley Mowat).; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55573More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE GOOD THINGS OF LIFE. Fourth series
Edition: First Edition
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. ; Oblong quarto.
Book ID: 44845More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
UNLUCK WALLY TWENTY YEARS ON
Edition: First printing
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.
Book ID: 42911More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
WHERE'S THE TROUGH ? and other cartoons
Edition: First Edition
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. ; Oblong quarto
Condition: Good
Book ID: 44702More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00