Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1937. Hard Cover. Illustrated; "The Big Little Book." revious owner's name on front paste-down. No pencil or ink markings in text. Pictorial paper boards on stiff cardboard. A couple of signatures loose. Very small closed..... More
Havana, Cuba: Tabasco Publishing Co., c. 1930’s. Stapled Pamphlet. A ribald (maybe even raunchy) joke book published in Havana. 8 pages of riddles. Cover is creased as if folded in someone’s pocket. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918. Hard Cover. First Edition. A serviceable copy with a previous owner name to the endpaper. There is some light foxing, primarily to the title page. Rather engaging illustrations by H. R. Martin throughout..... More
New York: Nantier, 2000. Octavo. Soft Cover. Signed with drawing on half-title. More
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1922. Octavo. Soft Cover. Clare Briggs was the creator of A. Piker Clerk, considered to be the first newspaper comic strip. It appeared in Hearst’s Chicago American in 1903 and was canceled the following year..... More
Akron, OH; New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1935. Soft Cover. Illustrated; Previous owner's name written on reverse of front cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Pictorial paper covers. Covers slightly cocked; Not Ex-Library. More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Hard Cover. First Edition thus. In text illustrations throughout. Minor toning to the endpapers only, and bookplate on the front pastedown. Water staining to the bottom corners of the boards, and some staining to..... More
New York: Albondocani Press, 1976. Original Sewn Wrappers. Limited Edition. Signed. Limited Edition of Les Passementeries Horribles by Edward Gorey, signed and numbered by the author on the limitation page. Stated First Edition. Numbered 159 of 326 numbered and lettered..... More
New York: The Fantod Press, 1970. Stapled Pamphlet. First Edition. The three booklets in stapled printed wrappers are just about Near Fine, though the front panel of The Chinese Obelisks has a very faint crease, and the spine extremities have..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First Edition. Quite a nice First Edition copy, though lacking the publisher’s dustjacket. Some light foxing to the endpaper but not in the text. More
Frankfurt: Verlag Bärmeier und Nikel, [1961]. Miniature. Stapled Pamphlet. Ernst Heyda and TRIX’s Ein Kuesschen in Ehren, or ‘a little kiss in honor.’ An illustrated storybook, unpaginated, with text in German. Stapled softcover, with laminated pictorial covers. Black string marker..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1922. Soft Cover. BRINGING UP FATHER -- stariring that Irish immigrant Jiggs and his wife Maggie -- the iconic creation of George McManus, himself the quintessential Irish-American.~No pencil or ink markings in text; very..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1925. Soft Cover. BRINGING UP FATHER -- stariring that Irish immigrant Jiggs and his wife Maggie -- the iconic creation of George McManus, himself the quintessential Irish-American.~No pencil or ink markings in text; very..... More
Fantod Press, 1991. 12mo. Original Wrappers. Signed. An uncommon Gorey item , signed by Gorey on the title page; a fresh, clean copy. (Toledano, A103). More
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1935. Hard Cover. Illustrated; "The Big Little Book." Previous owner's name written on fep. No pencil or ink markings in text. Paper covers on stiff cardboard. Very small closed tears at top and bottom of..... More
Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, Inc., 1952. Soft Cover. With no marks. Minor shelfwear. Paperback, with illustrations throughout by Laurence Hopper. More
Dublin and London: Mecredy, Percy & Co., [1915]. Quarter Leather. J. C. Percy’s Bulls and Blunders. Rebound in quarter black leather, straight grain morocco, over marbled paper boards, with lettering and rules in gilt to the spine. Toning to the..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1915]. Hard Cover. First Edition. Text illustrations throughout, underlining the humorous nature of the story. With some loss to the fore edge of p. 1/2, affecting the text; also with a few tears..... More
Societe d’Edition et de Publications, 1908. Hard Cover. Cartoons by the French painter and lithographer Jean-Louis Forain. Naughty, and actually quite amusing (a previous owner has provided an English translation of some of them, neatly pencilled below the French caption..... More
![ORIGINAL DRAWING] CARICATURE DRAWING OF SPIRO AGNEW. Jeff MacNelly](/pictures/thumb/290812.JPG?v=1591220030)
An original drawing by three time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly. This large scale caricature -- it measures 33” x 24” -- of Nixon’s Vice-President Spiro Agnew is signed by MacNelly and dated ‘73, the year Agnew resigned from..... More
Bismarck, North Dakota: Sam H. Clark, [1920]. Soft Cover. The April 1920 issue of Jim Jam Jems, A Volley of Truth. Toning to the text, and slight soiling to the covers. Printed paper wrappers. Very Good. More
Bismarck, North Dakota: Sam H. Clark, [1920]. Soft Cover. The March 1920 issue of Jim Jam Jems, A Volley of Truth. Toning to the text, and slight soiling to the covers. Printed paper wrappers. Very Good. More
Bismarck, North Dakota: Sam H. Clark, [1920]. Soft Cover. The May 1920 issue of Jim Jam Jems, A Volley of Truth. Toning to the text, and slight soiling to the covers. Printed paper wrappers. Very Good. More
![THE BILLINGS ZODIAK FAMILY. [JOSH BILLINGS FARMER’S ALLMINAX FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1873]....](/pictures/thumb/282254.JPG?v=1591216845)
[New York]: [G. W. Carleton & Co.], [1873]. Original Sewn Wrappers. A presumed Billing’s Farmer’s Almanac, missing the front cover and thus title and publication information. Original publihser’s sewn binding. Written for the year 1873, with numerous sections comically describing..... More
Frankfurt: Verlag Bärmeier und Nikel, [1961]. Miniature. Stapled Pamphlet. Jules Stauber’s Nixen Lieben Anders, or ‘mermaids loving others.’ An illustrated storybook, unpaginated and without text. Stapled softcover, with laminated pictorial covers. Black string marker tied in. Near Fine. More