Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1948. Over 40 b/w Illustrations. First Thus. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good (sl stains/rubbing to cloth). 8vo xii+[2]+433 Compiled by Mathilda Schirmer; contributors include Robert Benchley, Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, Mark Twain, et al. More about The Bedside Book of Humor: Many of the World's Funniest Stories, Poems, Ski ts and Cartoons
N.Y. Frederick A. Stokes [1907]. 4 color illus/plts; decs. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. small 8vo [2],108pp+plts "Being the advice given by the patriarch in his ni ne hundred sixty and ninth year to his great grandson at Shem's coming of a ge in regard..... More about The Maxims of Methuselah
New York, New York, U.S.A. Hyperion Press, 1997. Later Printing. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light overall wear, scuffing to covers, page turned down. More about Brain Droppings
Glendale CA: LA : IMPRENTA, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Presentation copy from publisher (or perhaps author), to noted author/editor/reviewer Paul Jordan-Smith: "to Paul Jordan-Smith Esq. with the compliments of the perpetrator..." More about Cogswell's Almanac : for the Year 1938
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very good- copy with rubbing, scuffing and some nicks to boards; bumping and wear to edges and corners; browning to text. Includes such fables as "The Woman Who was not Athletic", "The Woman Who... More about Fables for the Fair
Highlands, NC: Merry Mountaineers, 1982. Dwyer, Bil. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Some soiling to wraps; fading along stapled spine. More about Sexy Birds of the South
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1930. caricatures by Jan Stanislas de Junosza-Rosciskewski. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall. A good- copy with rubbing, scuffing, smudging, staining and sticker to cloth; bumping to edges and corners; light foxing to endpapers; browning to some corners of text. More about And the Greeks
U.S.A. Oxford University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" (oblong). Clean, tight copy. More about Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy
Seattle: Crowne & Lurie, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Book is tight and clean; jacket has some rippling and minor discoloration from damp to rear panel. More about The best in offbeat humor II: An eclectic work
Seattle: Paul B. Lowney, 1993. Drawings By Frank Renlie. Third Printing. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by author: "To Mary Madly, Paul 23 June '96 p. 81". Minor wear. More about The Pocket Gleeb
New York: Citadel Press, 1956. None. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good to fine (rear eps browned). 8vo 190 Collection of humorous stories in various performing arts. Signed/inscribed by Mahony on ffep, November 1958. More about Barbed Wit & Malicious Humor
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co., 1907. Illustrated. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very good- copy with bumping to edges and corners; scuffing and small nicks to boards; light browning to endpapers; previous owner's ink inscription present. More about Bubbles
New York: D. Appleton, 1924. Later Printing. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original red cloth stamped in black (cloth has some wear and soiling; text has pencil inscription on endpaper, a few smudges). More about The Book of Conundrums
New York / London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. Natwick, Grim (illustrator); Over 20 b/w Illustrations. First Edition, Later Printing. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" VG/VG- [4], 77 pages. Later issue of the short routine concerning the noted humorist's hospital stay, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, 1927... More about Ether and Me : Or, "Just Relax"
Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Ten Speed Pr, 1998. First Thus. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Light wear to wraps. More about Male Menopaws: The Silent Howl
New York: Franklin Watts, 1982. Decorative title Page. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [12], 260 pages. Contains 37 choice excerpts from the author's column in the Los Angeles Times, plus his introduction. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Smith in blue ink on front free... More about How to Win a Pullet Surprise : The Pleasures & Pitfalls of Our Language
