London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light lean to binding, light wear to corners and spine ends, light toning to pages. In a Near Fine price-clipped first issue dust jacket with the..... More
New York: Harmony Books, 1985. First American edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards stamped in metallic green. Near Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a shallow chip at the crown, light rubbing, a small..... More
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone, 1900. First edition. (Title page dated 1900, issue without ads like LOC copy noted in Russo p. 36) Original buckram. [viii], 218, [1] pp. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, else Fine. No jacket. A great copy. A follow-up to the author's popular..... More
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1935. First edition. Unpaginated. Publisher's red cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket, chipped at extremities, spine-sunned, a little rubbed, unclipped ($1.95). A long-running comic strip (1932-2018) of a boy who communicates mainly via pantomime, created when Anderson was 67 years old..... More
[np]: [No Publisher], 1977. Original cartoon by the prolific Spanish-born illustrator famous for his Mad magazine marginals and comic Groo. Approx. 9" x 12" on a sheet of slightly yellowed sketch-pad paper, in black sharpie, showing what is likely a caricature of the former owner as a fat bear in..... More
Los Angeles: [No Publisher], [1976]. First and only issue of an underground paper edited by Eve's Hollywood author Eve Babitz and featuring work by a diverse group of Californians in her orbit at the time including actors Steve Martin, Carrie Fisher, and Ronee Blakley, as well as songs by The..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First edition, first issue with seven titles listed on last page of ads, illustration 128 precedes 126 on list at front. viii, 204pp. with four pages of ads at rear. Original tan cloth lettered in gilt on spine, stamped in black, red, blue on..... More
San Francisco: Henry Keller & Co., 1877. First trade edition, following the "Author's Copy" edition that is basically unobtainable. 131 with "The Author to the Public" at rear. Dark green cloth lettered in black. Near Fine, slightly bumped corners, ding to middle of back boards, bookplate on page following front..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. First edition. (First printing with stated "first edition" on copyright page.) Signed by Peg Bracken in the year of publication, "Greetings, and keep your chin up!" xii, 176 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with a few penciled..... More
New York: [Self-published], 1962. First edition, first issue with four-letter words legible. [52] pp. Stapled wraps. Fears of this San Francisco concert promo booklet harming him in his obscenity trial led comedian Lenny Bruce to have copies destroyed, most that weren't had certain four-letter struck out to render them innocuous..... More
New York: [Self-published], 1962. First edition, second issue with four-letter words struck out. Fears of this San Francisco concert promo booklet harming him in his obscenity trial led comedian Lenny Bruce to have copies destroyed, most that weren't (like this one) had certain four-letter struck out to render them innocuous..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958. First edition. Signed by Art Buchwald on front free endpaper, inscribed to Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records, dated Feb. 1960. [viii], 211, 3] pp. Bound in publisher's clot, stamped in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, ink transfer from signature to..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1832. First American edition. vi, 195, (36, ads); iv, 202 pp. Two Volumes. Original cloth and paper-covered boards with paper spine labels. Good+ copies with chipped and well-worn labels (still legible), boards stained and edge-worn, moderate to heavy foxing throughout contents. Textblock of Vol. 1 split..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., Publishers, 1900. First edition, first printing. (No additional printings indicated; three titles including this one facing title page.) Red cloth with cream and black stamping, professionally recased with sturdy binding. Good+. Faint marks on front cover, relaid cloth stained and slightly frayed along edges..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, [1884]. Early American edition. (One of 14 English language editions identified by George Monteiro in his review of the book in Luso-Brazilian Review; perhaps the third American edition reprinting the British first edition, which was also the first English language edition.) [vi], xvi, 60..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First edition. 247 p. Brown cloth with black lettering. Frontispiece and endpapers illustrated by Tony Sarg. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Spine panel toned, wear at head and tail of jacket. Twainesque humorist Irvin Cobb's account of his move from the city..... More
London: Frederick Arnold, 1863. First edition. Signed by George Cruikshank on the front wrap. 48 pp. Publisher's blue wrappers. Very Good+, lightly worn at extremities and a little soiled. An expose of the various absurdities of spiritualism and their assumptions about the spirit world (he wonders why ghosts always appear..... More
London: Printed for J. Johnston, 1811. First edition. xi, [1, Reference to Plates], 180 pp. With five color plates including fold-out frontispiece by George Cruikshank,"The Journey to the Moon, or Munchausen on Mahomet's Ass." Period half speckled calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with red morocco label lettered in..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc, 1960. First edition. Signed by Rube Goldberg on front free endpaper, inscribed "To J. Frederick Cook Jr. with deep appreciation of his interest in my various creative efforts [signed] Rube Goldberg Sept. 26. 1967." 162 pp. Gray cloth with orange and purple lettering on..... More
New York: Lee Boudreaux Books, 2017. First edition, first printing. Signed by Andrew Sean Greer on title page. Very Good with small stain to bottom corner, really only visible on fore edge, faint associated wrinkling. In a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped with slight crimping at head. An uncommon signed..... More
New York: Poppy Records, 1970. Original pressing. Promotional LP-sized box with laid in, Milton Glaser color poster (a portrait of Gregory), two 7" records in matching sleeves, a black button reading "Gregory Talks Black," single long sheet (folded) with reviews of Gregory and his comedy, single sheet itinerary. SPS-45-212-1,2,3,4. Records..... More
Los Angeles: [Self Published], 1981, 1983, 1984. The first three issues of Groening's Life in Hell Bonus Fun-Fest Holiday Treat.. Each is a limited edition signed by Matt Groening on the front cover; #1 is copy 36/100; #2 is #27/200; #3 is 10 [or 16?]/100. Original photocopied stapled wraps. Very..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. First edition. (First printing with black and red title page and period after the word "Company"; slightly larger variant not listed in BAL, with no fleur-de-lis on spine and a larger text block with an extra centimeter on margins. Currier & Tilton, Bibliography of..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition, first printing. Wraps. PBO. Warmly inscribed in blue pencil on ffep to former owner, late North Carolina journalist and author Roy Wilder, a good friend of Up in the Old Hotel author Joseph Mitchell who specialized in stories about southern culture. Pogo..... More
New York: Random House, 1981. First edition, first printing. Signed by Fran Lebowitz on the title page. [x], 147 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth and red boards, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, crease to back panel. A signed copy of..... More