New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Douglas Adams on the half-title page, directly below a red rubber stamp that reads "Always know where your towel is..." Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards over turquoise cloth spine, with titles stamped in metallic pink. Fine, nearly... 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
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First edition, first printing. Very Good. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, soiled and with rubbing to decorative stamping. Front and rear inner hinge cracked but binding remains solid. Pages toned, lightly soiled. BAL 1124 state A, with stems on spine pointing upward, and... More
New York: Workman Publishing, 1980. Later printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Very Good; softcover binding. Light edge wear and light creasing to covers. Foxing to edge of page block. Several hinges over-opened. Rare signed. 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: 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
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1916. First edition. 279 p. Light green cloth with color illustration. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Very light foxing to paste downs. Jacket lightly chipped along top edge, a few short closed tears, a bit rubbed and dust-soiled. A humorous novel of... More
Akron, OH: The B.F. Goodrich Rubber Company, 1926. First edition. 16 pp. Stapled wraps. Slight corner crease to front cover, wraps detached but present, rusting from staples, wear along edges; Good+. A rare pamphlet of auto humor published by tire manufacturers B.F. Goodrich. Only three institutional copies according to a.... 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
Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Lampoon, 1926. (x), 90 pp. Original cloth spine and paper covered boards, title label. First edition. Signed by five editors or contributors to the publication on front free endpaper, former editor John de Courcy (whose copy it was), future political poster artist James Montgomery Flagg (creator... More
New York: Avon, 1962. Signed "To You from Dick Gregory" on front free endpaper. First paperback edition. 125, (2, ads) pp. Illustrated wraps. Very Good with toned pages, faint crease to front corner, light shelf wear, former owner's name on inside of front cover. Visual gags and comedy from the... 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
Portland, OR: E.A. Thomson, 1906. First edition. [154] leaves, printed on rectos only. Original dark brown morocco lettered in gilt. Very Good+. Slight curve to boards, light edge wear, a few finger smudges to prelims, tiny stain to upper corner of last few pages. Prominent Portlandians are gently caricatured by... More
[New York]: [Fuck You Press], 1967. Tabloid format, headlined: Poet Ted Berrigan Teaches Parrot to Scarf Cock. Vol.1, No. 1. Very Good+ with a bit of bumping to corners, very slight toning. A one-off parody newspaper of the New York School, emanating from the Lower East Side on the crest... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First edition. xvi, 151 pp. Original yellow cloth stamped in black. A Very Good copy, sans dust jacket. Cloth a little dust-soiled, spine a bit darkened, small bookstore sticker remnant on front free endpaper. The author's first book written on his own, mostly comprised... More
San Francisco: Dan Perkins, 1987. First edition. Unpaginated. Stapled plain wraps, b/w zine format. Near Fine with very faint creasing to front cover, very slight corner bumping. The uncommon first appearance of the award-winning, long-running political comic strip This Modern World, as a single-issue zine. Perkins would quickly adopt the... More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. First edition. Presentation copy, issued alongside a run of 300 copies, signed by Updike. 41, (1, colophon) pp. Original cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with wear at foot, no slipcase. More
Boynton Beach, FL: Star Publishing Company, 1977. First edition, first printing. Signed by Charles Willeford on the front free end paper. Near Fine, with light offsetting to the endsheets from the jacket flaps, else fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket , with light rubbing. Crime author Charles Willeford's self-published... More
New York: Doubleday Doran, 1930. First edition. (Preceded the British edition by about two weeks.) 340pp. Orange cloth with black lettering. Near Fine with slight spine cock in Good++ dust jacket with triangular chip at foot, small chip at head, nicks along edges, rubbed and a bit soiled, orange on... More