The Best of Don Marquis
Doubleday & Co, January 1946. Hardcover. A bit of underlining in pencil.
Doubleday & Co, January 1946. Hardcover. A bit of underlining in pencil.
Harper & Brothers, 1834. Hardcover. x, 318 pp, 3-page Appendix, 10 pp. 'Valuable Works' by Harper & Brothers. BAL 4498. 5th edition. BAL 4498 with 36 letters. Frontis illustration state C with the statement 'as seen through the 'glorification' Spectacles.' The word Fac-simile present. 4 additional illustrations, all illustrations on.....
Viking Adult, November 2008. Hardcover. In this work, Denis Leary uses his common sense, and his biting and hilarious take on the world, to attack the politically correct, the hypocritical, the obese, the thin - basically everyone who takes themselves too seriously.
Earle Tempel, 1956. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 35 pages. 'We have written this book with the beginner in mind, as if the reader were a complete novice in cartoon gagwriting.' - from introduction. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in green wrappers (paperback), stapled. Covers tanned at edges.....
St Martins Pr, March 2006. Hardcover. Award-winning caricaturist Edward Sorel uses his distinctive style to illustrate the strange and eccentric lives of ten iconic literary figures. Literary Lives features the brief, unauthorized biographies of ten larger-than-life literary figures: Tolstoy, Sartre, Eliot, Proust, Yeats, Brecht, Jung, Rand, Mailer, and Hellman. Amusing.....
Grand Central Publishing, September 2012. Trade Paperback. b >With the winning, upbeat candor that has made her show on of the most popular and honored daytime shows on the air, beloved talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres shares her views on life, love, and American Idol. "I've experienced a......
Denoel, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. 191 pages. Cartoon illustraions in color and B/W. Text in French. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in tourquoise cloth covers with embossed title in green on front cover and spine. Covers mildly foxed and with mild edge and corner wear. In very.....
William Morrow Paperbacks, May 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Like Mindy Kaling meets Hyperbole and a Half, I Really Didn't Think This Through gets at the heart of what makes life both so challenging and so joyful--figuring out how to be a person in the world. Did.....
Enthea Press, April 1990. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin was one of the great philosophers of his time. But there was a side to him you were not exposed to in school -- a bawdy, scurrilous side that was all too eager to ignite.....
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, January 1981. Trade Paperback.
Holt Rinehart and Winston, October 1978. Trade Paperback.
Andrews McMeel Publishing, January 1979. Trade Paperback.
Andrews McMeel Pub, October 1990. Trade Paperback. Featuring a generous dose of the uncompromising satire that won the cartoonist a Pulitzer Prize, this collection of daily and Sunday comic strips represents a retrospective look at the politics and events of the late 1980s.
John Heywood and Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1872. Hardcover. 100 pages. Dialect humor. Signed by author on copyright page: '___ from the author / Dec., 1879.' Later printing. Near fine copy rebound in pebbled dark blue cloth with title in gilt on front cover. No dust jacket.
Samuel French, January 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Drama Harold Pinter Characters: 4 male, 2 female Interior Set In a small house at a coastal resort live a man, his mentally wayward wife and their boarder who has been with them for a year. He is a......
Berkley Pub Group, June 1980. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An illustrated collection of 15 macabre short stories. In this gorgeously detailed volume, American artist and author Edward Gorey accents amphigory (nonsense verse or composition) with his signature cross-hatched pen-and-ink drawings. A mix of poetry and prose, light-hearted and decidedly.....
Pomegranate, 2001. First Edition. Calendar. 7 by 8 inches. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in metal spiral bound wrappers (paperback). Minor edge wear. Pages clean and unused. Maudie's life was rather monotonous until she became a prima ballerina, and then the bat really hit.....
Harcourt, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Interviews with the great writer and illustrator. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edward Gorey's extraordinary and often disconcerting books are avidly sought and treasured throughout the world, but until now little has been known about the man himself.....
Touchstone Books, October 2015. Trade Paperback. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grace's Guide and the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! comes a beautifully illustrated, tongue-in-cheek book about style that lampoons fashion and beauty guides while offering practical advice in Grace Helbig's trademark sweet.....
Manic D Press, Inc., June 2003. Hardcover. America's favorite crypto-zoological hominid is hilariously recast as the modern-day everyman, struggling with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, pop culture, and philosophical quandaries ("Me once believe in good. Now, no. World go shit, just like Bigfoot screenwriting career").
Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. 184 pages. Green (1885-1948) was a British-born early animator and illustrator for New York newspapers and one of the early scriptwriters for Hearst Film Service. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: 'To my good friend Capt. Ernie Smith a real.....
Plume, September 1987. Trade Paperback.
And/Or Press, Inc., 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 158 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in illustarted color wrappers (paperback).
And/Or Books, January 1982. Trade Paperback.
William Kaufmann, June 1977. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).