Bloomsbury USA, October 2006. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. At last, the comprehensive book of cartoons from beloved New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.
Ten Speed Press, September 2014. Hardcover. A new copy. A humorous look at what happens when taxidermy goes terribly wrong, by the founder of the hit website crappytaxidermy.com. A relaxed toad enjoying a smoke and a brew. A cat with eerily flexible front legs. A smiling lion with receding gums.....
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress.....
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, May 1983. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Breakfast? Slug Juice""Slug soup's great for lunch""Fry 'em like potatoes""Love the way they crunch" David Greenberg's slugs are not your garden variety vermin. These slugs can be served for breakfast, mailed in an envelope, walked.....
Harcourt College Pub, December 1989. Hardcover. A very good hardcover copy.
H. M. Caldwell Co., 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 87 pages. Illustrations in B/W. Clare Victor Dwiggins (1874-1958) was a syndicated cartoonist. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in stamped tourquoise covers with black and gilt illustrations and lettering on front cover. Edge and corner wear with surface scuffing.....
The Universal Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 158 pages with 2 pages of ads. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Slight edge wear to covers. Pages are browning. Dust jacket with edge and corner wear, spine is tanned.
E. & S. Livingstone, n.d., ca. 1900. Hardcover. 68 pages. B/W illustrations. A very good copy in gray cloth with illustration and lettering in black on front cover. Covers are soiled and scuffed, with edge and corner wear. Binding remains tight. No dust jacket.
Universal Publications Ltd., 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 282 pages with 6 pages of ads. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in blue cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with scuffing, edge and corner wear, closed edge tears, and small chip missing from spine lower edge.....
Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 202 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in green cloth covers with red lettering. Dust jacket with wear to edges and corners and with edge chips.
J. Burns, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. 166 pages. Illustrated with (30) engravings 'exhibiting a few specimens of the distortions which laughter produces on 'the human face divine' (5); smiles (6); vulgar/unintellectual smiles (3); refined. intellectual. amiable smiles (7); creaturecomfort smiles (2); portrait of women from silent thought to hearty laughter.....
University of Texas Press, 1947. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 136 pages with 1 page index. 'Translated in 1764 from the Second German Edition.' First edition thus. Near fine copy in a near very good dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly worn.
Chronicle Books, April 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. National bestselling book: Featured on Midwest, Mountain Plains, New Atlantic, Northern, Pacific Northwest and Southern Regional Indie Bestseller Lists Perfect book for the birder and anti-birder alike A humorous look at 50 common North American dumb birds: For those who have.....
Chronicle Books, April 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. National bestselling book: Featured on Midwest, Mountain Plains, New Atlantic, Northern, Pacific Northwest and Southern Regional Indie Bestseller Lists Perfect book for the birder and anti-birder alike A humorous look at 50 common North American dumb birds: For those who have.....
Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 175 pages. Introduction by John Steinbeck. Foreword by Charles Chalin. Contains many classic cartoons and characters by Capp. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket with tears and creased snags to the edges. Stain from former bookplate.....
W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd., n.d., ca. 1920s. Hardcover. 126 pages. A very good copy in cloth covers in a very good color illustrated dust jacket.
Stanley, Paul & Co., Ltd., 1922, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Who Told You That?, 154 pp.; More Sunbeams, 190 pp; Further Sunbeams, 172 pp. First editions (first printings). Very good copies in uniform red cloth covers. Mild edge and corner wear. In very good color illustrated dust jackets. Dust jackets.....
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.....
I. & M. Ottenheimer, n.d., ca. 1920. Trade Paperback. 8 joke booklets, each of 64 pages, each with color wrappers. Covers with wear but all intact. Pages are browning.
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.....
Gallery Books, September 2020. Hardcover. INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh--beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half--returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. Solutions and Other Problems includes.....
David R. Godine, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong, 8-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches. Illustrated by Stan Washburn. A macabre tale of the circus. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
Ivan Obelensky, 1964. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 30 unnumbered pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Slight foxing on inside of covers.
Three Rivers Press, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). DEADLY NINJA WISDOM FOR THE NON-NINJA Carefully consider the joy of your soft-headed ignorance before you begin to run, flip, and jump along the Ninja Path. After much debate and in a spirit of morbid amusement, the International.....
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.....