The Idiot at Home
Harper & Brothers, 1900. Hardcover. 313 pages. Second state of the first edition. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket.
Humor
Amphigorey
Berkley Pub Group, June 1980. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). 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.....
Of Cats and Men: Profiles of History's Great Cat-Loving Artists, Writers, Thinkers, and Statesmen
Ten Speed Press, April 2017. Hardcover. A very good hardcover. A stylish, illustrated gift book profiling notable cat-loving men throughout history. Some of history's greatest men have been cat lovers, and their cats have contributed to their genius and legacy: the static charge from a cat's fur sparked young Nikola.....
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Bird Books, Books for Bird Lovers, Humor Books)
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.....
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
Andrews and McMeel, 1990. Trade Paperback. 253 pages. Cartoons in color and B/W. A new copy. The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, is a large-format treasury of the cartoons from Yukon Ho! and Weirdos from Another Planet! (including full-color Sunday cartoons) plus a full-color original story unique to this collection. Millions.....
Crap Taxidermy
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.....
Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?: 200 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers
Ulysses Press, August 2015. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Uncover more than 200 fun facts--from baffling and bizarre to entertaining and enlightening--in this insanely enjoyable book of trivia. This curious, captivating collection of trivia will surprise and intrigue readers with amazing answers to questions like: -Is Jurassic Park.....
Happy-Go-Lucky
Little, Brown and Company, May 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. David Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask--or not--was a decision made mostly on.....
Peter Arno
Harpercollins, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
The Devil's Dictionary
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.....
Slugs
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.....
A Limericks Always a Verse
Harcourt College Pub, December 1989. Hardcover. A very good hardcover copy.
Humour Among the Lawyers
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.
The Awful and Ethical Allegory of Deuteronomy Smith. Cover title: The Life History of a Medical Student
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.
Humour in Our Streets
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.....
Bedside Manna: The Third Fun in Bed Book
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.
The Philosophy of Laughter and Smiling
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.....
Thoughts on Jesting
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.
Al Capp's World of Li'l Abner
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.....
Ha! Ha! Ha! Everybody's Book of Humorous Stories & Jokes (cover subtitle: A Book Full of Laughter. A Certain Cure for the Blues)
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.
Who Told You That? A further collection of before and after dinner stories (1922); More Sunbeams. Jokes, Stories & Anecdotes for all occasions (1922); Further Sunbeams. Anecdotes, Jokes and Stories for all occasions (1924) (3 volumes)
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.....
Letters of J. Downing, Major, Downingville Militia, Second Brigade, to his old friend Mr. Dwight, of The New-York Daily Advertiser (5th edition)
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.....
New Joke Books. No. 6, Witty Toasts; No. 7, Select Riddles; No. 16, Original Clown Jokes; No. 38, Modern Jokes; No. 39, Snappy Jokes; No. 41, Breezy Jokes; No. 42, Roaring Jokes; No. 46, Hot Stuff (8 items)
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.
Amphigorey
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.....
The Great Wheadle Tragedy
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.