Jones, Sara; Sickles, Victoria; et alMareMagnum
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68 pages. Student publication with the following features: Dorothy's Disappointment; Life in Cuba; Principal's Page; Learning by Doing; Brain and Backbone; Staff Page; Editorial Page; Student Council; Spring Fever; An Appreciation; School News; Exchanges; Athletics; Ruthless Rimes; Jokes. Many nice ads for local businesses. Pencilled name atop first page. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
53 pages. Student publication with these features: Lucky Freddie; On Card-Indexing One's Friends; Royal Weddings; Two Days in the Woods; Principal's Page; Students' Duties to Chaperons; Staff Page; Editorial Page; The Last Lap; The Recent Lecture Course; The Service of Our Exchanges; School News; Exchanges; Athletics; Alumni Notes; Ruthless Rimes; Jokes; Many great local ads. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1st American Edition. Mathew Carey, Printed by A. Small, Philadelphia, 1809. Period full leather with leather spine label, 12mo, viii, 136 pages Illustrated with 6 engraved plates [all present]. Publication of humorous essays and stories by Pindar, Freneau, Ladd, Swift, Dibdin, Pitt, and others. One of the first printed collections of American humor. Not in Paltsits. Scarce. Shaw & Shoemaker 17136; BAL, vol. 3, p. 253. Last auctioned at Christie's, Nov. 18, 1988, lot 282. SUBJECT(S): English wit and humor. English poetry. OCLC: 2161350. Some darkening as expected, front board detached but present, light edgewear to boards and spine, Very Good Condition thus. (AC-22-23)
1st American Edition. Mathew Carey, Printed by A. Small, Philadelphia, 1809. Period full leather with leather spine label, 12mo, viii, 136 pages Illustrated with 6 engraved plates [all present]. Publication of humorous essays and stories by Pindar, Freneau, Ladd, Swift, Dibdin, Pitt, and others. One of the first printed collections of American humor. Not in Paltsits. Scarce. Shaw & Shoemaker 17136; BAL, vol. 3, p. 253. Last auctioned at Christie's, Nov. 18, 1988, lot 282. SUBJECT(S): English wit and humor. English poetry. OCLC: 2161350. Old stain to lower right corner of first 6 leaves. Plates present but first 4 are damaged. Binding lightly worn but good, Good Condition Thus. (AC-22-23A)
160 pages. Features: Cover photos of RFK and Kenneth Keating; Nice color-photo fashion photos; Close-up of the Vietcong in their Jungle - a French reporter held captive by guerrillas in South Vietnam reports on what he saw of the Vietcong; Barry Goldwater's Nine - photos and write-ups of Denison Kitchel, Dean Burch, F. Clifton White, Edward A. McCabe, John Grenier, Wayne J. Hood, Karl Hess, Tony Smith and Stephen Shadegg; An 'Ombudsman' for America; Uncle Sam is Really Needed - growing Federal role in local affairs; The More the Congo Changes - military photos; If 'Creeping Inflation' Begins to Run; Government as Patron of the Arts - there are dangers in official sponsorship and uncritical goodwill; The Flowering of a Campus Hybrid - the two-year community college; Sihanouk - Prince Under Pressure - article with photos, including his ballerina daughter Bopha Devi; Robert Goulet is featured in a color-photo fashion ad for The House of Worsted-Tex; K7UGA Will Get the Ham Vote - Senator Barry Goldwater may get votes from the 266,000 U.S. amateur radio operators; Thirty Years Ago - The Morro Castle burned off the New Jersey shore with a loss of 134 lives; The Basuto Enclave (Basutoland) in South Africa; 2/3-page color ad for movie 'Mary Poppins'; Some sports are 'in' and some are 'out' - a guide to the chic seven; Jokes LBJ has been telling lately; Fashion photos of French designs; When Children Discover Money; Designed for privacy - The New Haven home of Serge Chermayeff and Christopher Alexander; The movie 'Three Coins in the Fountain' has led to millions of dollars pelted into fountains and pools; Chesterfield cigarette ad features photos of J.W. Richards, Joan Lakow and Nelson Reed; Zero Mostel - Rome to Russia; and more. Average wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
237p. 8vo. Original cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Worn copy. HUMOR BOX 6
pp. 158. 8vo. 190 mm. Original publishers pictorial cloth binding in red, black, white and orange. Manuscript ownership of Edwin Daurer. Dust Jacket intact. Complete and Scarce in such nice condition. Hardbound. Very good. NW65
111 pages. Contents include: A Brief Retrospect; Class of '82; Class of '85; Some Old Schill-ings, Dated 1890-'94; Poetry; Our Struggle for Existence; To the Night; There is No Royal Road to Learning; Superstitions of the Labrador; An "Old Grad's" Bit; Vassar College in Retrospect; A Northerner's Impression of Florida; Principal's Page; Messages from 10 Presidents of the Past; Nine editorials; Cartoon; Alumni Notes; Ruthless Rimes; Jokes; Many nice local ads; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1st edition. Fine pbk. Illustrated by Kim Blundell. ISBN 0746007248. 20000. eng
96p. Comic illustrations by M. A. Bowles. 8vo. Original color pictorial wraps, slightly soiled. Nice copy. Puns, etc. from the era of the St. Louis World's Fair. HUMOR 8
pp. xviii, 299. Edges beginning to brown. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, spine darkened. First Edition. Nice copy. This book has 3166 toasts for all occasions: Friendship Toasts; General Miscellaneous Toasts; Old Toasts to Women; Love and Romance; Toasts on Friendship; Companionship; and General Good Feelings; Toasts on Marriage; Home; The Newlyweds; Bachelors; etc.; Patriotic Sentiments; Toasts to the Army and Navy; etc; Toasts to Fortune; Prosperity; Good Luck; Health; etc.; Miscellaneous Toasts of Bygone Days; Verse and Prose Quotations from Famous Authors for Use on Appropriate Occasions; Proverbs. HUMOR 8
Two volumes. Frontis. Penciled underlings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, worn. From Review of Reviews the Best of the World's Good Stories, Wit, Humor, Philosophy Series? HUMOR 6
Book shows light wear to covers. Binding is loose but still intact, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is tattered with large open tears. Decorated endpapers, heavily illustrated with b&w and color photos and illustrations throughout. This is a book of humor using the format of a photographic guide as a means to make visual and verbal jokes around the subject. 100 pages in large format, contents include Rude postcards, Miscellaneous trickery, Exposure, Indoor photography, etc. No pub. date, looks like 50's English.
