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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.
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
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
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
1st edition. Fine pbk. Illustrated by Kim Blundell. ISBN 0746007248. 20000. eng
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
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
237p. 8vo. Original cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Worn copy. HUMOR BOX 6
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
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)
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
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
Tear on front cover. Digest format. A mirthful melange of humor and verse for scallawags,guzzlers, rounders--and worse.
142p. + Frontis. Illustrated with drawings by Frederick A. Larson. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. Spine and front board labels gold on black. Hardbound. Second printing. Seth Parker was created by Philip H. Lord for an NBC radio show in the late 1920's. HUMOR BOX 4
An early printing of this well-known collection of humorous anecdotes. 88 leaves, the final one blank (i.e., 174 pp.) 8vo. Bound in recent vellum. Some old, faint internal staining, but overall a very pleasing copy. All 16th-century editions of this author are very rare.
1st edition. Fine pbk. ISBN 1852833270. 21208. eng
Period boards. 12mo. 118 pages. Frontispiece. In German. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish wit and humor. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Wayne State, New York Public Library, Hebrew Union College, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Jewish Nat & Univ Library) . Ex-library with usual markings and a bookplate from the personal library of Rabbi Max D. Klein. Minor edgewear. Very good condition. (GER-25-18A) xx
48 page pamphlet. 6"w x 8 1/8"h. Booklet of jokes, cartoons, and black and white photos, many of them of scantily clad young women.
224p., illus. Hardcover Good condition
48 pages. Contents: The President (F.D. Roosevelt) Allows Congress a Chance to Find Own Salvation: Hill Rebels on Spending, Bogs Down on Farm and Labor, Pushes Housing; Pat Harrison: The Portrait of a Politician from Jokes to Taxes; Labor Front: Dearth of Money Weakens Resistance in Ranks; Jury Scandal: Despite Faith of 2 Sheriffs, Frenchy (George Andre) Can't Go Straight; 'Mr. and Mrs. Gregory': The (Charles) Lindberghs Come Home - and Aviation Lobbies Buzz; Japan Hastens Campaign to Control All Shanghai: A Flag and a Grenade Embroil Tokyo With Powers and U.S. Marines; Spain: Zero Hour - Cold and Politics Prolong Gen. (Francisco) Franco's Worries; Imperial Purge: A 'Soldiers' Soldier' (John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker) Becomes Chief of British Army; Rumanian Compromise: Liberals Make Puzzling Deal with Fascists; Mexico: a Celebration - Cardenas' New Deal Goes Ahead Despite Fiscal Troubles; Presenting the 1937 All-American Team - Strong, Versatile, Fast in the Head and Feet; Winter Brings an Enemy: New York Opens Five Clinics to Fight Pneumonia; (Rev. William Norman) Guthrie: Hero Rector of Peter Stuyvesant's Church Decides to Rest; Railroads Want to Spend - With What, Remains Mystery; The Voice of Industry Speaks: N.A.M. (National Association of Manufacturers) Opens 42nd Congress; Farm Puzzle: Both House and Senate Bills Assailed for Complexity; Cure for Coal: Industry Doubts Efficiency of Federal Medicine; and Perspective: Searching for Peace. Camel cigarette color Christmas ad on back cover. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
82 pages. Stories: You're a Man Baby and Don't You Forget It; I was a Gay Male Drag Queen Trapped in the Body of a Woman; Feminist Party Jokes; Ass-Anon Comes to New Jersey; How I Became a Feminist; Guys on Dolls - Four Male Cartoonists Look at the World of Women; National Tampoon; Mary Tyler Moore and Me; A Tale of Modern Romance; Womaning; A Woman Tells Men - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Women and Probably Won't Understand When I Explain It to You; Women, What do they Want?; Scary Monsters; Why Women Become Lesbians. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
642pp. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
ca. 40 p., illus Hardcover Good condition
368p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, slightly worn. HUMOR 8
