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1862pp. 262, (6)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus frontis and full page plates printed on color paper. Foxed. Dampstain. Old bookseller's label. 12mo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, worn. Stained with slight tears on spine. HUMOR 1 x2
1869pp. 213, (4)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus portrait frontis and numerous full page plates printed brown paper. All edges gold. Gutters stained. Some text staining. 8vo. Original full green gold decorated cloth binding, extremities worn. Inner hinges cracked. Manuscript inscription of Hamilton Fish's son, Urlliston Fish, 1929. HUMOR 1
1853371p. Some signatures loose. Old staining. Foxed. Original worn full brown publisher's cloth binding, publisher's initials embossed on front board. First Edition. HUMOR 8
1883pp. 306, (12)[Publisher's catalogue]. XLib call number stamped on page 51. 8vo. Original full cloth binding decorated in gold and red with pictorial of an elephant. Spine darkened with some loss. Binding soiled. HUMOR 3
1971pp. xxiii, 163. Illustrated with photos from Field's movies, state acts, and vaudeville routines. Fist issued in 1940, a presidential year, and Fields at the height of his popularity. The incumbent, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, had very little to worry about from Fields the candidate. But Fields certainly offered a few nuggets of political wisdom in his book for the public to chew on. For example, he poked fun at one of FDR's major policies with this statement: "I shall, my fellow citizens, offer no such empty panaceas as a New Deal, or an Old Deal, or even a Re-Deal. No, my friends, the reliable old False Shuffle was good enough for my father and it's good enough for me." The book's chapters closely followed the typical issues that the on-screen Fields delighted in: 'My Views on Marriage'; 'How to Beat the Federal Income Tax - and What to See and Do at Alcatraz'; 'My Rules of Etiquette'; 'The Care of Babies'; 'How I have Built Myself into a Physical Marvel'; 'How to Suceed in Business'; Etc. An example from 'The Care of Babies': "I always carried a number of sterilized blindfolds, which I would casually place over a baby's eyes before I kissed it. This prevented its growth from being stunted through terror." The photos in this edition are quite remarkable. First photo illustrated edition. HUMOR 8
1761pp. (1) [Title page], (1) ["Advertisement"], (1) ["Dramatis Personae" - a list of the 7 male actors and the 6 women actors, and the roles they play], 106, (2) [Advertisement by the publisher/printer Paul Vaillant offering for sale 24 plays, including four by David Garrick]. 8vo. 5.25 x 8". Some page repairs. Disbound. Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), Irish actor and dramatist, first became an actor in 1754, playing many important roles. He then wrote and produced a series of farces (which were almost all adaptations from the French) that were very successful, securing for their author both fame and wealth. Murphy edited a political periodical, called the Test, in support of Henry Fox, by whose influence he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, although he had been refused at the Middle Temple in 1757 on account of his connection with the stage. Murphy also wrote a biography of Fielding, an essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson and translations of Sallust and Tacitus. FIRST EDITION. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140
1953128p. Cartoon illustrations by Al Ross. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. Rainbow paperback. Original color pictorial wraps slightly worn at extremities. Nice copy. GAMES BOX 4
1942n.p. Illustrated with numerous cartoons from the New Yorker. First and last few signatures foxed. Folio. Original full paper boards binding, cloth backed. Binding somewhat stained and worn. HUMOR 5
194632 p. Illustrated. Text printed in English. 8vo. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps. Very good PA GER-ENG PAMP BX2/BAG 33 x3
1942320 p. Illustrated with drawings by Pete Boyle. . Small 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, with printed paper labels. Dust jacket, worn. The back of the DJ has an appeal from the author (Frances Eisenberg) to buy War Bonds and savings stamps. The illustrator of this book was Pete Boyle, an artist and popular children's show host in Philadelphia. He was the father of "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Peter Boyle (who may have a longer lasting legacy as the monster in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Hardbound. Very Good. First Edition. HUMOR 4
1824Two Volumes bound in one: pp. 323; 347. Engraved bookplate of Macaulay. 12mo. 185 mm. Later 19th century binding. Leather spine over marbled covered boards. Spine decorated and lettered in gold gilt, worn and repaired. Hardbound. Good. Hook was an English man of letters and composer, and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first postcard was received by Hook in 1840, which he probably posted to himself. While he was confined in a debtors sponging-house from (1823-1825), he wrote the nine volumes of stories afterwards collected under the title of Sayings and Doings. After various successes Hook returned to his old habits and a prolonged attempt to combine industry and dissipation resulted in the confession that he was done up in purse, in mind and in body. His estate was seized by the Treasury. He never married but lived with Mary Anne Doughty and they had six children. Hook was one of the most brilliant figures of Georgian times. He inspired the characters of Lucian Gay in Benjamin Disraeli's novel Coningsby and Mr Wagg in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Coleridge praised him as being 'as true a genius as Dante'. First American edition. SCARCE. S&S/AI 16576. PAIMP 23
in-8°, 311 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, relie cartonnage ed., jaquette ill. plast. Jaq. leg. us. [CA26/0]
in-12, 191 pages, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [CA2/3]
In-8 étroit, 221 p., dessins in-t., relié cartonnage illustré. Défauts d'usage. [P-19]
Paperback in-8, 189 pp - Some spine wear. Small moisture stain on cover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. [P-16]
1989176 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Are we and our children being bulldozed into extinction, or have we had enough of this farce? I and others like me have had more than enough. Will you join us? Small piece of masking tape at top of spine. Moderate wear. Light yellowing. Book
198066 pages. Features: The incredible Red Hill treasure; Al Spencer's outlaw loot still missing; fantastic Utah gold mine awaits; silver 'funny money' no joke; New York City coin bonanza; The great silver slabs; The Simplex detector. Moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
199344 pages. Features include: 50 years in an icy tomb - P-38; Air Force buys Airbus; Last Launch - Tracker departs from the Bonaventure; A British Yank in the RCAF; You shouldn't have joined if you can't take a joke; Drug-net - cocaine bust; Air Force engineers and Florida; Flight plan snafu; Dieppe 50 years after. Light wear. Address label upon back cover. Nice clean copy. Book
1942Stories: The Female of the Species; A Weighty Problem; The Town of Ghosts; The Judge's Joke; On Patrol; The Djimat; Adventure Ahoy; The Doctor's Jacket; A New Zealand Man-Hunt; Rough Luck; The Phantom Gunman; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
193796 pages. Features: Thriller - The Frog that Fell out of the Sky; Modern Adventure - Four R.A.F. Planes disappeared before Flying Officer Vickers unmasked the treachery that was to set the frontier aflame with Revolt; The Sky Clown - a joke costs a brave man his courage and makes a fighter of a fool; Call Me Jennie - Major Sharpness made Tigers out of Rabbits - but his first Creation won a most Untigerish name; True Story - The Epic Story of Famous R.F.C Unit - No. 56 Squadron; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
1961Features: Is Abstract Art a Private Joke? - Roger Burlingame; Television USA - John Bartlow Martin's close-up report on the controversial side of TV; People on the Way Up - Brigid Bazlen, Thomas Eagleton, Shelagh Delaney, Jack Heberlig; The Spreading Ocean Floor - Dr. Robert S. Dietz; Many Top-Rated Football Pros were once casual rejects - does their success prove that a coach is no better prophet than anyone else?; The Strange Affair of the Vasa - this unlucky warship sank on her maiden voyage but was found and raised three centuries later; Doctor in the White House - a revealing portrait of Dr.Travell, the first female physician ever entrusted with the President's health; Washington Views Berlin - the strategy Government experts are mapping out to deal with Krushchev. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
198028 pages. Features: Great colour photo ad inside front cover for Borg winter coat fashions for women; Brian Moore - We Were like the Jews in Nazi Germany; On the Rocks - the suburban lives of Vancouver Island lighthouse keepers - feature article with colour photos; 'Exiled' Author Norman Levine Comes Home after 20 years; The Royal Canadian Air Farce - article with great colour photo; Misadventure in the Jade Trade - Laurie Hughes has been fighting to stop the sellout of a rare and precious Canadian resource - article with colour photo of Hughes; Article on she fashion by Marina Sturdza; Howie Meeker appears in ad for Reed Career Service. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
1898Pages 63-124. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: A summer voyage to Greenland; The new sweet-peas; Fred Lewis Pattee; The church and men; Cameron's joke; Coasting on Mile Hill; Hollis - An Agricultural town - feature article with many photos; Dorothys choice; Trust; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
192984 pages plus 36 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part I; The Pirates of the "Ethel" - a tale of Australian piracy from 1899; The White Wanderer - my life among the Nomad Arabs - article with nice photos; The Queer Side of Things - My "Hunch" - a cowboy's plain tale of an odd adventure in Nevada; The Mystery of the "Flying Stones" - a weird story related by a South African policeman; The Judge's Joke - Judge Sawicki of Cleveland was anxious to be rid of three drunks; "Slippery Wiley" Scores Again - an illicit gold buyer in Australia; Photo and caption of a 1.5 ton monster sea turtle caught off Lowestoft, on the east coast of England!; Children of the Desert - a first-hand study of the manners and customs of the Navajo Indians - article with nice photos; Hunter's Luck on the Lion Trail - a lion-hunting story from East Africa - with nice photos; Over the Victoria Falls in a Canoe - Trooper Ramsay survived the 420' fall!; The Haunted Cabin - a queer little tale from Maroon Mountain, British Columbia; Man and his Needs; Stamps of the World. Nice full-page ad for Barney's Tobacco inside front cover. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1965Features: Frank Boucher's Challenge - how we can end the farce of sending fourth-rate teams to the world hockey championships; Nurse Joyce Relyea and her job at the Hospital for Sick Children; Chatham - the good town that's fighting a bad name - its politicians live in fear of nameless terrorists, Ottawa lists it as a 'depressed area', the morals of the children have been thrown into serious question; The Pleasure of Ruins, by photographer Roloff Beny - with great b/w photos, including the Shah and queen of Iran; How the Hedlin family of Winnipeg leaped the language barrier together and learned French; Dr. John Knox, former Danish Ambassador, writes about the Canadian beaver; Robert Thomas Allen on Greece; Volkswagen van ad featuring the entire population of Jiggs, Nevada in one van!. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
