Search Results: Humor & Satire from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Boston: The Mutual Book Co. Publishers, 1905. Illustrated by b/w Deco title page. First edition. Red blind-stamped cloth, gilt print and decoration on top board, teg. 12mo. pp. 96. Good/No jacket. Slightly sunned boards and spine, several stains. Period collection of shorts and stories for after dinner conversation..

New York: Random House, 2007. State first trade paper (&N1) edition. c.1978 (first separate hardcover edition). Publisher review sheets laid in. yellow wraps. 8vo. pp. 182, [1] colophon. As New. ISBN: 9780812978063..

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street (Schulze & Co.), 1843. First series and edition. Half-titles p.i (blank verso) each volume. 2 volumes. Original purple blind-stamped cloth, yellow eps. 12mo (21cm). pp. viii, 277, [1] blank; vi, 289, [1] colophon . Good/No jacket, as issued/In mylar protector. Spines and partial boards sunned brown, caps chipped, most corners bumped. Repaired rear joint on vol. 2 with archival hinge repair. Name scratched out of small owner ticket vol. 2 pastedown. Foxing starting internally [Additional subtitle with Greek Proverb...and Slickville Translation]..

Miamisburg, OH: Checker Book Publishing Group, 2005. Illustrated by full color. Authorized edition. c.1937-1938. Illustrated gloss pictorial boards. Oblong 8vo. pp. 96. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued/Unclipped price in mylar. Trace cap wear, internally unread copy. ISBN: 193316025X..

Kobenhavn: Grafisk Forlag, (1953). Illustrated by b/w line drawings. First separate edition. Illustrated wraps, uncut. 8vo. pp. 63. VG. Edgewear to covers and one short spine tear. Short stories abbreviated and simplified to coincide with Boyd's standard spelling list. Six shorts and questions..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983`. Stated First American (separate) edition. Cloth backed black boards, uncut. Royal 8vo. pp. xix, [3], 542, [1] colophon, [9] blank. Permission acknowledgements. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Unread anthology of shorts and excerpts, 64 American and British authors..

Boston: Little Brown, (1986). Illustrated by color & b/w author cartoon strips. Stated first (separate) paper edition. c.1983-5. Pictorial stiff wraps. 4to. pp. 224. Near Fine. Traces of edgewear to covers..

Chicago: George Matthew Adams, (1911). Illustrated by Gustavus Bauman port frontis wood engraving, one illustration by William Stevens. Assumed first (NAP) edition. Decorated linen in browns. Large Post 8vo. pp. [16], 17-188, [4] blank. VG/No jacket/Ex-Lib. Gift inscription ffep, donation period library bookplate front pastedown with faint trace of white lettering on spine. Cap and corner wear, page edge toning, tiny nicks to top edge. Rear endpaper glued to pastedown. Canadian humorist and rhymster with the Emporia Gazette 1907-39 referred to as the high priest of horse sense and uncle Walt...in paragraph form..

New York: George H. Doran, (1927). First separate US (GHD emblem on cr page) edition. c.1916, 1917, 1922, 1924, 1925. Brown cloth printed clay. 8vo. pp. 316. Very Good+/No jacket. Small bookseller ticket, lightly foxed endpapers, minor board nick. Ten shorts..

Boston: Little Brown, 1946. Illustrated by Dahl's cartoons. Stated First edition. Tan cloth. Oblong 8vo. pp. 159. VG/No jacket. Ink owner fep, label on fep and pastedowns scuffed from removal of old labels..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. Translated by Charles Scribner, Jr. from the German. Illustrated by b/w recto line drawings by Hans-Georg Rauch (1939-93). First American edition. (c.1975, Germany as Doppelfintin). Red cloth, gilt print spine. Large Post 8vo. pp. 94, [1] last plate. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Traces of cap and corner wear. A unique combination of satire and art. "Men appreciate aphorisms because among other reasons, they contain half-truths. That is an unusually high percentage." (Author quote)..

New York: Crown, (1996). Illustrated by photographs and pointing fingers. Stated first (&N1) edition. First book. Quarter paper boards. Inscribed by "To Jeff - Thanks! M. Moore" on title page. 8vo. pp. 278. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Short bumped heel tear to book and jacket only flaw..

[Framingham, MA]: MetroWest Daily News (CNC), 2005. Illustrated by author cartoons in b/w, 32 pages in color. First edition. First Book. Black paper boards. Signed by author on title page. 8vo. pp. 208. New/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Foreword by Senator Ted Kennedy with letters from Preside George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush. "For nearly three decades, the mild-mannered cartoonist has lampooned presidents and smalltown prima donnas with equal venom. As a caricaturist, he's an equal-opportunity deflator", Chris Bergeron, Staff Reporter in a 11/13/2005 article. ISBN: 1579250252..

San Francisco: Bellerphon Books, 1972 (inside cover, title illustration and kitchen cut-outs!). Illustrated by b/w line drawings throughout. First edition. Introduction by Paul Cohen and art by yours truly, R(obert) Crumb. Color pictorial stiff-wraps, centerfold b/w kitchen kut-outs. 4to. pp. 64. Very Good. Minor bumps, scrapes and cover staining, faint stains to last 2 pages, several scrapes to rear cover, several minor bumps, all kut-outs intact and uncolored. An historical vignette of the 70's eating with all the attended humor and Crumb illustrations..

Bangor, Maine: Coach House, 1968. First edition. Blue cloth. Signed by author on fep. 12mo. pp. 159. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar..

New York: Harvest House, (1943). Stated first edition. burgundy washable cloth. 8vo. pp. vii, [1], 3-313, [1]. VG/Good/Unclipped price in mylar. ...of wit and humor, the dictionary that's arrange laffabetically from A to Z: Wisecracks, puns, comic rhymes, gags, definitions, epigrams, comic proverbs, boners, quips, witticisms, silly similes, nonsense, etc. Short heel sun line in edge chipped jacket with rear soil..

New York: Doubleday, 1986. First edition. Red boards, blue quarter cloth. Small 8vo. pp. 178. Near Fine/VG+/Unclipped price in mylar. Light creasing bottom cap and spine..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1976). First edition. blue boards gilt spine. 8vo. pp. x, 257, [3] blank. Near Fine/In like jacket/Clipped price in mylar..

Providence, RI: Manufacturere Mutual Fire Insurance Co, n.d. May 4, 1953 date stamp on cover. Illustrated by B&W recto baby busts with insurance related captions verso. Only edition. Stapled booklet #173. 8vo. pp. [32]. Very Good. Light cover wear, internally fine. Unique and hilarious, great gift for an insurance related person..

New York: Sheed & Ward, (1973). Illustrated by Gary Trudeau in b/w. First edition. Dk. gray cloth, burgundy eps. 8vo. pp. 110, [16] "notes". Fine/VG/Clipped price in mylar. Shallow/chip tear to one fold of slightly yellowed jacket..