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"Hi Hattie, I'm In The Navy Now" The salty letters of a sailor to his girlfriend
by Johnny Viney
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1941
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£11.52
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New York: M.S. Mill, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First edition (stated). Hardcover in light blue cloth lettered and decorated in white. Unpaginated (aprox. 120 pp.) with "Dictionary of Navy Slang" at rear. Illustrated with humorous cartoon drawings by Deconn. Very good in thttered dust jacket. The fictitious, humorous letters home to his girlfriend, Hattie, of Wilbur… Read more about this item Item Price
£11.52
The Complete Color Polly & Her Pals (Polly and Her Pals, Vol 2)
by Cliff Sterrett
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Edition
- First Printing
- Published
- 1991
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780924359156
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£33.77
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Remco Worldservice Books, 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing. Hardcover. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. 94 pages. Color comic strips.
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£33.77
Polly and Her Pals
by Cliff Sterrett
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Edition
- First printing
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780924359149
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£33.77
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Kitchen Sink Pr (Nrt), 1990. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing. Hardcover. Fine condition in fine, bright dust jacket. 95 pages. Color pictures and comic strips.
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£33.77
The Candidate; A Photographic Interview With The Honorable James Durante
by (Jimmy Durante)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1952
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£9.54
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. Softcover. Very Good. Oversized in photo illustrated softcovers. 118 pp. Photographs by Phillipe Halsman, Schuyler Craig, Yvonne Halsman, and Ylla. Election-year satire proposing comedian Jimmy Durante for President. Very good, eveidence of a now-missing bookplate inside front cover.
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£9.54
The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat Book 2
by Gilbert Shelton and Dave Sheridan
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£11.92
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San Francisco: Rip Off Press, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine. Pulp comic book in color illustrated wraps. Near fine. Fat Freddy's Cat first appeared in "underground comix" in 1969 in various underground newspapers. This is one of the four small collections of those strips.
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£11.92
Polly and Her Pals (Series 1 The Surrealist Period, Volume 1 1926-1927)
by Cliff Sterrett
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780924359149
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£17.44
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Kitchen Sink Press, 1990. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition/ printing. A fine, fresh copy in bright, crisp dust jacket. Folio in black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. A collection of one of the forgotten masterpieces of comic strip history, "Polly and Her Pals" by Cliff Starrett. In it's day, it was compared to Krazy… Read more about this item Item Price
£17.44
Uncle Bill's Letters To His Niece
by Ray Brown
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1917
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£11.92
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New York: Britton Publishing, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover in blue cloth ornately stamped in gilt. Presumed first edition. 113 pp. Illustrated with small black and whire drawings. A tight, fine example. The original color illustrated dust jacket is tattered and laid in in pieces. "Uncle Bill"'s gently humorous letters of life and advice to his teen… Read more about this item Item Price
£11.92
A Duck may Be Somebody's Mother
by George Moorse
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£7.95
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New York: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition/ printing. Hardcover. 182 pp. "A new generation makes the scene in these bizzare, hip, explosively comic short stories..." featuring characters such as motorsycles, country doctors, the jet set, protitures, shady operators and beach bums. Fine in edgeworn dust jacket.
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£7.95
The Story Of A Wonder Man being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner
by Ring Lardner
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1927
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£15.50
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New York: Scribners, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardcover in dark green cloth lettered in gilt and facsimile Lardener signature front cover. 151 pp. Illustrated with drawings by Margaret Freeman. A tight, very good or a bit better example, spine lettering somewhat dulled and rubbed. No jacket.
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£15.50
Gentleman Into Goose: Being the True Account of Mr. Timothy Teapot, Gent...
by Christopher Ward
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Published
- 1924
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£15.50
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New York: Henry Holt, 1924. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. N.d. (1924). Illustrated paper-covered boards printed in 18th century-style type and spelling. 40 pp. Illustrated with small woodcuts. An imitation of 18th century satire on the misacventures of Mr. Teapot "...worthy to be had in all Families for a Warning to Wives and all Batchelors intending… Read more about this item Item Price
£15.50
The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches
by Joseph G. Baldwin
- Condition
- Used - fair
- Edition
- Ninth edition
- Published
- 1855
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£22.65
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New York: D. Appleton, 1855. Ninth edition. Hardcover. fair. Octavo in brown cloth with spine ornately lettered in gilt. One leaf of publisher's ads at front. Engraved frontis on dark brown stock of a comic "Oliver Suggs, Jr.") . vii+ 330 pp. with publisher's catalogue. The ninth edition. A working copy, no endpapers, foxing througout and some light… Read more about this item Item Price
£22.65
The Curious Sofa (in original dust jacket)
by Weary Ogdred (pseud of Edward Gorey)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Edition
- Limited ed
- Published
- 1980
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780396078616
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£23.80
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Dodd Mead, 1980. Limited ed. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Slim square 12mo. hardcover in illustrated paper covered boards. One of 212 numbered copies accoring to the limitation statement but in fact this copy as well as all the others is No. 83. Unpaginated. Illustrated with drawings by Gorey on each facing page. Fine in near fine dust jacket with… Read more about this item Item Price
£23.80
Home Is On Top Of A Dog House
by Charles Schulz
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1966
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£19.87
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San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Small square hardcover in illustrated paper covered boards featuring Snoopy resting top his dog house. Unpaginated. Illustrated on each facing page. First editioon (no statement). A fine, fresh example in bright crisp dust jacket with a minor fault top egde of front panel and very faint rubbing… Read more about this item Item Price
£19.87
The Rube Goldberg Plan for the Post War World
by GOLDBERG, RUBE
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- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£19.87
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1944 NY: Franklin Watts. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Illustrated paper coverered boards. Dampness damage to the lower 1/2" of the front board and lower corner of the rear board, dampstaining lower outside 1/4" of the pages. A scarce, early Rube Goldberg, replete with his trademark wacky inventions. Humor for a war weary nation.
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£19.87
Coe's Crosstown Carnival
by COE, ROLAND
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1935
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£9.93
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New York: New York Post, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Oversized illustrated paper covered boards. Very good plus, a little wear at the corners and foot of spine. A book of cartoons from the midst of the Depression. "New York is Roland Coe's oyster. Not the New York of Park Avenue. but the humble, workaday… Read more about this item Item Price
£9.93
Love Letters That Caused A Divorce
by Mrs. A.E. Aldington
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First American edition
- Published
- 1906
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£19.87
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New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1906. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First U.S. edition. Small 8vo. in red cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. 96 pp. Very good, front cover white stamping rubbed. A collection of 31 humorously satirical one-sided notes and "love letters" from one Catherine (Kitty)Yorke tracing her meeting with a "Mr D___" and their burgeoning… Read more about this item Item Price
£19.87
Biltmore Oswald: The Diary Of A Hapless Recruit
by J. Thorne Smith
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- Used - fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1918
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£39.74
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New York: Stokes, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. fine. First edition of THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Illustrated paper covered boards. 87 pp. with 31 black and white humorous illustrations in black and white. by Richard Dorgan. A tight, bright, generally fine example (and rather unusual thus), with a tiny stain to the upper front tip. Humorous anecdotes of a… Read more about this item Item Price
£39.74
Anecdota Americana: Five Hundred Stories for the Amusement of the Five Hundred Nations that Comprise America (in dust jacket)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- revised
- Published
- 1933
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£15.89
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New York: Golden Hind Press, 1933. revised. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardcover in violet cloth with paper title label spine and front cover. The New Revised Edition. 207 pp. Very good in original dust jacket also very good, price clipped and with some edge wear and staining and small chip to the rear panel. Collection of 500… Read more about this item Item Price
£15.89
Dopey Doings
by Ripley, Elizabeth
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1951
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£9.54
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New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Slim 12mo. in illustrated paper covered boards. Fine in near fine, price clipped dust jacket. Collection of "dope" jokes , for example; "Why did the dope run his car off the cliff? To test his air brakes" and "Why did the dope run around his bed? To… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nothing To Say: A slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, which has "Nothing Top Do" with "Nothing To Wear"
by Doesticks, Q.K. Philander
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1857
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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£15.89
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New York: Rudd & Carlton, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Slim 12mo. in dark brown blindstamped cloth stamped in gilt. Very good, split to the top portion if the front gutter and some sunning to the spine cloth. 60 pp. Illustrated with drawings. Satirical long verse piece.
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£15.89