Search Results: Humor from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

Paris: Barba. Good. 1801. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. 144 pp., hand-colored portrait frontis; 24mo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Moderate soil, wear to corners; cloth seemed to have bubbled in a few small spots on the spine; tape mend to closed tear text page 49 (1.5"); light foxing to title and most text pages from light to fairly pronounced, mainly at margins. Small foil bookplate front pastedown of Albert Hooper. Text in French. A gathering of poetic epigrams involving puns, anecdotes, jokes, etc. The parts forming the whole literary narrative of an amusing journey. (I think). .

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. As New. 1970. Hardcover. 0870491156 . 8vo; cloth in dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. In this volume: Selections from "Q" Papers; Punch's Letters to His Son; Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Letters; The English in Little; The Cockney; The Undertaker; several from Jenkins; The Wine Cellar. .

MONDADORI. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 8804549343 . Black & white cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages; Signed by Author .

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2011. Hardcover. 8804614234 . Yellow paper over boards in yellow jacket. Black & white & color cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 263 pages .

Mondadori. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2012. Hardcover. 8804625295 . Black & white, and color cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages .

Mondadori. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 8804483679 . Black & white cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; I Libri Di Giorgio Forattini; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 365 pages .

Mondadori Editore. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. Black & white cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 350 pages .

Mondadori Editore. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. Black & white cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 382 pages .

Mondadori. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 8804634154 . Black & white, and color cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages .

Mondadori. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 8804514892 . What appears to be a foil security sticker about the size of a postage stamp affixed to half-title. Otherwise book is as new.; Black & white cartoons throughout.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages .

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 8804387645 . Aproximately 40 pages have purple pen underline, usually one word, ocassionaly a few words, finally several margins notes. ; Black & white cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages .

Mondadori Editore. Fine. 1988. Softcover. White wrappers; Black & white cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages .

Mondadori. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 8804503025 . Black & white cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 382 pages .

Mondadori Editore. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 8804432616 . Black & white cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; I Libri Di Giorgio Forattini; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 406 pages .

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press. Near Fine. 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One 550 copies. 240 pp.; 8vo; bound in blue and brown pictorial boards with tan cloth back; blue label lettered and decorated in black on back; title printed in black & sepia; cut on title page and 33 colored headpieces reproduced from contemporary type specimen book; colored drawing of Squibob himself used as frontis; three sets of facsimile sketches by Squibob, two on blue paper, one on brown paper; facsimile newspaper; numerous small sketches. In plain brown paper jacket. Publisher's announcement about the book being the last of Rare American series laid in causing slight offset to front endpaper. Derby was a Massachusetts-born army officer who established a wit and practical joker even while at West Point. After service in the Mexican War he was assigned to California (1852-56) as a lieutenant charged with making explorations and reports on the gold mining country, the San Joaquin Valley and the… Read More

Watkiss Studios Lts. (1996?). Fine. 1996. Reprint Edition. Softcover. 12mo; sewn grey wrappers. Facsimile of originals published by Mandeville Press. .

Mondadori. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 8804560096 . Small circle and line in pen left margin p. 188, the line goes into the captions text. ; Black & white cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages .

Mondadori. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. 8804583983 . Black & white, and color cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages .

San Francisco: Elder & Shepard. Good. 1902. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Author's Autograph Edition, No. 6 of 103 copies on Sterling Japan Parchment, with an inscribed by the author on limitation page: "I have a theory that Tobacco was named after Tobacchus, an Indian god of revelry and inspiration, Wallace Irwin." 50 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; yellow paper over boards, printed in red; parchment backstrip; eight illustrations & cover design by Gelett Burgess. Soil to covers at extremities and top quarter of back; with some light foxing and spotting; tanning to edges of front endpaper and offset tanning from news article once laid in at gutter of limitation page. A parody of Fitzgerald's version of Omar Khayya m. .

Mondadori Editore. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 880460462X . Black & white, and color cartoons throughout. Captions in Italian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 263 pages .