Search Results: Humor from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Free Press, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 269 pages. Two Appendices: A) South Lebanon Security Zone Recipes"; B) "Glossary of Israeli Military Slang". First edition, first printing with full number line. A wryly comic memoir of an American Ivy league educated Jew's year long service in the Israeli Defense Force. No previous ownership marks. Small remainder stripe on bottom edge. Else a clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

Scarborough, North Yorkshire: Great Northern Publishing, 2000. Trade paperback. 233pp., Glossary, Illustrated Publisher's catalog appended. Compiled and edited by Mark Marsay. Written and illustrated by Bruce Bairnsfather. Fitst edition. "In this second edition, [are featured] three more works either written or illustrated by Bairnsfather. The books in this edition span the period from 1916 to 1920, and again feature works which have been 'out of print' since the original editions were produced. "full texts and all the illustrations have been included." [from rear panel]. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, near as new. Fine. Scarce.. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York [and] London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Original green cloth with backstrip stamped in red and gold. Illustrated with 24 drawings. Some rubbing to outer joints and light overall wear to extremities. Very good reading copy.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Green cloth with gilt image of woman and small boy on front cover and three separate figuresseparated by gilt lettering, on spine. Illustrated by John Leech with 10 hand colored plates and vignette line drawings. All edges gilt. Book plate of former owner inside front cover. Slightly shaken and moderate wear to spine ends. A nice clean copy with colored plates which still retain their vibrancy. Near very good.. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, 2011. Oblong octavo hardcover bound in pictorial boards. 186 pages. Illustrated throughout with weird and funny photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, sharp, fresh and unmarked copy, as new Fine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. Lightly blindstamped off-white linen with red lettering on spine. Backstrip mildly darkened. In original lme green publishers slipcase. Il lustrated with line drawings by author. A very good copy in lightly worn, very good box.. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by James Thurber. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Forest Hils, New York: Agony Press, 2003. Trade paperback. Glossary. 314 pages. First edition, stated first printing. "Satirical story of Cora Leone Capa da Capa, first female head of a major crime family in America. Cora, her consigliora, Roslyn, and her three sons, Sierra Leone, Sierra Lee Leone, and Donald Corey Leone (later shortened to Don Cory Leone) fight off the most feared crime family who seek world-wide control of the male sex drive." [Google review]. Signed presentation, on dedication page, by author. Slight crease to lower corner of several pages. A clean, square, unmarked copy. No spine crease. Very good. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1928. Tan cloth with humorous drawing on front board, sans dustjacket. Illustrated in cartoon format by author with rhymes and caricatures. Covers moderately age soiled, especially along fore-edge. Good, solid, internally clean copy.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1966. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 118pp., Illustrated with line drawings. No previous ownershiop marks. A clean, sound, tight copy. Very good in a very good dust-jacket, which has no chips or tears,. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 275 pages. First edition, first printing with full number line. The elegant deadpan humor of Sedaris, expressed here in various short pieces concerning everyday events. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York [and] London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1903. Second edition, published one month after the first. Red pictorial cloth with image of man standing before guillotine. Small private bookplate inside front cover. Literary spoof on popular writers of the day. Good.. Second Edition. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Great Britain: Siena, 1998. Book. As New. Laminated Pictorial Boards. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover, yellow pictorial lanimated boards with image repeated on glossy yellow dust-jacket. 256pp., silk ribbon marker sewn in. No previous ownership marks. A vry clean, square, crisp copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket..

Philadelphia: Running Press , 2015. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in red cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 272 pages. Illustrated throughout by Jack Davis, Mort Drucker and the other members of "The Usual Gang of Idiots", in black and white, with a few pages in color. Foreword by "Weird AL" Yankovic. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. Book is clean, fresh and unmarked. Dust-jacket clean with no chips or tears, just shy of new. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Holt Paperback, 2010. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 241 pages. Fifth printing. A hilarious memoir which mines Mennonite culture to brilliant comic effect. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. Very slight dent to front cover at mid spine, else as new. Near fine. .

New York: Plume, 1993. Tall trade paperback. 114pp., Illustrated by Kim Wilson Eversz. Third printing. Bottom corner of rear cover and last several pages show crease, else a clean, square, copy. A humorous, uncensored guide to the off-color colloquialisms of everyday Italian. Written in English and Italian. A near very good copy.. Third Printing. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Warner Books, 1975. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format paperback, quarto size volume bound in stiff paper wraps. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout. First Warner Books edition, first printing thus. No previous ownership name or book plate. Covers show moderate rubbing and several light creases to rear cover, else interior is tight and unmarked. Used copy in good condition. .

New York: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1992. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Printing. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Paperback. 94 pages. Illustrated with drawings by Don Orehek. Second printing. Loony laws passed from coast to coast. Regardless of your political affiliation being barred from painting a horse in Vermont by statute explains much about the current problems in America. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, tight and unmarked copy. Very good..

New York: Atheneum, 1982. Hardcover, price-clipped dust-jacket. 242 pages. Second printing. No previous ownership marks. Light age wear to jacket. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good in a near very good dust-jacket. . Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Gallery Books, 2011. Square trade paperback. 185 pages. Illustrated throughout with color captioned photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A remainder marks. A clean, square, unmarked, near as new copy. Fine. . First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Forge Books, 2005. Hardcover, blue cloth in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 332 pages. Autographed copy, signed by author on title-page. First edition, first printing with full number line. Sticker on front cover reads "autographed copy". No previous ownership marks. Light finger soiling to cloth and white dust-jacket shows mild shelf-wear. A satirically humorous novel about the Vietnam War, "Catch-22 meets Apocalypse Now," or what one USMC retired general called 'brilliant'. A clean, square, sound copy with no writing, marking or creased pages. Dust-jacket is complete with no tears or chips. Near very good in a good dust-jacket. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.