Search Results: Humor from Pistil Books Online

N Y: G.P. Putnam , 1975. Oversize Paperback. Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. . A bit of wear to cover. 8""w x 10 7/8""h. Includes 15 books: The Unstrung Harp, The Listing Attic. The Doubtful Guest, The Object-Lesson, The Bug Book, The Fatal Lozenge, The Hapless Child, The Curious Sofa, The Willowdale Handcar, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Insect God, The West Wing, The Wuggly Ump, The Sinking Spell, The Remembered Visit.

N Y: G.P. Putnam , 1980. Oversize Paperback. Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. . A bit of wear to cover. 8""w x 10 7/8""h. Includes 15 book: The Unstrung Harp, The Listing Attic. The Doubtful Guest, The Object-Lesson, The Bug Books, The Fatal Lozenge, The Hapless Child, The Curious Sofa, The Willowdale Handcar, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Insect God, The West Wing, The Wuggly Ump, The Sinking Spell, The Remembered Visit.

N Y: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Herriman, George. Blue cloth boards with pasted down illustration on cover and label on spine. Edge wear to cover. Front endpaper has been torn out, 269 pages. 5 1/4""w x 7 3/4""h.

Avon, 1954. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Book shows light wear to covers with little creasing, small tear bottom spine, scuffing. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. 128 pages with comic illustrations on each page with caption by a variety of comic artists on age-toned paper.

N Y: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Signed by Author. Signed ""Ogred Weary"" on title page. Limited edition, #83/212. The black over is worn at corners and top and bottom of spine, showing the white underneath. Previous owner's name inside. The dust jacket has many small tears, edge wear, tape, and a sticker on the back. Much romping and frolicking between Alice and several extraordinarily well-formed men, amongst others. 1980 re-issue, ""First Printing"" (first edition thus, first printed in 1961). Small format: 5 1/4"" w x 6 1/2""h.

Santa Barbara, CA: Woodbridge Press Publishing Co., 1992. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed by Author. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Inscribed by author. 160 pages.

Peace Press, 1979. Trade Paperback. Good. Cracked spine, but pages are intact. 214 pages. Publisher's disclaimer: ""This is a work of social, moral, religious and scientific satire, set in the future. It does not intend to malign any individual, race, organization or religion. It does intend to entertainthe reader while increasing hir intelligence.""

France: HA! Humoristes Associ�s, 1981. Oversize Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. Unpaginated. 9 1/8""w x 12""h. Humorous illustrations and cartoons on the theme of wine. Introduction in French. The artists are Avoine, Barbe, Blachon, Bridenne, Lacroix, Laville, Loup, Mordillo, Mose, Napo, Nicoulaud, Sabatier, Serre, Sin�, Soulas, andTrez .

Warner, 1973. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Book shows considerable wear. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. About 150 pages of Mr. Martin's madcap comics & funny flat-tooted figures.

N Y: Simon & Schuster. Oversize Paperback. Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Age-toned paper. 8 1/8""w x 10 7/8""h. 92 pages. Stains to rear cover. Circa 1970's.

Toronto: New Canadian Library / McClelland and Stewart, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Age-toned paper. 190 pages.

Parts Pups, 1967. Pamphlet. Very Good. 48 page pamphlet. 6""w x 8 1/8""h. Booklet of jokes, cartoons, and black and white photos, many of them of scantily clad young women.

Great Britain: Souvenir Press, 1989. First Edition. Oversize Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. 8 3/4""w x 12""h. 124 pages. A must for every serious book-collector: Learn the true definitions of such terms as neat underlining, lovingly thumbed by the owner, one corner barked, and more. Detailed illustrations of said terms.

N Y: HarperCollins, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 6 1/4""w x 8""h. ""In this new collection of comic drawings, William Steig takes a fresh look at the Inescapable Self in its many guises-- the very same subject he explored fifty years ago in his cult classic, The Lonely Ones. As always, his insights are shrewd, his hand is sure, and his spirit is tireless.""

Andrea Hendrick. Staple Bound. Fine. 16-page coloring book by Orcas Island artist Andrea Hendrick.

Perry Colourprint Ltd. . Hard Cover. Good/Poor. Book shows light wear to covers. Binding is loose but still intact, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is tattered with large open tears. Decorated endpapers, heavily illustrated with b&w and color photos and illustrations throughout. This is a book of humor using the format of a photographic guide as a means to make visual and verbal jokes around the subject. 100 pages in large format, contents include Rude postcards, Miscellaneous trickery, Exposure, Indoor photography, etc. No pub. date, looks like 50's English.

N Y: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Light wear and stains to cover. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Previous owner's name inside. 5 1/4""w x 7 7/8""h.

Mt. Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1955. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. McPharlin, Paul. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small tears to dust jacket. Previous owner's name inside. 62 pages.