Search Results: Humor from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y., Harper & Brothers [1957]. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. xii, 367 pages, illustranions (line drawings). "A book for people who like to laugh & know how to think, selected from Thurber's work over the last twenty years-- one-third of the text never before in book form." By a New Yorker contributor. Dust jacket clipped, torn; ink owner name; good. stock#24698/h.

N.Y., Putnam,1989. Hard Cover. 320 p., illus., 23.5 cm. "Most of what I say is true, the rest is show business."Stock #29,652. Vg/ dj vg.

NY, Harper & Brothers [1917?]. Hard Cover. [10], 396, [1] p., illus.; 19.5 cm. series: Author's National Edition, Volume XXI. Contents: The American Claimant; Merry Tales: The Private History of a Campaign that Failed; Luck; A Curious Experience; Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning; Meisterschaft: in three acts; Playing Courier. Stock#47061. Good+, spine faded, owner signature / no dj.

Philadelphia Lippincott [1947]. Hard Cover. 204p. illus., 21 cm. "First edition". A light hearted memoir of his youth in Providence and humorous account of his years at Brown University. Stock# 31,116. Vg/ dj good, some tears.

World [c1964]. Hard Cover. 125 p., line drawings; 24 cm. A gathering of humorous verse about ill-behaved children: Put Some Mustard in Your Shoe (12 poems); Wriggling, Giggling, Noise, and Tattling (11); They Spill Their Broth on the Tablecloth (11); The Naughtiest Children I Know (11); Never Stew Your Sister (13); And Beat Him When He Sneezes (10). Pictorial dj clipped, chipped; VG. stock#44925.

N.Y., Simon & Schuster, 1952. Hard Cover. [140] p., 28.5 cm. A gathering of some of England's funniest cartoons. Stock#34819. Vg/ no dj.

N.Y. Simon and Schuster, 1953. Hard Cover. 255 p. illus., 27.5 cm. The cartoonist who created Mr. Milquetoast, The Timid Soul, as well as Life's Darkest Moments. Stock #29749. Vg/ dj torn, panels separated. Book Club Edition.

New York, Viking Press, 1932.. Hard Cover. 125 p. illus., diagrs. 22 cm. Hilarious but real inventions including edible tie pin, automatically tipping hat, metal locket for storing chewed gum, device for Inhibiting Certain Acts in Cows, and trap for tape worms. — all patented. Stock# 43,212. God+,, end papers browned, covers soiled / no dj.

New York, Atheneum, 1970. Hard Cover. ix, 237 p. 21 cm. Forty-five essays selected from his regular newspaper column. The humorist was born and educated in Hungary and moved to Israel in 1949. Stock# 35,311. Vg/ dj vg.

Lincoln, Nebraska, Centennial Press, 1976. Soft Cover. 48 p. 'Ahftah the Bawhston Tea Potty, the Waw of Independence stotted and Ameriker was Bawn.' Each page has a photograph and a 'definition'. Stock#24993. Vg/paper.

Flagstaff, AZ, Northland, 1986. Soft Cover. 100 p. color illus. 23 cm. Not a novel. Nine stories. Illustrations by Bill Ahrendt. Stock#30,499. Good+/ wrappers

Kansas City [Mo.] : Andrews, McMeel & Parker, ©1987.. Soft Cover. 127 p. : illus. ; 23 cm. The first collection of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. The strip had only begun publication in 1985 and already had established a unique identity. ISBN (10): 0836220889. Stock# 46,737. Vg / soft cover.

Pleasantville, N.Y., Reader's Digest Association, c1992.. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 230 p., illus., 23.5 cm. Afterword by Edward Wagenknecht. Tall stories gathered by Mark Twain from the gold camps of California first publised in 1865. Stock# 40,294. Vg/ no dj.

Galerie Martine Gossieaux, mars 2007. First Edition. "Dès son enfance, Chaval s'est toujours senti désabusé et désillusionné. Le mond ne le fait pas souvent sourire... Les dessins de Chaval font sourire ou rire, après un temps." Number 78 of 500 copies. Soft Cover. 60 unnumbered pages, each with a cartoon drawing; 26 cm. Pictorial white paper covers; VG+, gift quality. stock#44881.

Appears to be a gathering of snippets and fragments of things that Morley wrote or began. Signed on the flyleaf. Linen cloth foxed, spotted, spine irregularly indented; ink owner name inside front cover dated 1937; internally clean; Good. Stock#28055/h.

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1956. Contents: Introduction by Sypher; An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith; Laughter by Henri Bergson; Appendix: The Meanings of Comedy. On the cover the titles are reversed. Cover design by E.R. Soft Cover. xvi, 260 pages; 18 cm. Good+. Stock#45827x.

N.Y., Pocket Books, [1965]. Soft Cover. 167 pages, illustrated by the author. The Italian village priest Don Camillo travels to Moscow disguised as a Communist. Stock# 32,737. Vg/ paper. Italian literature

Lunenburg, Vt., Printed at the Stinehour Press, 1970]. Hard Cover. 47 p. illus. 23 cm. "An exhibition held jointly by the American Antiquarian Society ... [and others] in March, 1970." "For forty-five years he had the wit and competence to translate the foibles of his fellow [Americans] into lively images." Iscribed by the author to Stuart Sherman. Stock# 44,014. Vg / illustrated boards.

Penguin [1978]. Soft Cover. 153 p. "Here is a (Comic) Book of Hours, a guided tour to chaos, and a survival manual for people who still believe in laughter." Cover illustrated by Ed Koren. Academic paperback; small stains; good+. Stock#24723.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First Edition. In verse. Takes on contemporary poets-- Frost, Eliot, Pound, even herself. Soft Cover. ix, 99 pages; 21.5 cm. Vg in illustrated wrappers. stock#NS0074.