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DILBERT: STILL PUMPED FROM USING THE MOUSE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, (1996). First edition - Dilbert is "the comic strip for the downsizing, techno-talking workplace of the '90s. Cartoonist Scott Adams provides an outrageously fresh and farcical take on the work-a-day world and Dilbert's own pathetic life." Square format. 128 pp. ISBN: 0-752222651.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84445More details Price: $16.50 -
SPLURCH.COM.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
San Francisco: Last Gasp, (2001). SIGNED first edition - "What were those dot com people thinking? An inside look at dot com life in the chaotic months leading up to the new millennium. . . A book which follows the adventures of five larger than life characters as they prepare an IPO (Initial Public Offering)." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-867195355.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83791More details Price: $21.50 -
LIMERICKS: TOO GROSS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1978). Hardcover first edition - The poet and the prolific science fiction writer join forces to produce a bunch of these short humorous verses - includes 144 limericks collected by Asimov and 147 by Ciardi in this literary duel. 101 pp. ISBN: 0-393-014835.
Condition: Very good (gift inscription on front endpaper), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 83531More details Price: $13.50 -
GOLF IS MADNESS.
Edition: First printing.
Norwalk, CT: Golf Digest, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - Humorous stories and illustrations about golf.
Condition: Ex-library with stamps, pocket, as usual; but lightly read, near fine dw.
Book ID: 1783More details Price: $12.50 -
GLEN BAXTER: HIS LIFE : THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Thames And Hudson, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of his early years, as told in words and cartoons - most in black and white, some in full color. As in Gorey's work, the drawings create whole new meanings for the simple text. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-500013071.
Condition: Very good in illustrated boards (gift inscription inside first page), no dj as issued.
Book ID: 42412More details Price: $15.00 -
GLEN BAXTER: HIS LIFE : THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of his early years, as told in words and cartoons - most in black and white, some in full color. As in Gorey's work, the drawings create whole new meanings for the simple text. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-500013071.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards (gift inscription inside first page), no dj as issued.
Book ID: 53517More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BILLIARD TABLE MURDERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Avon, 1991. First edition - An oversized trade paperback. A Gladys Babbington Morton mystery, illustrated with Baxter's very subtle and funny cartoons. Edward Gorey said that Baxter 'betrays all the ominous symptoms of genius.'. ISBN: 0-330-321420.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 13275More details Price: $24.50 -
LOVER BOY: The Last Word in Animal Husbandry
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon hardcover first edition of this early book by the husband and wife cartoonist team who are best known for the Berenstain bears. This is a tongue in cheek look at marriage and its weaker link, the male of the species. 160 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (gift inscription, edgewear to dj, fading to spine of dj,)
Book ID: 24881More details Price: $30.00 -
MY CUSTOM VAN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008) dj. Hardcover - . . and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face. The first book by this comedian, actor and screenplay writer. 224 pp. ISBN: 9781416964056.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57825More details Price: $12.50 -
THE BIG GARAGE ON CLEAR SHOT: Growing Up, Growing Old, and Going Fishing at the End of the Road.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "You can go back one more time, to catch up on some fresh stories, just like those heard around the coffepot at the Big Garage on Clear Shot, named for the local landmark where all Tom's characters get together from time to time. Romance runs rampant: Junkyard tycoon Argus Winslow and professional spinster Ruby McClay are about to tie the knot; vegetarian activist Tamara Dupree and holistic doctor Toby Tobias have joined forces to fight the good fight." Set in small town Alaska back when things seemed more simple. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-688-095259.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54290More details Price: $12.50 -
OLD TIME AND YOUNG TOM.
Edition: First edition.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1912). Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays and speeches by this American newspaperman, humorist and later a clergyman who became well-known through his paragraphs in Iowa's 'The Burlington Hawkeye' which he joined in 1872. Includes his most famous lecture, "The Rise and Fall of the Mustache" - in the foreword, he claims to have given this speech more than 5000 times. Laid in is a newspaper article from shortly after his death and tipped onto the rear endpaper is a picture of his final home in California. Top edge gilt. 325 pp.
Condition: Good overall in burnt sienna cloth with gilt lettering, embossed design on front cover - missing front endpaper, some shelfwear to the edges of the boards and offsetting to the rear endpapers from the newspaper laid in, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85792More details Price: $21.50 -
HOW TO LIVE TO BE 100 - OR MORE: The Ultimate Diet, Sex and Exercise Book*
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Putnam, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - *At My Age, Sex Gets Second Billing. The comedian shares his secrets for a long life and a good martini with readers everywhere. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. Illustrated with photographs. 187 pp plus a final double spread photograph. ISBN: 0-399-129391.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 56975More details Price: $25.00 -
ALMOST A WISE GUY (Based on a True Story).
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Bloomington, IN: 1st Books Library, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Described as humor/memoir/novella on the cover, this is the story of Frankie Crooks, a down-to-earth Italian kid from Greenwich village who is torn between two worlds - the mob and law enforcement - because he has a brother in both. By a stand-up comic, motivational speaker and adventurist... ISBN: 1-4033-10483.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the title page 'for.... always look for the laughter in life.' and dated in 2003. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 30307More details Price: $16.00 -
ECOLO/JEST.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Price Stern Sloan, (1972). First edition - A slim book of cartoons about ecological catastrophe - although published 50 years ago, it is just as funny - or more accurately, not funny - now as it was then. They really are now carrying salmon upstream now to try and save them from extinction. Small square format, unpaginated (48 pp). ISBN: 0-84310192X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 85022More details Price: $25.00 -
WAKE ME WHEN IT'S OVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'Love words (and pictures) out of the corner of the mouth of Abner Dean.' His first volume of light verse enhanced with his sardonic and insightful cartoons as illustrations, 96 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (price-clipped, some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 32979More details Price: $18.00 -
TOTALLY TACKY CARTOONS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Wallaby Books / Simon & Schuster, (1983). First edition - Single panel cartoons, which live up to the title. Some are even funny. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-67150083.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85428More details Price: $13.50 -
JOE'S WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book by this journalist, a humorous comment on the state of things as seen from a dog's point of view: this is 'the personal journal of a newspaper-reading golden retriever with a philosophical turn of mind, who wiles away the hours sipping martinis and commenting on all those things people seem too busy to notice.' John Chancellor described this as giving an entirely new meaning to the phrase 'A dog's life.' Illustrated with drawings by Dobbin and Jean Rather. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 137 pages. ISBN: 0-689-114265.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (appears unread, but closed tear to dj.)
Book ID: 28554More details Price: $18.00 -
MAIDEN VOYAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1950.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 3rd humorous novel written under this pseudonym ("of a respectable professor of pharmacology and a cat-fancier") - the chronicles of a bumbling professor to a post-war England. 320 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Rather uncommon in this condition.
Book ID: 33992More details Price: $20.00 -
NONSENSE IN FLIGHT: Drawings and Verses
Edition: First printing.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1987. Hardcover first edition - Visual puns, humourous poems - inspired by the world of boards. Drew's trademark inventive Illustrations are everywhere - on the endpapers, title page, even on the copyright page. Uncommon.
Condition: F/NF (pc.)
Book ID: 10638More details Price: $25.00 -
NOBODY'S RIB.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: HarperPerennial, 1991. First edition - Pat Stevens, Liz Sweeney, Babette and some other women you know. Includes black-and-white photographs. Dunn was formerly a regular on Saturday Night Live. ISBN: 0-06-0964987.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 20234More details Price: $12.50 -
NOBODY'S RIB.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: HarperPerennial, 1991. First edition - Pat Stevens, Liz Sweeney, Babette and some other women you know. Includes black-and-white photographs. Dunn was formerly a regular on Saturday Night Live. ISBN: 0-06-0964987.
Condition: Near fine (line bottom edge.)
Book ID: 16351More details Price: $9.50 -
THE GAME OF WORDS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bramhall House, 1972. dj. Hardcover - Includes acrostics, alliteration, malapropisms, anagrams, oxymorons, tom swifties, and more. A fun book to browse - but addicitive.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket. (stain on lower edge of textblock, toning to pages, tear on back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 14511More details Price: $12.50 -
PASSIONELLA and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1959). First edition - Award-winning cartoonist's second book - Ella was a chimney sweep in a big office building who lost her job when it became automated, but with the help of her "friendly neighborhood godmother" she became a big-bosomed movie star known as Passionella. By contrast, the final story "Boom" is on the rush to test ever bigger and bigger bombs.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (corner of first page clipped) .
Book ID: 75724More details Price: $17.50 -
BOY, GIRL, BOY, GIRL.
Edition: Early printing, a trade paperback.
New York: Random House, (1961). Award-winning cartoonist's fourth book.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated green wrappers (previous owner's name dated 1961).
Book ID: 69347More details Price: $10.00 -
THE SLIGHTLY OLDER GUY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A survival guide for the midlife male, addressing virtually all of his concerns and offering outrageous suggestions on everything from sexual performance anxiety to memory lapses to cars" as well as dating again, wives and ex-wives and much more. Illustrated with several full-page caricatures. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and simply signed "Bruce." 158 pp. ISBN: 0-684802066.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67806More details Price: $45.00 -
QU'EST CE QUE JE FOUS LA? (What Am I Doing Here?)
Edition: Reprint.
Paris: Dargaud Editeur (1983.). Hardcover - 80 pages de bandes dessines et dessins noirs et blancs. Couverture rigide. Texte en francais (text in French). ISBN: 2205022881.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 54028More details Price: $25.00 -
THE UNSTRUNG HARP or Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A reissue of Gorey's first book, originally published in 1953. Unpaginated, small format. ISBN: 0-15-1004358.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74897More details Price: $16.50 -
QUAKE, QUAKE, QUAKE: A Leaden Treasury of English Verses.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Familiar poems rewritten to expose the idiocy of the arms race, with each one illustrated with one or more suitably ghoulish Gorey drawings.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (small prev owner's name, rubbing to folds of dj.)
Book ID: 23456More details Price: $40.00 -
J.POWER BUZZARD: A Political Fable.
Edition: First printing.
Beverly Hills, CA: Wollstonecraft, Inc. (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Illustrated with many black and white photographs of buzzards - California's turkey vultures - Polital satire. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-88381-0026.
Condition: SIGNED and inscribed by author Carol Henning on the dedication with 'May the buzzards never roost at your house. Stay happy' and the notation 'by Joe, in absentia.' Near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 31844More details Price: $15.00 -
LAUGHTER IN APPALACHIA: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Little Rock, AR: August House, 1987. Illustrated. 159 pages. ISBN: 0-87483-032x.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 19630More details Price: $13.50
