New York: Black Cat / Grove Atlantic, (2012). SIGNED - The author's first novel, an "Iraq war comedy." SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Karl Marlantes (who called it "hilarious, but the subject matter is deadly serious"), Jonathan Evison ("it deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch 22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war") and more. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780802120328.

New York: Disney / Hyperion, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Blue whales - longer than 30 dogs - make terrible pets. Just ask Billy Twitters ! Billy's parents threaten that they will buy him a Blue Whale to care for if he doesn't clean up his room and sure enough, the next day there is a whale blocking the front door - but don't worry, Billy comes up with a great way to handle his problems! SIGNED by Adams on the title page with a small drawing of an octopus. Oblong format, unpaginated. Wrap-around dust jacket showing the Golden Gate Bridge. ISBN: 978-0786849581.

New York: Crown, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Irreverent essays dissecting the current state of affairs between blacks and whites by this black female political/social humorist. ISBN: 0517597594.

New York: Harper & Row, (1987). First edition - The author's fourth book - "a mock-epic fantasy and satire of entrepreneurial capitalism and popular culture" pitting Howard Johnson against Walt Disney, fighting over the same piece of land in Orlando, Florida, as the site for their versions of the American dream -land owned by Marjorie Post Merriweather, the cereal heiress. 308 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Asimov's fourth collection of limericks and "the first to be entirely respectable." Contains 60 limericks, one for each of the Sherlock Holems canonical tales. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece by Gahan Wilson. #136 of 250 copies signed by Asimov and illustrator Gahan Wilson 60 pp plus author information and the limitation page. ISBN: 0-89296040X.

Los Angeles: Neon Buddha Press, (2004). First edition - The second book of poems by Attie, who has been a student of Zen, Vipassana and Advaita for over 40 years. 86 pp.

New York: Holiday House, (2020). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a humorous new series for older children. "Tom can't help that he's hungry, howling and half dead. Thanks to a series of unfortunate bites, eleven-year old Tom is now part vampire, part werewolf and part zombie - just in time for the first day of middle school." SIGNED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Mark Fearing. 295 pp.

New York: Disney / Hyperion, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A very humorous counting book, with dangers encountered on every page -from cobra snakes to lumberjacks, all of which get in the way of actually counting the monkeys. Illustrated by Kevin Cornell. SIGNED and DATED in Oct 2013 on the title page by the author, Mac Barnett. Oversized square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 9781423160656.

New York: Putnam, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Florida journalist and humorist's first novel. Stephen King said it was the funniest book he'd read in 40 years; Elmore Leonard said "in 50 years" while Carl Hiaasen called it 'outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved - and harrowingly close to real life in Florida.' SIGNED on the title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-739405152.

New York: Putnam, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Florida journalist and humorist's first novel. Stephen King said it was the funniest book he'd read in 40 years; Elmore Leonard said "in 50 years" while Carl Hiaasen called it 'outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved - and harrowingly close to real life in Florida.' SIGNED on the title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-739405152.

New York: Amulet Books (Harry Abrams), (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "It's an animal with an engine. Or is it a car with floppy ears and a wet nose? This is the world of TruckDogs." Illustrated with full color plates. Glossary. INSCRIBED on the half title page and signed by Base with a small drawing and dated in the year of publication. 145 pp. ISBN: 0-810950316.

New York & Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown, (2009). First edition - The author's best-selling and very funny first novel. "Dr Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital. He has a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden." 304 pp,

New York & Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A sequel to BEAT THE REAPER, featuring former hitman Dr. Brnwa, now on the run from the Mob he used to work for. SIGNED on the title page with a stamp reproducing one of the illustrations on the endpapers, and dated in the year of publication. Includes an extensive list of sources. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-0316032193.

New York & Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's best-selling and very funny first novel. "Dr Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital. He has a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden." SIGNED on the title page. 304 pp,. ISBN: 978-0316032223.

New York & Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown, (2009). SIGNED first edition - The author's best-selling and very funny first novel. "Dr Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital. He has a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden." SIGNED on the title page. 304 pp,

New York: Macmillan, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of the Berenstain's first book, a light-hearted but useful guide to living with your new baby, illustrated with their humorous drawings. The Berenstains went on to produce the long-lived and still popular Berenstain Bears series. 92 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Comedian's first book - "sophisticated, sardonic, and witty" - part memoir, part witty commentary on modern life. Photographs. 133 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0159294.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 140 Native American riddles translated from 20 different languages, edited and with an introduction by John Bierhorst. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Louise Brierley. Includes a list of who the riddlers are and sources. 106 pp. ISBN: 0-688095828.

Denver: Coyote Cowboy Company; Record Stockman Press, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poetry and cowboy humor, illustrated throughout with black and white drawings and cartoons by Bob Black, Don Gill, David Holl and Charlie Marsh. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated 1995. Two tickets to "Baxter Black Live" in 1995 stapled to title page. Large format. Notes about the artists. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-939343126.

New York: Henry M. Snyder, (1933.). Hardcover - Illustrated by A. B. Butler, Jr. Unpaginated, a small slender volume.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2020). First edition - A collection of essays -plus a few drawings and poems - on insecurity, fame and anxiety. 280 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.

Vineberg, CA: Pageturner Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by the author and both illustrators on the front endpaper, with the words "Best Wishes." Vinnie the cat has some wild and crazy adventures in France. Map, colorfully illustrated. A title in the Laugh and Learn Travel Series. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-970467818.

New York: Viking, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Charming story of a bookseller who has read every book in his shop and shares his wisdom with all the villagers who come in - until he begins to lose his hearing, which causes him to mistake one word for another, with some humorous results in the advice he gives. Duotone illustrations by Jane Chambliss-Rigie. Unpaginated, slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-670-181390.

West Sussex, UK: Frith House, (2000). SIGNED first edition - In this slim book, Brett fills in "a few gaps in the world of mystery fiction. During the Golden Age of crime, when murders were decorously perpetrated at country house weekend parties and investigated by impossibly learned aristocratic sleuths, nobody took the trouble to write a whodunnit in verse. Simon Brett remedies that. Also, regretting the fact that Jane Austen, T S Eliot and Dylan Thomas never found the time to write crime novels, Simon Brett does the job for them." Also included is a "cancelled draft of Agatha Christie's will and a missing chapter from Charles Dickens' Edwin Drood." SIGNED on the title page. 81 pp. plus a 2 pp list of his books. ISBN: 0-953841006.

West Sussex, UK: Frith House, (2002). SIGNED first edition - Brett returns to verse in this play, a parody of police procedurals, written to show that "mystery fiction can be fun!" SIGNED on the title page. 88 pp plus a 2 pp list of his books. ISBN: 0-953841014.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press / Oxford University Press, 1917. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of humorous essays, some on food, as the title implies, but many of family, friends and also on books and readers, including a delightful one on buying old books. SIGNED by the author on a blank prelim. Illustrated with drawings by Theodore Diedricksen, Jr. 139 pp.