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San Francisco: Rip Off Press, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine. Pulp comic book in color illustrated wraps. Near fine. Fat Freddy's Cat first appeared in "underground comix" in 1969 in various underground newspapers. This is one of the four small collections of those strips.
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The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat Book 2
by Gilbert Shelton and Dave Sheridan
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Anecdota Americana: Five Hundred Stories for the Amusement of the Five Hundred Nations that Comprise America (in dust jacket)
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New York: Golden Hind Press, 1933. revised. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardcover in violet cloth with paper title label spine and front cover. The New Revised Edition. 207 pp. Very good in original dust jacket also very good, price clipped and with some edge wear and staining and small chip to the rear panel. Collection of 500 often but not exclusively mildly risque jokes and anecdotes. Here's an example: "Life's Irony: One night with Venus, six months with Mercury"
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Big Book of Dirty Comics
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Wilmington, DE: Tijuana Publishing, 1976. Softcover. Near Fine. Color illustrated softcovers. Unpaginated (48 pp. ) Illustrated with black and white drawings. Pornographic versions of famous comic strips such as "Pop-Eye", "Charley Brown and Snoopy", "Batman", "Tarzan", "Little Lulu" , "Terry and The Pirates" and others. Quite scarce as this particular volume was reportedly surpressed due to copyright issues as actual names of comic strips were used. Near fine, small scuff left side of front cover, tiny corner crease front cover. Adults only.
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Biltmore Oswald: The Diary Of A Hapless Recruit
by J. Thorne Smith
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New York: Stokes, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. fine. First edition of THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Illustrated paper covered boards. 87 pp. with 31 black and white humorous illustrations in black and white. by Richard Dorgan. A tight, bright, generally fine example (and rather unusual thus), with a tiny stain to the upper front tip. Humorous anecdotes of a World War One Navy recruit. The sketches originally appeared in a Naval Reserve magazine then collected here in book form. Thorne Smith (1892-1934) would go on to become one of the foremost American humorists of the first half of the 20th century; he was best known for his "Topper" novels, books that retained their popularity long after his death and were the basis both for the 1937 movie with Cary Grant and Constance Bennett and the mid 1950s TV series starring Leo G. Carroll as Cosmo Topper.
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Blondie and Dagwood's Adventure in Magic
by Young, Chic
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Racine: Whitman, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 248 pp. plus publisher's ads at rear. Illustrated with comic strip drawings by Chic Young. The Bumsteads go to a magic show and Dagwood returns home convinced that he can be a man of magic. His fateful disappearing act causes Blondie to come to his rescue. Fine, slightly cocked. In very good, color illustrated dust jacket.
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The Candidate; A Photographic Interview With The Honorable James Durante
by (Jimmy Durante)
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. Softcover. Very Good. Oversized in photo illustrated softcovers. 118 pp. Photographs by Phillipe Halsman, Schuyler Craig, Yvonne Halsman, and Ylla. Election-year satire proposing comedian Jimmy Durante for President. Very good, eveidence of a now-missing bookplate inside front cover.
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Coe's Crosstown Carnival
by COE, ROLAND
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New York: New York Post, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Oversized illustrated paper covered boards. Very good plus, a little wear at the corners and foot of spine. A book of cartoons from the midst of the Depression. "New York is Roland Coe's oyster. Not the New York of Park Avenue. but the humble, workaday New York.of O. Henry's 'The Four Million'."
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The Comic Annual
by Hood, Thomas
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London and Philadelphia: Charles Till and Thomas Wardle, 1831. First edition. Leather_bound. Good. 16mo. in original three quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards, spine stamped in gilt and with leather spine label. xvi+ 176 pp. With 50 full page plates and engraved head and tail pieces. A tight example, wear at the tips and rubbed about the edges; spne and outer hinges rubbed; some pencil scribbles to the front endpapers.
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The Complete Color Polly & Her Pals (Polly and Her Pals, Vol 2)
by Cliff Sterrett
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Remco Worldservice Books, 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing. Hardcover. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. 94 pages. Color comic strips.
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The Cream of the Jesters
by MUSSEY, J.B. (ed.)
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NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardcoverf in yellow patterened cloth. 301 pp. Illustrated with line drawings and woodcuts. Very good, no jacket. Collection of humorous sketches and artwork by such literary luminaries as Robert Benchley, Franklin Pierce Adams (FPA), Dorothy Parker , ring Lardner, Ogden Nash, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Will Rogers, Gluyas Williams, Gardner Rea, Rockwell Kent and others.
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Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke, Including An Almanack for Any Two Years (True Love Ought To Last That Long)
by Herford, Oliver; Clay, John Cecil ; direction of Daniel Cupid
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New York: Published for ye Publick Goode by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong octavo in color illusrated paper-covered boards Unpaginated (56 pp. ) illustrated with full page color plates in each facing page as well as small color decorations in the text. Illustrated endpapers. Title page printed in red and black. Absolutely charming little book with a short, often romantic bit of verse and corresponding illustration for each month of the year, often featuring Gibson-Girl type images. Very good, even soiling to the white covers and soem wear at the spine, remnants of an old bookplate front pastedown.
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The Curious Sofa (in original dust jacket)
by Weary Ogdred (pseud of Edward Gorey)
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Dodd Mead, 1980. Limited ed. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Slim square 12mo. hardcover in illustrated paper covered boards. One of 212 numbered copies accoring to the limitation statement but in fact this copy as well as all the others is No. 83. Unpaginated. Illustrated with drawings by Gorey on each facing page. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a tiny cl,osed taer and a trace of rubbing to the folds. A tongue in cheek "pornographic" book whose captions are rather more suggestive that the actual drawings. One of Gorey's least common books.
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Dopey Doings
by Ripley, Elizabeth
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New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Slim 12mo. in illustrated paper covered boards. Fine in near fine, price clipped dust jacket. Collection of "dope" jokes , for example; "Why did the dope run his car off the cliff? To test his air brakes" and "Why did the dope run around his bed? To catch up on his sleep." Yuk, yuk, yuk.
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A Duck may Be Somebody's Mother
by George Moorse
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New York: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition/ printing. Hardcover. 182 pp. "A new generation makes the scene in these bizzare, hip, explosively comic short stories..." featuring characters such as motorsycles, country doctors, the jet set, protitures, shady operators and beach bums. Fine in edgeworn dust jacket.
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The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches
by Joseph G. Baldwin
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New York: D. Appleton, 1855. Ninth edition. Hardcover. fair. Octavo in brown cloth with spine ornately lettered in gilt. One leaf of publisher's ads at front. Engraved frontis on dark brown stock of a comic "Oliver Suggs, Jr.") . vii+ 330 pp. with publisher's catalogue. The ninth edition. A working copy, no endpapers, foxing througout and some light tidemarking to tha final third of the text block. Both gutters frayed but the book is actually tight in the binding. A collection of offbeat and often humorous anecdotes about the ante-bellum deep South. Some of these had appeared previously in The Southern Literary Messenger magazine.
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Further Fables for Our Time
by THURBER, James
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NY: Simon & Schuster, 1956. Hardcover. Very good hardcover. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated. Spine browned.
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Gentleman Into Goose: Being the True Account of Mr. Timothy Teapot, Gent...
by Christopher Ward
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New York: Henry Holt, 1924. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. N.d. (1924). Illustrated paper-covered boards printed in 18th century-style type and spelling. 40 pp. Illustrated with small woodcuts. An imitation of 18th century satire on the misacventures of Mr. Teapot "...worthy to be had in all Families for a Warning to Wives and all Batchelors intending Marriage.." About very good, corners rounded and wear along the spine edges.
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"Hi Hattie, I'm In The Navy Now" The salty letters of a sailor to his girlfriend
by Johnny Viney
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New York: M.S. Mill, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First edition (stated). Hardcover in light blue cloth lettered and decorated in white. Unpaginated (aprox. 120 pp.) with "Dictionary of Navy Slang" at rear. Illustrated with humorous cartoon drawings by Deconn. Very good in thttered dust jacket. The fictitious, humorous letters home to his girlfriend, Hattie, of Wilbur Cedric Jones of Sunnybrook Junction, who joined the Navy thinking he could choose his own battleship.
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Home Is On Top Of A Dog House
by Charles Schulz
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San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Small square hardcover in illustrated paper covered boards featuring Snoopy resting top his dog house. Unpaginated. Illustrated on each facing page. First editioon (no statement). A fine, fresh example in bright crisp dust jacket with a minor fault top egde of front panel and very faint rubbing to the folds.
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Hospital Happy
by Bob Dunn
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Drexel Hill, PA: Bell Publishing Company, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. In fine condition with a near fine dustjacket. Inscribed by the author on the frontspiece drawing. 43 pages. Illustrated.
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