Humor from Tannery Books

Houghton Mifflin & Co,, 1888. First Thus. Hardcover. Ex-library. Charles Dudley Warner, On Horseback - A Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee With Notes of Travel in Mexico and California. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co., First Thus [previous version in The Atlantic Monthly, 1885]. Brown cloth hc with black-stamped cover illustration and gilt spine… Read more

Charlottesville, Va. : Lewis Glaser, 1957. Paperback. Very good. Leo S. Stoutsenberger. George Washington, Lewis Glaser, George Washington's Rules of Civility, Charlottesville, Va., Lewis Glaser, 1957. Stapled blue and white paper covers, 8vo ( 21 cm), 64 unnumbered pp. Taken from 16-year-old Washington's copybook, many of the rules from Francis Hawkins' book, these social rules span from common… Read more

Old York Road Publishing Co., 1952. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Horace Mather Lippincott, Quaker Meeting Houses and a Little Humor, Old York Road Publishing Co., 1952, First Printing. Brown covered hc with white silhouettes on front, 8vo, [vi] 136 glossy pages. Historical vignettes and bw photos of select Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Jersey, North… Read more

London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1929. Third printing. Hardcover. Good +/fair. George Morrow. A. P. Herbert, illustrated by George Morrow, Laughing Ann and Other Poems, London, Ernest Benn Ltd., 1929, third printing. Benn's Essex Library series No. 20. Brown cloth hc with black floral design, 12mo (17 cm), 24 pp including ad for H.G. Wells' works, line drawings; blue… Read more

Doubleday, 2001. Book Club. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. John Grisham, Skipping Christmas, Doubleday, 2001, possible BCE (has ISBN but no price). Blue paper boards with silver lettering on spine, small 8vo, 178 pp; blue dustjacket with wintry scene. Very good/very good: corners bumped, pages crisp, no markings; DJ lightly bumped. Printed in USA

North Carolina Yearly Meeting, 1992. First edition. Paperback. New. David O. Stanfield. Seth B. Hinshaw, illustrated by David O. Stanfield, Quaker Quimericks, North Carolina Yearly Meeting, 1992, First edition. Stapled yellow paper covers, 8vo, 52 pp, limericks and line drawings. New (from publisher) with light shelfwear - one copy has tiny tear on spine, bright, no markings.

Winston-Salem, NC: Foxhound Press, 2004. Paperback. Good +. W.R. Frye; Deep Wells, Dry Springs, and Crooked Creeks: True Stories of Inspiration and Laughter from the Life of a Quaker Pastor; Winston-Salem, NC, Foxhound Press, 2004. Trade paperback, illustration of a well on glossy tan and gray cover, 184 pp, signed by author "Willie Frye" on title page. G+:… Read more