American Humor

[New York City, 1907]. [2]pp. Program. Approx. 14 x 10 inches. Reverse bifolium. Laid paper; deckle edge along bottom. Printed, historiated initial. Folds; faint foxing; very good. Humorous, fun-spirited program for the First Annual Gymkhana or field day held by the Ninth Company (Company "I") of New York's Seventh Regiment, a National Guard equestrian unit. The late summer excursion took members of the regiment by boat from Manhattan to Glenwood-on-the-Sound, Nassau County, Long Island. In addition to... Read more about this item

[Philadelphia.1873.]  "Printed at ye Printing House of Henri B. Ashmeade, wh is sette down on Sansome St." Concert Program. [4]pp. Bifolium of vegetable parchment paper, partly untrimmed. 8½ x 7¼ inches. Annotated in pencil in the top margin: "Concert given by 'old folks' at Academy of Musick April 7th 1873." Folds; minor loss at tail of spine; very good. Delightfully humorous program for a concert of antique music performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Likely getting into the spirit of... Read more about this item

[Boston, 1912]. Broadside. 15½ x 8 inches. Printed all in red. Verso with old scrapbook mounting remnants; tiny small closed tear, almost imperceptible, recto. Robert Charles Benchley (1889-1989) honed and developed his skills as a humorist and actor while at Harvard (Class of 1912). Benchley was an active, and by all accounts, a very entertaining student. He participated with the Harvard Advocate and the Harvard Lampoon, serving as art editor for the latter. Theatrically, he performed in various... Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1965. Presumed first edition (no statement). Hardcover. Very good(+) with minor edge-wear.. Small octavo in red pictorial paper-backed boards; 66 unnumbered pages: illustrations ; 17 cm. The one and only Johnny Carson, in print form. American wit and humor. Cartoons.

Philadelphia: Donaldson and Co., [1881]. 118pp + [14]pp illustrated adverts. 8vo., printed wrappers. Well-illustrated. Lightly-soiled wraps, pale stain and corner crease to rear wrap; a few ruffled fore-edges to some pages. An otherwise handsome copy; Very Good. A humorously and amply-illustrated production; a top-of-the line yearbook for this Ivy League school. In addition to a History of the Class of 1881, Class Prophecy, and Class Poem, the yearbook contains much on school societies, clubs, and... Read more about this item

[Chicago: John McGreer, Copyright 1882.] Five mounted albumen photographs, numbered 1-5 within image. Oblong; mounts 4¼ x 6½ inches; images 4 x 5¼ inches. Light soiling in margins; first mount and photo toned; very good. Complete set of five photographic reproductions from the Cartoon Printing Co. published by Chicago cartoonist John McGreer, based on Solomon Eytinge's racist African American caricatures from his "Blackville" series published by Harper's Weekly. The images show a stereotypical... Read more about this item

William Morrow. Fine+. 1991. 1st Edition. Paperback. Trade Paperback in Fine + condition, pages are tight and unmarked. "The first collection of essays from the host of Whad'ya Know? , public radio's hottest new comedy talk show and semi-quiz program (where the answers are unknowable to anyone but the host). Feldman's essays on life in the Midwest are funny and endearing, and have a ring of truth that clangs like a milk bucket hitting a cement floor." ; 8vo 8" - 9"... Read more about this item