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By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: 1974
Seller ID: 011819
The "Balls For Women" issue. First issue of what was billed as "The New American Humor Magazine," and an attempt to cash in on the unqualified success of 'National Lampoon' (this just in: it didn't). Contributors included artists Gail Burwen, Peter Bramley, Jim Ceribello, Howard Chaykin, Cloud Studio, Tom Hachtman, Jay Lynch and Gerald Wise. The writers were Melvyn Chase, Jeffrey Coloper, Roger Director, Les Ericson, Gene Holstun, Sandy Landsman, Dennis L... View more info
By: Anonymous (ed.)
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Avon 617:
Seller ID: 008881
a collection of cartoons from a variety of practitioners of the form, all dealing in one way or another with the on-going struggle of each sex to have its way with the other; 126 pgs. + 2 pgs. of ads for other Avon titles; bottom corner torn from pg. 37/8, diagonal crease to bottom portion of back cover, slant, some edgewear; like so many of these old Avons, this one probably wouldn't endure any but the most careful of readings; View more info
By: Anonymous (editors of Cracked)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dell 3033: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011672
reoffers stories and art which first appeared in Cracked Magazine from 1969 to 1973, featuring such artists as John Severin and Rodrigues; a competitor/clone of Mad Magazine, but as they say on the cover, "We're number two because we don't try as hard."; rubbing, impressions, moderate general wear; internally tight and clean; uncommon in this condition; View more info
By: Ault, Orvill E.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hicksville, Exposition Press: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016240
Ault's second novel, being "The hilarious adventues of a million-dollar lottery winner and the girls who help him spend it." Signed by Ault on front end paper. Maroon leatherette w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 204 pages. Glue stains to pastedown edges at spine, light general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions/scratches, mild chipping to spine ends/corners, diagonal 1" tear to top right corner of rear panel. View more info
By: Baker, Tom
Price: $8.00
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 008733
Baker is best known as television's Doctor Who. Here he gives us the grotesque and horrific story of an evil thirteen-year-old who despises the human race and enjoys kicking pigs. A grisly little tale with a ratty ending not for the faint-of-heart. Illustrated boards, 126 pages. Scuffed boards, impressions to covers, tanned edges, moderate general wear. View more info
By: Beard, Henry, Michael O'Donoghue, Tony Hendra, Brian McConnachie and Sean Kelly (editors)
Price: $8.50
Publisher: New York, National Lampoon: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016998
"Vol. I, No 5 in a series of special editions published three times a year." Or, more accurately, a collection of material considered by the editors to be the best of National Lampoon's generally hilariously offensive, groundbreaking humour, published because the magazine was a gold mine, and even more money could be squeezed out of its readers if it published a regular series of 'Best of' issues. It certainly worked where I was concerned. Unpaginated, illustr... View more info
By: Bellus, Jean, Douglas McKee and William H. Cole
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Arthur Barker: 1958
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013229
A collection of 108 cartoons featuring an occasionally nude, usually naive young woman who was known as "The Rage of Paris." Captions by Douglas McKee and William H. Cole. Grey cloth w/maroon spine lettering, 112 pages. Price-clipped dust jacket w/small triangular piece from bottom edge of rear panel. View more info
By: Cobb, Irvin S.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1913
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: hu.00009
The renowned American humourist offers four essays, titled "Vittles," "Music," "Art," and "Sport." Dedicated "To R. H. Davis (Not Richard Harding -- The Other One)." "Sport is largely a point of view. A skinny youth who flits forth from a gymnasium attired in the scenario of a union suit, with a design of a winged Welsh rarebit on his chest, and runs many miles at top speed through the crowded marts of trade, is highly spoken... View more info
By: Dehan, Aiken A.
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart:
Seller ID: 008250
an amusing look at a certain bodily function and the social euphemisms/strictures surrounding it; "We all find it highly necessary, several times a day, to wash our hands. Why in the name of common sense and honesty should we think it necessary to refer to this simple natural act as 'seeing a man about a dog,' 'watering the stock,' 'sharpening the skates,' or as the French so subtly put it, 'changer le poisson d'eau.'?"; illustrated orange cloth, 37 pgs., illustr... View more info
By: Dennys, Joyce
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Co.: 1931
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: 017686
A collection of quite amusing stories about doctors, their wives, and patients. Peach cloth w/black cloth backstrip, yellow spine lettering, 154 pages. Slant, worn corners/spine ends, moderate cover soil, soiled/tanned edges, previous owner's name/date on front end paper, small triangular piece torn from left margin of page 73/right margin of page 74 (does not affect text), abrasions to preceding three or four pages (it looks as if some idiot with a pencil was screwing... View more info
By: Douglas, Gavin
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons/Putnam: 1937
Edition: 1st US edition
Seller ID: 013566
From the front flap: "It all starts quite innocently with a cargo of wheat which the truculent captain is loading in the port of Savonia, but before the end has been reached the British flag has been insulted, the British Navy called out to rescue the Empire, the dictator of Savonia has been kidnapped, a torrid Spanish dancer has become involved, questions have been asked in the House of Commons and the choleric, colorful, obstinate Captain Samson has become the unwi... View more info
By: Drew, Simon
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016401
A delightful collection of general goofiness. Or, as the publisher would have it, "A series of poems, drawings and puns...that combine a sense of the ridiculous with a definite seriousness regarding our respect, or lack of it, for the countryside." There are a few first editions kicking around, but they're not signed. There are a few signed copies kicking around, but they're not first editions. This is both. Illustrated boards, 48 pages. View more info
By: Evans, Greg
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Berkley Pacer 08879: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014715
From the front cover: "The second totally hysterical collection of America's hottest new comic strip." And in 1986, I'm sure that it was. 122 pages. A hint of general wear. A nice copy, internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Fraser, Raymond
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Roslin, Lion's Head Press/LHP: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 017185
"Two satiric novels by the 2009 winner of the Lieutenant-Governor's Award." 272 pages, cover painting (Dulle Griet, 1562) by Peter Brueghel. An unread copy. View more info
By: Grayson, H. (pseudonym of Graham Harrison)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Chichester, Barry Rose: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author & Artist
Seller ID: 005711
"A collection of articles written by H. Grayson, humorous columnist with the 'Local Government Review' over a period of 21 years from 1971. In them Grayson turned a subversive spotlight on the more pompous elements in the central and local government establishment and on some of the bizarre decisions and utterances issuing from both during that period of unprecedented change." Illustrations by Tom Harrison, aged 11½. Dust jacket illustration by Sue Harrison. ... View more info
By: Grayson, H. (pseudonym of Graham Harrison)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Chichester & London, Barry Rose: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 007714
author's first novel; this one "brings to more permanent life some of the characters who...have entertained and delighted readers of the 'Local Government Review.'"; "Grayson's" work began appearing in the LGR in 1971, and in the words of this publisher of a volume of collected works, "turned a subversive spotlight on the more pompous elements in the central and local government establishment and on some of the bizarre decisions and utterances issuing... View more info
By: Gunn, Cameron
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Perigree / Penguin: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Gunn, on half-title
Seller ID: 017755
An admirer of Benjamin Franklin, Gunn records his "attempt to live by Franklin's thirteen virtues, a list of lofty ideals the Founding Father held dear," but which take "this ordinary man way outside his comfort zone and into a thicket of not-so-modern values." 250 pages (including notes, brief author biography). Internally tight and clean, with only light general wear. View more info
By: Hart, Johnny
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Gold Medal D1880: 1968
Edition: 1st Gold Medal edition
Seller ID: 009405
Paperback. Near Fine. 1st Gold Medal ed. B.C., the Fat Broad, Wiley, Clumsy Carp, the Cute Chick, Thor and all the rest of your favourite cavemen; View more info
By: Hirsch, Phil, and Paul Laikin
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Zebra 00268:
Seller ID: 008749
A collection of humorous pieces from the writers, artists and editors of Sick Magazine, a competitor of such others of the genre as Mad and Cracked. Contributors include Allan Gascoigne, Don Orehek, Jack Sparling, Bob Heit, Joe Catalano, John Langton, Bob Powell, Vic Martin, and others. Cover illustration by Joe Simon. A bit of soil, impressions/scratches, creases to back cover, tanning. Internally tight. View more info
By: Hoest, Bill
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Signet Q6327: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017038
First printing (w/complete number sequence) of the first collection of cartoons featuring Leroy and Loretta Lockhorn, the husband and wife team about as well-matched as gasoline and fire. 128 pages, foreword by Al Jaffee. Mild slant, some spine sunning, off-setting (tanning) to back cover, inside back cover, and last page. Internally tight. View more info
By: Holloway, Liz
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, Femina Books: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012581
Holloway's first book, and true first edition. A distinguished sixty-five-year-old man of considerable means decides to marry one of his seven mistresses (all of whom are, at the time he makes this bonehead decision, happily co-existing under the same roof), but faces the problem of deciding which one. Blue cloth w/gilt spine lettering/decoration, 181 pages, dust jacket illustration by Leonora Box. Mild slant, gently bumped bottom spine, a hint of corner wear, in dust ja... View more info
By: Ingoldsby, Thomas (pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Glasgow, Manchester & New York, George Routledge and Sons: 1889
Seller ID: 015724
3 volumes from the publisher's Pocket Library series. All 3 in red leatherette w/gilt trim/spine lettering, all edges gilt, 382/319/382 pages, respectively, illustrated. Reading copies only. View more info
By: Jaques-Buddenbohmer, Ingeborg
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Heilbronn, Eugen Salzer:
Seller ID: 008177
text in German; 80 pgs.; some slant, mild general wear; View more info
By: Johnston, Wayne
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017820
Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: the one with the major typographical error, the one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and the one missing an entire leaf. This is the latter, missing pages 213/4, and seems even scarcer than the ... View more info
By: Johnston, Wayne
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017821
Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: one with the major typographical error, one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and one missing an entire leaf. This is the first of those, containing the major error that was subsequently correcte... View more info
By: Johnston, Wayne
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017822
Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: one with the major typographical error, one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and one missing an entire leaf. This is the first of those, containing the major error that was subsequently correcte... View more info
By: Johnston, Wayne
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017823
Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: one with the major typographical error, one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and one missing an entire leaf. This is the first of those, containing the major error that was subsequently correcte... View more info
By: Keating, Walter S. (editor)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Plaza Book Company: 1951
Seller ID: 005384
A collection of chiefly humourous writings on the institution of marriage. Represented are Oscar Wilde (undoubtedly an authority on the subject), Chaucer, Balzac, Burton, Maupassant, Mark Twain, Sterne, Stevenson, Aesop, Billings, Westermarck, Wood, Herrick, Hood, and others. 96 pages. Edgewear, upturned corners, faint soil, moderate general wear. View more info
By: Kelly, Walt
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Crest s708: 1964
Edition: 1st Crest edition
Seller ID: 015706
A collection of selected cartoons from 'I Go Pogo, Vol. 1'. Light edgewear, light rubbing, mild general wear. Internally tight and clean. (C/BT) View more info
By: Ketcham, Hank
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Gold Medal D2389: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010831
the creator of Dennis the Menace offered another character to the cartoon-reading public, a Dennis-the-Menace-with-testosterone named Half Hitch, billed as "America's saltiest, sexiest, pint-sized sailor," and a guy who spent a fair bit of his time thinking about/talking to/dating/hustling women; previous owner's name/date/code number, moderate general wear; View more info
By: Ketcham, Hank
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Fawcett D1329: 1969
Seller ID: 010832
Dennis and Ruff and Joey and Margaret and Mr. Wilson and--well, *you* know who they are; previous owner's name/date/code number at top of first end paper, light general wear; View more info
By: Lazarus, Mell
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap/Tempo 5435: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014763
Collects some of the best Miss Peach cartoons from the previous fifteen years. Introduction by Johnny Hart. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Lazarus, Mell
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bantam 14788: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014764
1st printing w/complete number sequence. A collection of cartoons featuring the nosy, seldom-satisfied buttinski who is every mother. Paperback, unpaginated. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Lee, Stan
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Marvel: 1973
Seller ID: 009561
A collection of old horror movie stills embellished with humourous captions. Cover features Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Basil Rathbone in a scene from Universal's 1939 release, "Son of Frankenstein." Horizontal crinkle (printing imperfection) to back cover; View more info
By: Lee, Stan
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Marvel: 1973
Seller ID: 009567
A collection of old horror movie stills embellished with humourous captions. Also contains movie reviews from Don McGregor and Tony Isabella, an article on "The Creature From The Black Lagoon," a look at the flesh-eating Wendigo, a Tony Isabella-written profile of horror master Robert Bloch, and other features. Cover reproduces a scene from the film, "Bride of Frankenstein." View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin:
Seller ID: 013704
No date (ca. 1895). An amusing travel story, told in fractured German-English (Germish? Engliman?), with a verse here and there to make sure that we are paying attention. Decorated brown cloth, 168 pages (some unopened). Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, moderate general wear. No previous owner's marks or notations. (C/BT) View more info
By: Murray, William
Price: $12.50
Publisher: New York, Dutton: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: hu.00032
Murray's third novel. At a Long Island summer resort a self-proclaimed prophet of a new religion takes it upon himself to act as avenging angel, seeing to it that the worst of cultural and commercial frauds get their come-uppance. Murray sang professionally in Italy, and was a reporter for the Rome bureau of Time-Life International before working for the Italian film industy, eventually ending up on the editorial staff of The New Yorker. Tanned/dusty edges, light spin... View more info
By: Pickens, Stillman "Still" (pseudonym of H. A. "Hal" Fredericks)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fredericton, Omega Publishing Division of Omega Management Services: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017937
A collection of captioned photographs spoofing those who participated in the money-losing proposition that was production of entrepeneur Malcolm Bricklin's car, the Bricklin. Among those being lampooned are then-Premier Richard Hatfield, Bricklin, Lawrence Garvie, minister of economic growth, and several others. Rubbing/impressions/surface wear, previous owner's name date in ink to top of front cover, moderate general wear. View more info
By: Riche, Edward
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017144
A Newfoundland restauranteur whose wife is in Washington and whose business is failing gets together with a neighbour to concoct a scheme that will bring visitors to town and customers to the restaurant. Oh, and the neighbour is in possession of ten kilos of cocaine -- always the first ingredient for mayhem and wackiness. Basis for the film of the same name, which starred William Hurt, Andy Jones and Molly Parker. 259 pages, cover illustration by Avril Orloff. Light ... View more info
By: Rose, Alexander
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Crest s572: 1962
Edition: 1st Crest edition
Seller ID: 010375
the wife of a man who likes to play the ponies a bit too much decides to become his bookie, but when her husband and his friends win big, she can't pay off; originally published in 1960, by Coward-McCann, under the title, "Four Horseplayers Are Missing," and basis for the film of the same name, which starred Dean Martin and Lana Turner, with Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau, Paul Ford, and Nita Talbot; both covers show scenes from the movie; mild spine roll, light co... View more info
By: Sansom, Art
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap/Ace/Tempo Books 07135: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014753
A collection of comic strips featuring Brutus Thornapple, comicdom's boneheaded born loser. Unpaginated. Light general wear. View more info
By: Schneider, Howie
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Tempo 12212 / Grosset & Dunlap / G&D: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017297
The adventures of a bunch of circus misfits "under the guidance of that lovable charlatan, P.T. Bimbo and his left-hand man, Bromo." Schneider, who died in 2007, was the award-winning creator of, among others, the Eek and Meek comic strip. Unpaginated. Creases to back cover, tanning. Internally clean and fairly tight. View more info
By: Shapiro, Jane
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed on bookplate
Seller ID: 009107
a couple of forty-year-olds get married (so right away you know a mistake has been made), and after the honeymoon ends, "real life begins, with its surprises. He trips up stairs, falls going down. He cooks a tasty dinner and the kitchen ends up looking like a slaughterhouse. Absorbed in sexual experimention, he shatters the coffee table. He tenderly wrenches her neck; he breaks her arm. 'It was turning out that my husband's dishevelment was incomparable, potent, rami... View more info
By: Skirrow, Desmond
Price: $11.00
Publisher: London, Bodley Head: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014270
Disillusioned by his advertising career and yearning for independence, a man moves into a remote rural area where he must soon deal with his wife's increasing dissatisfaction with the countryside to which she had previously been eager to move. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 238 pages, dust jacket illustration by Peter Cooper. Light general wear, in price-clipped dust jacket w/sunned spine, moderate general wear. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 007774
Literary criticism. "The central focus of the study is on 'Tristram Shandy' as comedy and on Sterne's use of Tristram as clown-narrator; other chapters are devoted to the genres to which 'Tristram Shandy' is related, to analysis of style, the satiric as well as the comic elements, and to the significant connections between the 'Sermons of Mr. Yorick' and 'A Sentimental Journey'." Pale green cloth, 178 pages (including appendix and index. A hint of wear to corn... View more info
By: Stewart, Murray
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Woodstock, Privately Published: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Stewart, on title page
Seller ID: 016949
A collection of expressions defined for those not lucky enough to live along the Nashwaak or the Upper Miramichi in New Brunswick. 66 pages. Light general wear. View more info
By: Toews, Mariam
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Winnipeg, Turnstone Press: 1997
Edition: 4th printing
Inscription: Signed by Toews, on title page
Seller ID: 017729
Two single mothers load their "clothes and toys and food and kids" into "a van held together with coat hangers and electrical tape" and head off to Colorado to find the fire-eating busker who is the father of the twins of one of them. 192 pages, cover illustration by Rick Sealock. Moderate corner wear, moderate general wear. View more info
By: Torgov, Morley
Price: $18.50
Publisher: Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 010803
Torgov's fourth book, with two of the previous three having won Leacock Medals; Farb the lawyer hates Fridays, and as this one dawns he has to deal with lucrative but disliked clients whose proposed real estate deal may thrust him into a complex, sensitive and potentially unethical situation when he learns that both would-be buyers in a bidding war are also his clients (and we haven't even gotten to the guy who tests his children's loyalty by periodically disinheriting t... View more info
By: Trudeau, G.B. (pseudonym of Garretson Beekman Trudeau)
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010557
Trudeau justifiably won a Pulitzer for this stuff; black cloth; light general wear to both book and jacket; View more info
By: Wodehouse, P.G.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Ace Double D-25: 1953
Edition: 1st thus
Seller ID: 007978
One Jeeves, one not, both good. Cover illustrations by Norman Saunders. Mild spine roll, light edge soil, crease to bottom right tip of 'Quick Service' side, previous owner's name on inside cover of 'The Code of the Woosters' side, tanning. Internally tight. View more info
By: Wodehouse, P.G.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Pocket 495: 1948
Edition: 1st Pocket edition
Seller ID: 012881
A collection of ten stories featuring the world's best-known non-murdering butler. 258 pages + advertisements for other Pocket titles, cover illustration by Louis Glanzman. Some rubbing, a hint of slant, mild dampstaining, tanning. Internally tight. View more info
By: Young, Dean, and Jim Raymond
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap/Tempo Books 12534: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014757
A collection of strips featuring the Bumsteads, quite possibly the most widely read comic strip in the world. Unpaginated. Only a hint of general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Young, Dean, and Jim Raymond
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap/Tempo Books 14144: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014760
The second collection of strips featuring the Bumsteads, quite possibly the most widely read comic strip in the world. Unpaginated. Rubbing, light general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
