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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light lean to binding, light wear to corners and spine ends, light toning to pages. In a Near Fine price-clipped first issue dust jacket with the..... More
New York: Harmony Books, 1985. First American edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards stamped in metallic green. Near Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a shallow chip at the crown, light rubbing, a small..... More
More Fables
Ade, George; Newman, Clyde J. [Illustrator]
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone, 1900. First edition. (Title page dated 1900, issue without ads like LOC copy noted in Russo p. 36) Original buckram. [viii], 218, [1] pp. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, else Fine. No jacket. A great copy. A follow-up to the author's popular..... More
Anderson, Carl Thomas
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1935. First edition. Unpaginated. Publisher's red cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket, chipped at extremities, spine-sunned, a little rubbed, unclipped ($1.95). A long-running comic strip (1932-2018) of a boy who communicates mainly via pantomime, created when Anderson was 67 years old..... More
Aragones, Sergio
[np]: [No Publisher], 1977. Original cartoon by the prolific Spanish-born illustrator famous for his Mad magazine marginals and comic Groo. Approx. 9" x 12" on a sheet of slightly yellowed sketch-pad paper, in black sharpie, showing what is likely a caricature of the former owner as a fat bear in..... More
Manifesto LAX
Babitz, Eve [Editor]; Steve Martin; Carrie Fisher; Ed Ruscha; Terry Melcher; John Vanhamersveld [Artist]; The Eagles; Richard Adams; Ronee Blakley; Ellie Coppola; Bob Stein; Ron Cooper [Photography]; Ned Doheney; Mirandi Babitz; Nancy Audley; Elisa Leonelli [Photography]; Michael Kovacevich [Photography]
Los Angeles: [No Publisher], [1976]. First and only issue of an underground paper edited by Eve's Hollywood author Eve Babitz and featuring work by a diverse group of Californians in her orbit at the time including actors Steve Martin, Carrie Fisher, and Ronee Blakley, as well as songs by The..... More
The Pursuit of the House Boat
Bangs, John Kendrick; Newell, Peter (Illustrator)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First edition, first issue with seven titles listed on last page of ads, illustration 128 precedes 126 on list at front. viii, 204pp. with four pages of ads at rear. Original tan cloth lettered in gilt on spine, stamped in black, red, blue on..... More
The Dance of Death
[Bierce, Ambrose]; [Thomas A. Harcourt]; William Herman [Pseudonym]
San Francisco: Henry Keller & Co., 1877. First trade edition, following the "Author's Copy" edition that is basically unobtainable. 131 with "The Author to the Public" at rear. Dark green cloth lettered in black. Near Fine, slightly bumped corners, ding to middle of back boards, bookplate on page following front..... More
The I Hate to Cook Book
Bracken, Peg; Hilary Knight [Illustrations]
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. First edition. (First printing with stated "first edition" on copyright page.) Signed by Peg Bracken in the year of publication, "Greetings, and keep your chin up!" xii, 176 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with a few penciled..... More
Stamp Help Out! and Other Short Stories
Bruce, Lenny
New York: [Self-published], 1962. First edition, first issue with four-letter words legible. [52] pp. Stapled wraps. Fears of this San Francisco concert promo booklet harming him in his obscenity trial led comedian Lenny Bruce to have copies destroyed, most that weren't had certain four-letter struck out to render them innocuous..... More
New York: [Self-published], 1962. First edition, second issue with four-letter words struck out. Fears of this San Francisco concert promo booklet harming him in his obscenity trial led comedian Lenny Bruce to have copies destroyed, most that weren't (like this one) had certain four-letter struck out to render them innocuous..... More
Ivan Vejeeghen: Or, Life in Russia
Bulgarin, Thaddeus; George Ross [Translator]
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1832. First American edition. vi, 195, (36, ads); iv, 202 pp. Two Volumes. Original cloth and paper-covered boards with paper spine labels. Good+ copies with chipped and well-worn labels (still legible), boards stained and edge-worn, moderate to heavy foxing throughout contents. Textblock of Vol. 1 split..... More
Goops and How to be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants
Burgess, Gelett
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., Publishers, 1900. First edition, first printing. (No additional printings indicated; three titles including this one facing title page.) Red cloth with cream and black stamping, professionally recased with sturdy binding. Good+. Faint marks on front cover, relaid cloth stained and slightly frayed along edges..... More
English As She is Spoke: or A Jest in Sober Earnest (The Parchment Paper Series I)
Carolino, Pedro; José da Fonseca; James Millington [Introduction]
New York: D. Appleton & Company, [1884]. Early American edition. (One of 14 English language editions identified by George Monteiro in his review of the book in Luso-Brazilian Review; perhaps the third American edition reprinting the British first edition, which was also the first English language edition.) [vi], xvi, 60..... More
The Abandoned Farmers
Cobb, Irvin S
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First edition. 247 p. Brown cloth with black lettering. Frontispiece and endpapers illustrated by Tony Sarg. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Spine panel toned, wear at head and tail of jacket. Twainesque humorist Irvin Cobb's account of his move from the city..... More
A Discovery Concerning Ghosts: With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers."
London: Frederick Arnold, 1863. First edition. Signed by George Cruikshank on the front wrap. 48 pp. Publisher's blue wrappers. Very Good+, lightly worn at extremities and a little soiled. An expose of the various absurdities of spiritualism and their assumptions about the spirit world (he wonders why ghosts always appear..... More
Munchausen at Walcheren: or, a Continuation of the Renowned Baron's Surprising Travels, Adventures, Expeditions, and Exploits, at Walcheren, the Dardanelles, Talavera, Cintra, &c., &c. His Various Combats with Eastern Armies; and the Particulars of a Wonderful Turtle-Feast with Sir W....... C...... on Board his Yacht, when Preparing to Attack Flushing. Written by Himself.
Cruikshank, George (Illustrator); Cruikshank, Isaac (Illustrator); Anonymous
London: Printed for J. Johnston, 1811. First edition. xi, [1, Reference to Plates], 180 pp. With five color plates including fold-out frontispiece by George Cruikshank,"The Journey to the Moon, or Munchausen on Mahomet's Ass." Period half speckled calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with red morocco label lettered in..... More
I Made My Bed
Goldberg, Rube; Kathy O'Farrell [Pseudonym]
Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc, 1960. First edition. Signed by Rube Goldberg on front free endpaper, inscribed "To J. Frederick Cook Jr. with deep appreciation of his interest in my various creative efforts [signed] Rube Goldberg Sept. 26. 1967." 162 pp. Gray cloth with orange and purple lettering on..... More
Greer, Andrew Sean
New York: Lee Boudreaux Books, 2017. First edition, first printing. Signed by Andrew Sean Greer on title page. Very Good with small stain to bottom corner, really only visible on fore edge, faint associated wrinkling. In a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped with slight crimping at head. An uncommon signed..... More
Gregory Talks Black
Gregory, Dick; Milton Glaser [Artist]
New York: Poppy Records, 1970. Original pressing. Promotional LP-sized box with laid in, Milton Glaser color poster (a portrait of Gregory), two 7" records in matching sleeves, a black button reading "Gregory Talks Black," single long sheet (folded) with reviews of Gregory and his comedy, single sheet itinerary. SPS-45-212-1,2,3,4. Records..... More
Life in Hell: Bonus Fun-Fest Holiday Treat. Numbers 1, 2, and 3.
Los Angeles: [Self Published], 1981, 1983, 1984. The first three issues of Groening's Life in Hell Bonus Fun-Fest Holiday Treat.. Each is a limited edition signed by Matt Groening on the front cover; #1 is copy 36/100; #2 is #27/200; #3 is 10 [or 16?]/100. Original photocopied stapled wraps. Very..... More
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. First edition. (First printing with black and red title page and period after the word "Company"; slightly larger variant not listed in BAL, with no fleur-de-lis on spine and a larger text block with an extra centimeter on margins. Currier & Tilton, Bibliography of..... More
Pogo Extra (Election Special)
Kelly, Walt
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition, first printing. Wraps. PBO. Warmly inscribed in blue pencil on ffep to former owner, late North Carolina journalist and author Roy Wilder, a good friend of Up in the Old Hotel author Joseph Mitchell who specialized in stories about southern culture. Pogo..... More
Lebowitz, Fran
New York: Random House, 1981. First edition, first printing. Signed by Fran Lebowitz on the title page. [x], 147 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth and red boards, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, crease to back panel. A signed copy of..... More
Archy & Mehitabel
Marquis, Don
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with orange paper labels to front and spine. Fine, small scuff to front label; a very sharp and clean copy in a Fine second issue dust jacket (publisher merged with George H. Doran..... More