Signed Photograph of Marty Allen
No Binding. 10" x 8" N.d. 10" x 8" signed photo. A few small stains to tail edge, else fine. 0. More
Comedy
"Tell Me Another!" A Collection of Humorous Scottish Stories with Illustrations
Glenrothes: J.B. White Ltd. Soft cover. 12mo. [n.d., ca. 195-?] 32 p.p. Illustrated card wraps, staple bound. Some light soiling and foxing to wraps, lijght wear to extremities. Light damp staining to foot and outer margin of several pages. Colour and B&W illustrations throughout. Overall, a very good copy. More
Toasts and Maxims. a Book of Humour to Pass the Time Collected from Various Sources
London: Greening & Co., 1906. Meissonier. Calderon. Wylie, W. L. Glendoni. May, Phil. Campbell, P. Jerome. Reynolds, Frank. Dulac, Edmund. Wood, Lawson. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. ca 1906. 119 p.p. Paperback. Yapped edges. Illustrations throughout book, including 3 pieces by Edmund Dulac (pg. 63, 71, 77). Tears to extremities..... More
The Book of Slang
New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. 178 p.p. Cloth. Foxing to dust-jacket. Discolouration to dust-jacket around edges. Small tears to edges of dust-jacket. Light wear to boards. Foxing to edges of pages. Overall, a near fine copy of book. More
Nueva Biblioteca de La Risa Por Una Sociedad de Literatos de Buen Humor...
New York: D. Appelton Y Compania, 1873. Hardcover. 12mo. Original red cloth, spine decorated in gilt with gilt caricature of a devil dipping a quill into an inkwell. 496 pp., [8] ads. Ownership signature on f.f.e.p., light browning to leaves, some uncut pages, light fading to boards, rubbing along spine..... More
The Honeymoon. A Comedy in Three Acts
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. 111 p.p. Cloth. Loss to spine ends, corners, edges and sides of dust-jacket, worse to spine and rear cover. Dust-jacket front cover includes information about author and play. Slight loss to board spine ends. Title and name of author printed on..... More
Dick's 100 Amusements for Evening Parties, Picnics, and Social Gatherings
New York: A Joyous Harper Book, 1967. Hardcover. 12mo. Original teal cloth boards. 147 p.p., [34 p.p. ads]. Sunning to spine and top and tail edges of boards. Dust jacket is cropped at flaps, sunned at spine and edges, bumped to extremities, chips to spine ends, small perforations to joints..... More
Let Me Off at the Top! My Classy Life & Other Musings
Doubleday Canada, 2013. Hardcover. 8vo (small). 223 p.p., [1]. With [16] photographs. Light rubbing to jacket edges. Some scuffing to boards. Spine ends gently bruised. Interior clean, crisp. Near fine. More
Erewhon and Erewhon Revisted
New York: The Modern Library. Hardcover. 16mo. Both Novels Complete in This Volume. Burgundy cloth, black label on spine and upper front board, xxvii, 622pp, some underlined passages in pencil, name on front free endpaper and writing on verso, light sunning on spine ends. Very Good in Goodm clipped jacket..... More
Caught Short! A Saga of Wailing Wall Street
Toronto: Musson Book Company Ltd., 1929. Hydeman, Sid L. Hardcover. 18mo. Second Edition. Green cloth with title stamped in red on front board and spine. 45 p.p., plus [2] p.p. Spine ends lightly bruised, slight fraying at head. Scuffs and rubbing to lower front board. Light stains, offsetting to endpapers..... More
Three Men and a Girl
London: Heinemann, 1958. Hawkins, Sheila. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Blind Windmill Press device to lower rear cover. Bumping to spine ends. Tilting to spine. Dust jacket lightly bumped to extremities and sunned to spine, a few small chips. Laid-in description. Illustrated by..... More
The Kings Treasuries of Literature
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1956. Hardcover. 18mo. 191 p.p. Blue cloth boards. No jacket. Title stamped on spine. Light wear to extremities of boards. Interior clean. Near fine copy. More
Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss
New York: Grove Press, 2009. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Foreword by Al Franken. xi, 302 p.p. Illustrated throughout. Jacket lightly rubbed. Boards clean. Spine ends bruised, but otherwise a near fine copy. A humorous memoir by Tom Davis, one of the original writers of Saturday Night Live. More
The Comedy of Bristo, or The Pimp (Comedia Do Fanchono Ou De Bristo)
Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1990. Soft cover. 8vo. Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation 20. Soft cover. 126 p.p. The first English version of a 16th century play by Portuguese author and lawyer Antonio de Ferreira. More
Mr. Faithful: A Comedy in Three Acts
London: Samuel French, 1935. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 18mo. French's Acting Edition, No. 1779. Orig. green wrappers. 102 pp, [4] pp. B&W line drawings of set layouts. Slight sunning to spine and edges of wrappers. Otherwise about fine. More
The Medicine MAD
New York: Warner Books, 1977. Soft cover. 4" x 7" Paperback. Unpaginated. B&W illustrations. Light wear to joints and bumping to corners. Age toning to pages. More
The Old Debauches. A Comedy (1732)
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The Augustan Reprint Society Number 258. Orig. tan card wrappers, sewn and glued. xiv, [4], 40. Fine. More
A Yard of Sun: A Summer Comedy
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth boards, gilt titling to spine. Rubbing to spine ends, corners and top and tail edges. Dust jacket lightly bumped at edges and sunned at spine. Ink ownership inscription to FFEP. This is the long awaited Summer Commedy that complete's..... More
Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce!
New York: Random House, 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. 8vo. Full blue paper boards. Boards are stained. First signature loose with separation to inner hinge at p. 21. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, edge worn. More
Rubber Balls and Liquor
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2012. Gottfried, Gilbert. First Ediition. Soft cover. 8vo (small). SIGNED with inscription to title page. vii, 272 pp.In a Custom Graphic Slipcase. With illustrations and Clip n' Save jokes throughout. Covers and interior clean. A fine copy. Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022) was an American stand-up comedian..... More
The Diary of a Nobody
London: Folio Society, 1969. John Lawrence. Hardcover. 8vo (crown). Yellow illustrated cloth, 165pp, illustrated. Fine in publisher's slipcase. The Diary of a Nobody Originally Appeared in Punch. The Diary records the daily events in the lives of a London clerk, Charles Pooter, his wife Carrie, his son William Lupin, and..... More
Monty Python: The Case Against Irreverence, Scurrility, Profanity, Vilification, and Licentious Abuse
New York: Grove Press, 1981. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Soft cover. 96 pp. B&W illustrations. Some toning to covers, else fine. More
Cartoon Annual #2
New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1955. Soft cover. 12mo. Paperback. 128 pp. B&W illustrations. Light patches of wear to spine and edges, creasing to covers, a few small stains. Foxing to edges of text block. Staining to edges of interior of covers. A new collection of the best cartoons by..... More
Dollars to Doughnuts: A Farce in Three Acts
New York: Samuel French Inc., 1934. Soft cover. 12mo. Original blue paper wraps. Stapled and glued binding. 88 p.p. B&W illustration of stage set up. Creasing to covers, sunning to spine. The Boland daughter, Caroline, is bringing a prospect home - George, who does not approve of wealth. So the..... More
North Korean Sexual Deviance Manual
Middletown, DE: Kim Wel Hung, 2018. Soft cover. 8vo. Illustrated covers, 43pp, illustrated with humorous images. Fine. More