NY: Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The New Yorker's inimitable Addams cartoons of what begot the 1960's television series, The Addams Family, then a movie, and then a Broadway musical. An apparently unused copy. Near fine in near fine unclipped dw with one short closed tear bottom edge front..... More
Roma: Umoristi del "Marc'Aurelio" 1935. 4th Edition. Soft cover. Compilation of humorous verse by Cavaliere that was published in Marc'Aurelio, an Italian satirical magazine, published between 1931 and 1958 (and briefly resurrected in 1973). It was the first satirical magazine in Italy following the forced closure of other satirical magazines..... More
NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Early humour from author Irwin, with 17 illustrations in duotone by Pontin. An American's view of Paris in the 1920s. Blue cloth in scarce dustjacket that is browned at edges and more so at spine, and missing a few small pieces at..... More
Cleveland: The David Gibson Company, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce memoir/ travelogue of a New Yorker gallivanting to all the swell places that swell people recreate in the capitals of Europe. Paper-backed boards with gilt titles and pictorial pastedown in color, 8vo, 196p. Spine a wee shaken, and worn about..... More
Bostoin: John W. Luce and Company, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A satirical almanac produced by the staff of the John W. Luce publishing company. The staff takes a kitchen sink approach: zodiac readings, gardening hints, bios of the rich and famous like Heddy Green and Teddy Roosevelt. Sophisticated illustrations. Cover..... More
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Subtitle: A COMPENDIUM OF A HALF CENTURY OF PRINCETON WIT AND HUMOR, IF ANY, IN PROSE, PICTURE AND POETRY. Limited to 1000 copies, 4to, black tight-weave linen, gilt titles in scarce pictorial dustjacket, which is moderately worn, book and internals almost..... More
Norwalk: Silvermine, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An unused copy in price-clipped dustjacket. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
privately printed, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Full title: A collection of epigrams presented in the expectation that the reader will recognize himself here with some amusement and occasional dismay. Privately printed in a limited edition for the friends of the Typographic Service Company of New York, a Division of the..... More