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Nights with Armour [SIGNED]

By: Armour, Richard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: (c.1958)

Seller ID: 6976

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[some wear at heel of spine, bottom corners lightly bumped, otherwise a nice clean copy with a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown; jacket has some edge/corner wear,a bit rubbed, front flap vertically creased]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep with a generic inscription ("All good wishes"). More "Lighthearted Light Verse." Signed by Author
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My Life With Women: Confessions of a Domesticated Male

By: Armour, Richard

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Mcgraw-Hill Book Company: 1968

Seller ID: 12903

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [good solid copy, light soiling to bottom edge; jacket shows minor edgewear, some diagonal creasing at corners of both flaps]. "Starting with the girl next door, who taught him the difference between the sexes when he was eight years old, [the author] tells of his troubles with women in high school, in college, and ever since. Armour was never the Great Lover. He was the Great Loser. Much as they may boast in public, many men will identify with him and laugh through their tears or cry through their laughter. It seemed impossible that this Utter Failure would ever marry....
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Armour's Almanac; or, Around the Year in 365 Days [SIGNED]

By: Armour, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: (c.1962)

Seller ID: 24407

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light wear to book's lower extremities, otherwise clean and tight; jacket lightly insect-nibbled along bottom edges of both flaps, a few tiny nicks at top and bottom edges of front panel, modest chipping at top of rear panel (no loss of text)]. (cartoon drawings) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "For ____ ___ / with best wishes / Richard Armour." "Emulating Phileas Fogg, who went around the world in 80 days, [the author] has gone around the year in 365 days, each one marked by some unforgettable event in history." A randomly-chosen example: "On June 4, 107...
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How to Speak Spanish with a Case of Beer in Mexico [SIGNED]

By: Barbolla, Andrew M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, CyntoMedia Corporation: 2004

Seller ID: 24425

ISBN: 1585010839

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[very slight dog-earing to bottom corner of rear cover]. Trade PB (pen and ink drawings) Humorously INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "If you're planning to travel to Mexico in the near future, this guide will become your best. Using the premise of a drinking game, [the book] provides a hilarious yet pragmatic set of exercises for learning to speak Spanish and having a good time south of the border. Lessons in pronunciation, verbs, prepositions and other traditional topics are followed by anecdotes written in dialogue, to illustrate usage. A laugh-out-loud, fun way ...
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Dear Animated Bust: Letters to Lady Juliet Duff, France 1915-1918

By: Baring, Maurice

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Wilton, Salisbury, U.K., Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd.: 1981

Seller ID: 20789

ISBN: 0-85955-086-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[no siginficant wear to book, light spotting/foxing to edges of text block, one-time owner's name on ffep; jacket lightly rubbed, with faint soiling]. Letters home from a Royal Flying Corps staff officer stationed on the Western Front during World War I -- eccentric, whimsical, and sometimes just plain weird, written as "a civilising distraction from the mental and physical discomforts of the war, written to someone who may have missed a good deal of the subtleties, but who has done us all the favour of fostering the flow." (This someone, Lady Juliet Duff, is described in the book's ...
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Four Children for the Doctor

By: Barkins, Evelyn

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick Fell, Inc.: (c.1955)

Seller ID: 16547

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

(price-clipped) [minor shelfwear, top corners slightly bumped, light dust-soiling to top edge, a touch of fading to cloth at top of spine, small bookstore stamp at bottom corner of front pastedown; jacket shows general wear at edges, small tears at a couple of corners, soiling to rear panel, spine title quite faded]. The author got a lot of literary mileage out of her experiences as "the glamorous young wife of a busy Westchester physician," this being her fourth book about the having and raising of his kids. In this one, her pregnancy with #4 occasions much concern and attention from...
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At a Venture

By: Bennett, Charles A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1924

Seller ID: 17449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[solid copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, dust-soiling and rubbing to red topstain; jacket has numerous chips (especially at spine, including loss of most of book title), and is split at rear hinge, but front panel is substantially complete and still attractive]. (20 full-page line drawings) Humorous essays by "a philosopher by profession, a humorist by nature, a New Englander by residence, an Oxford man by education, and an Irishman by birth." (That's just one guy, not five.) The author's "topics range from the jazz orchestra of the future to the next war."
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I, Billy Shakespeare!

By: Blatty, William Peter

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1965

Seller ID: 22405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy with no discernible wear; jacket very clean and attractive, with a short closed tear and associated creasing at top of spine]. (line drawings) "A wildly amusing first-person narrative (from tapes) by a phantom William Shakespeare, in which the Bard of Avon's ghost discusses many things -- particularly the charges that he didn't write the plays. He demolishes Marlowe, the Baconian Society, Ben Jonson, and others. He also proves, for some readers, that Queen Elizabeth was the real playwright." Blatty's third (and scarcest) book.
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The Book of Jonah, Newly Revised

By: Blechman, R.O.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang: 1997

Seller ID: 17515

ISBN: 1-55670-548-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, no discernible wear to book; tiny scrape to jacket near bottom right-hand corner]. (cartoon sketches) The eccentric cartoonist's re-imagining of the story of Jonah (including the Whale episode).
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Maggie of the Suicide Fleet; as written from the log of Raymond D. Borden, Lieutenant, U.S.N.R.

By: Buranelli, Prosper

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1930

Seller ID: 15274

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderately shelfworn book, light bumping to bottom corners, spine slightly turned; jacket edgeworn, a little browned at spine, worn at spine ends, one tiny chip at bottom of front panel, small tears with very minor paper loss at front corners]. (line drawings) The true story, more or less, of the U.S.S. Margaret, the most notorious ("the worst," in the author's words) of the many private vessels that were pressed into service for submarine patrol by the U.S. Navy during World War I. A former pleasure yacht, the Maggie "was an old, old lady, never built to go out of sight of land...
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The Whimsey Report; or, Sex Isn't Everything

By: Cummings, Parke

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1948

Seller ID: 15174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[lightly bumped at several corners, stray pencil smudge on fore-edge, contemporary gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; jacket shows a bit of wear at extremities, minor tears and dog-earing along top edge, light soiling, browing at flap edges, short diagonal crease at top corner of front flap]. (cartoon illustrations) Humorous "survey" of human behavior, in which the author and his crack team of researchers (a Professor Tewksbury of State University -- which state, the author never found out -- and Al, a guy recruited at a local tavern) discovered "that men sweep crumbs under...
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Handies and Footsies

By: Dunn, Bob

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Co.: (c.1936)

Seller ID: 14402

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

[worn but intact copy, small piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front cover and first few pages, small tear at top of front cover (also extending slightly into first few pages), pages browned with age but not brittle; one-time owner's name and date in pencil at top inside front cover]. (cartoon drawings) Wacky cartoon drawings illustrating a sort of variant form of charades, in this case focused exclusively on acting out "familiar phrases and popular sayings," e.g.: "Hip, Hip, Hooray"; "Shuffle Off to Buffalo"; "Starting from Scratch"; you get the ide...
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Lady Addle at Home

By: Dunn, Mary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1945

Seller ID: 20900

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [some wear and fading to cloth at base of spine, top corners bumped, light general wear, faint bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.)]. (B&W photographs) The second (of two) Lady Addle books, gently satirical faux memoirs in which the fictional Lady Blanche Addle (née Coot), daughter of the 13th Earl of Coot, gushingly details the utterly mundane details of her utterly uninteresting life as a member of the British upper crust, with the humor (and the book really is quite funny) arising from Lady A's obliviousnes...
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It's a Living: A Personalized Collection of Jewish Humor

By: Feder, Mark

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Bloch Publishing Company: 1948

Seller ID: 21390

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very light shelfwear to book, spine just slightly turned; jacket shows some wear along top and bottom edges, minor paper loss at top of spine, tiny closed tear at bottom of front panel]. (pen and ink drawings) "This is not a joke book," states the author in his Preface. "I prefer to call it a personalized collection of anecdotes and experiences directly related to my work as an itinerant story-teller." The author had a syndicated newspaper column called "Live & Laugh," and from about the time this book was published until 1972 he served as the drama director of the ...
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Gorey Cats Paper Dolls

By: Gorey, Edward

Price: $30.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Troubador Press: (c.1982)

Seller ID: 24053

ISBN: 0898440866

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, completely intact; minimal handling wear, but the title page is a bit discolored due to a laid-in obituary of Gorey from the L.A. Times]. (pen and ink drawings) "From the inimitable artistry of Edward Gorey: cats, costumes and scenes from his most popular books. Dress the cats, display them and act out your favorite story. Endless days of creative fantasy and fun." Like cats themselves.
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The Blue Aspic

By: Gorey, Edward

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Meredith Press: (c.1968)

Seller ID: 24558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[quite a nice copy, with just a touch of wear at spine ends (both book and jacket), non-authorial gift inscription to "Ray" from "Spec" on ffep; the jacket also has a couple of teensy-weensy closed tears at top of front panel, effectively rendered invisible (and protected from future expansion) by a new mylar jacket cover]. (pen and ink drawings) "An opera book without libretto or score, which nevertheless portrays the tragedy of unrequited love, the peril of fame, the intrigue of backstage life, the nefarious scheming of the very rich, and a profound moral."
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The Young Lust Reader

By: Griffith, Bill, and Jay Kinney, comp.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Francisco, And/Or Press: 1974

Seller ID: 22685

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[nice clean copy, minor edgewear, short closed tear at bottom edge of rear cover]. Trade PB (comic strip and cartoon illustrations) Unexpurgated reprint of the first three issues of the legendary "underground romance comic" devoted to the titular emotion and its related activities, "with additional revelatory text by Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney," who between them wrote and/or illustrated much of the content. Not for sale to minors.
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Famous Fimmales With Odder Ewents From Heestory

By: Gross, Milt

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1928

Seller ID: 16552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [a decent copy, shelfwear to bottom edge, binding cracking in middle of book, top front corner bumped, spine darkened and a bit soiled]. (cartoon drawings) Not-quite-Yiddish versions of the lives and exploits of Halan from Troy, Lady Godiwa, Loocritchia Borgia, etc., along with "heestorical" accounts of other episodes, e.g. "How It Got Inwanted Tenksgeeving Day," "An Antidote from De Bustun Tippotty," etc. Effrytink you knowed iss ronk.
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Me and Bad Eye and Slim: The Diary of a Buck Private [SIGNED]

By: Harvey, Bartle M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: (n.p.), From the Press of Chas. F. Davis: 1932

Seller ID: 22860

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(no dust jacket) [front hinge cracked, several corners bumped, slight fading to spine cloth, old bookseller's rubber stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith, Acres of Books)]. (B&W cartoon illustrations) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the second front endpaper: "Best wishes / Conrad [or possibly "Comrade"] E.W. Gilliland / "Buckshot" 4-14-32." [See note.] Putatively humorous account, in diary format, of a young recruit's experiences in World War I. The author strives for a vernacular sort of narrative voice, but fortunately doesn't go overboard with it; a lo...
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The Laughing Willow: Verses and Pictures

By: Herford, Oliver

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: (c.1918)

Seller ID: 18829

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light wear to edges of paper-covered boards, minor soiling to top page edges; jacket has one tiny chip at top of front panel, water-staining along spine and near bottom right corner of front panel, short closed tear at top of rear panel]. pen & ink drawings) "To see the Kaiser's Epitaph / would make a weeping willow laugh." Humorous doggerel by the writer/illustrator sometimes referred to as "the American Oscar Wilde," much of it thematically related to World War I ("The Air Raid"; "Marching to Berlin"; "The Touching Ballad of General von Beers"; etc.)...
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Category: Humor