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Album du journal Spirou 148e

By: N/A

Price: $42.90

Publisher: Paris, Dupuis: 1978

Seller ID: Books003843

Binding: Illustrated boards

Condition: Very Good

Contains issues 2073 - 2085, previous owner's name to ffep. edges of rear board worn, text in French.
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Album du journal Spirou 158e

By: N/A

Price: $35.75

Publisher: Paris, Dupuis: 1981

Seller ID: Books003849

Binding: Illustrated boards

Condition: Very Good

Contains issues 2203 - 2215, previous owner's name to ffep. edges of rear board worn, text in French.
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Fun, And Flirtation, Forfeits : intended for evening amusement

By: N/A

Price: $250.25

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1866

Seller ID: Books009887

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

viii, [3], 12-96 pages. Stated on printed title page: "New edition, with coloured illustrations" i.e.: colour frontispiece and colour title page. One of Warne's Bijou Books. No stated date of issue. 3.8 x 2.7 inches; all edges gilded. Professionally stabilized: loose signatures tightened and front endpaper re-hinged. 79 short humorous role-play scenes.
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The Making of a Magazine: A Tour Through the Vast Organization of The New Yorker

By: N/A

Price: $749.38

Publisher: New York, New Yorker: 1926

Seller ID: Books010639

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

[44] pages. Professionally rebacked with paper spine replaced to style; front endpaper repaired, rear endpaper replaced. Former owner's pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Attractive and sound.
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The Ghosts of My Friends

By: N/A

Price: $573.75

Publisher: New York, Frederick A Stokes:

Seller ID: Books012848

Condition: Very Good

No stated date of issue: 1907 or earlier. Front and rear free endpapers, frontispiece, title page, and 39 leaves each of which bears a different inscription. Five leaves have been excized and are not present. Cloth rubbed and spotted; light offsetting to free endpapers. Old ownership signature to front free endpaper beneath which a bookseller's small ticket: M.T Bird & Co, Boston. The signatures are varied and successfully rendered, dating from 1907 through 1911; a few note the town/city: Halifax and Liverpool N.S., Boston and a few other MA locations, Bloomingdale OH. The only inscriber to no...
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Hark! A Vagrant [signed]

By: Beaton, Kate

Price: $78.65

Publisher: Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly: 2011

Seller ID: Books008953

ISBN: 1770460608

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

168 pages. First hardcover edition: September 2011 [stated], with full number line. Slight ding to upper corner of rear panel. Author's signature on bookplate on front endpaper. Else clean and unmarked.
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The Book of Ballads AND Firmilian The Student of Badajoz: A Spasmodic Tragedy

By: Bon Gaultier; Theodore Martin; T. Percy Jones [William Edmondstoune Aytoun]

Price: $321.75

Publisher: New York, W. J. Widdleton:

Seller ID: Books010150

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

216; 165 pages and two leaves of ads at rear. Publisher's green cloth with bevelled boards; gilt to front and spine; brown slate endpapers. Extremities rubbed; no inscriptions; binding sound. Spanish Ballads, American Ballads, Miscellaneous Ballads; and Aytoun's parody of the Spasmodics. No stated date of issue [c. 1875]; verso of Firmilian title page gives an extract from the North British Review for September 1866.
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Laughing Their Way. Women's Humor in America

By: Bruere, Martha Bensley and Mary Ritter Beard

Price: $64.35

Publisher: New York, The MacMillan Company: 1934

Seller ID: Books008138

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xv, 295pp. spine sunned
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Logical Nonsense: The Works Of Lewis Carroll

By: Carroll, Lewis. Philip C. Blackburn and Lionel White, eds.

Price: $825.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1934

Seller ID: Books010847

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xiii, 568 pages. Full leather stamped in gilt. An edition printed on Strathmore Permanent rag paper limited to 125 copies signed by the editors; this copy curiously numbered "L". leather rubbed at head and foot of spine; faint pencil inscription to green front free endpaper; front hinge split but entirely sturdy; small dot of stain at gutter of 5 preliminary leaves. Overseas customers please request an accurate shipping quote.
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The Colossal Computer Cartoon Book

By: David H. Ahl ed.

Price: $61.88

Publisher: Morristown, NJ, Creative Computing Press: 1977

Seller ID: Books010574

ISBN: 0916688062

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

viii, 120 pages. Moderate wear to covers, small chip off base of spine. "Return to..." name top right first leaf. Split between pp. 44/45. Tan semi circular stain to pp. 51- 58. First printing stated, June 1977. An interesting collection of early computer humour, with 36 artists represented. Great R. Crumb rear cover T.V.-hating advert for Creative Computing.
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How to be Oxbridge: A Bluffer's Handbook

By: Gill, Anton

Price: $55.00

Publisher: London, Grafton / Collins: 1985

Seller ID: Books010470

ISBN: 0246124326

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xii, 230 pages. Unobtrusive gift inscription top right front free endpaper [the light blue endpapers feature a map of black lines: the inscription is in black]. Else unmarked, in sound binding and unclipped jacket.
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The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin: 1907-1937, Volume 1 Trans. by Michael Farr

By: Goddin, Philippe

Price: $75.63

Publisher: San Francisco, Last Gasp: 2008

Seller ID: Books011412

ISBN: 0867197633

Binding: Hard Cover, illus. boards

Condition: Very Good

207pp.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

By: Hegan, Alice Caldwell

Price: $103.13

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1911

Seller ID: Books011863

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

153 pages. Canadian issue, in uncommon jacket chipped and rubbed at extremities. Hinges split to mull but holding. Sunday School inscription to first leaf.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

By: Hegan, Alice Caldwell

Price: $103.13

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1902

Seller ID: Books011864

Binding: limp leather

Condition: Very Good

153 pages. Canadian issue, in limp suede with author's name in cursive along spine and pictorial image and title on front similar to the cloth design. Suede ties are complete and the binding sound. Light soiling and chipping to first leaf, with Christmas 1902 inscription.
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Pogo

By: Kelly, Walt

Price: $103.13

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1951

Seller ID: Books011738

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

182 pages. Former owner's signature top right of first two leaves - else unmarked. Light rubbing to edges; no spine crease. First issue of the first Pogo in book form, in excellent condition.
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The Collective Unconscience of Odd Bodkins

By: O'Neill Dan

Price: $34.38

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Glide Publications: 1973

Seller ID: Books011101

ISBN: 9120783329

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Good

unpaginated, corners slightly dog earred, covers have light wear
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The "Minotaur" Monthly Moocher [Vol. 1, Nos. 1-7.] [Royal Navy]

By: Pears, Edmund R.; Frederick W.I. Airey; Frank H. Peyton

Price: $4,812.50

Publisher: Holborn, Photo Litho by C.F. Kell: 1880

Seller ID: Books011849

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good

[4], 88 pages. Linen backed boards; with title to front. The seven issues paged continuously; likely all published. Lithographed from handwriting. Pears and Peyton are listed as Midshipmen, and Airey as Clerk by autumn 1877 on HMS Minotaur [Admiralty Navy List]. This was another kick at the can, as the Editorial explains: "Months ago... a weekly journal was established entitled the "Minotaur Moocher", which after running through two or three numbers, came to a stand....And it is that journal which is now rising again...". Vol.1 No.1: October 1879 through Vol.1 No.7: April 1880. OCLC notes only...
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Tintin Et Moi. Entretiens avec Herge.

By: Sadoul, Numa

Price: $48.13

Publisher: Tournai, Belgium, Casterman: 1975

Seller ID: Books010572

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

159 pages. Bookseller's stamp to front free endpaper, else clean and unmarked.Text in French.
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The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments

By: Thurber, James

Price: $235.95

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1932

Seller ID: Books009690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First printing of first edition. Rubbing and light soiling to covers. Textblock edges foxed and light foxing within. Binding sound, hinges secure, former owner's signature to front free endpaper. Remarkably the tissue band at rear remains tipped-in from top, with the $2 in "Give the nice man (or nice lady) $2 and get..." has been blacked out.
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Son of the Martini Cookbook

By: Trahey, Jane and Darren Pierce

Price: $137.50

Publisher: New York, Clovis Press: 1967

Seller ID: Books011768

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Unpaged. Covers rubbed and unevenly sunned. Offsetting to endpapers; contents otherwise clean; no inscriptions; binding sound.
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Category: Humour