Humor from The Owl at the Bridge

"...the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Jeeves and his hapless charge Bertie Wooster... his ex-fiancée Pauline Stoker, her formidable father and the eminent loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop... Chuffy falls in love with Pauline and Bertie seems to be caught in flagrante... only Jeeves (whether employed or not) can simmer [the situation] down. 263 pages; nice quality paperback.… Ler mais sobre este item

192 pages. Very Good. Stock#ofc0031.

Trudeau deals with Zonk and tanning, steroids in sport, the Camp David peace negotiations, inequality of women's pay, and other issues of the 1970s. [124] pages, chiefly illustrations; 21 cm. Stock#20936.

Signet / New American Library [1962]. 'First Printing [thus], October, 1962'. Soft Cover. 546 p. "Tristram Shandy is an epic of eighteenth-century Yorkshire life, and perhaps the most capriciously written classic of all time. ...In the persons of Mr. Shanfy, retired merchant and student of philosophy, and of Uncle Toby, veteran of King William's War and a simple-minded sentimentalist,… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Greenough, Stebbins, & Hunt, 1807. Hard Cover. [viii], 220 pages, illus.; 19 cm. Title continues: "from Mrs. Testy In twelve dialogues." "1st American, from the 3rd London edition." Attributed to James Beresford. Shaw & Shoemaker 12107. This copy has bookplate of Brookline Social Library dated 1825. Early owner signature of Charles Wild, physician of Brookline. Bound in contemporary… Ler mais sobre este item

Foreword by Joseph Henry Jackson of the San Francisco Chronicle. Describes, in the current lingo, the life of the American soldier in Australia during WWII. Hardcover. 194 pages, black&white sketches throughout; 20 cm. Book is in Good condition but for a small brown stain at bottom of spine throughout; ink owner name on first flyleaf; dust jacket Poor-- scuffed, torn,… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia, E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1837. Spine title on printed paper label: Humourist. "E. G. Dorsey, printer, Library Street"-- verso of title-page. Twelve stories and poems. Contents (in part): Christmas; Songs of the Blacks-1. The new Jim Crow 2. A Nigger's Reason; Poetical Epistle from Amos Stokes, Esq., of Nashville, U. S., to Washington Nokes, Esq.,… Ler mais sobre este item

Novel, first published 1966. "The mad, macabre history of Howard W. Campbell, Jr." Paperback; xii, 192 pages; 18 cm. Stock#31442/h.

Farrar & Rinehart, NY [c1943]. First Edition. Hard Cover. [96] p., cartoons throughout, usually one to a page; 27.5 cm. "A mad and dissolute artist living like a bat in some ruined barn might easily account for this book and the two others that have preceded it, but it hasn't the charm for me of the idea that… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Livermore & Rudd, 1856. Hard Cover. [iii]-xxiv, 264 p., illus.; 19 cm. [10] pp. of publisher's ads at end. Comic history of the United States written in the style of Longfellow's Hiawatha. Stock#OB943. Good+, bound in publisher's stamped cloth, gold lettering and image on spine faded, top and bottom of spine torn, frayed.

Appears to be a gathering of snippets and fragments of things that Morley wrote or began. Signed on the flyleaf. Linen cloth foxed, spotted, spine irregularly indented; ink owner name inside front cover dated 1937; internally clean; Good. Stock#28055/h.

Hartford, Andrus, no date [1845?]. Frontispiece by John Leech. American Imprints 45-3559. First published in Punch in 1845; Andrus published a dated ediion in 1846. Mrs. Caudle's incessant petty lectures to her unfortunate husband, enacted in the matrimonial bed at close of each day when he is compelled to lie and listen. Hard Cover. 156 pages, front.; 15.5… Ler mais sobre este item

'First Edition'. "A new collection of drawings of male and female animals including the human." Hardcover. xi, [2], 14-208 pages, index. Dust jacket clipped, top edge rolls out with small tears; edges foxed, ink inscription; Good+. stock#24699/h.

St. Louis, Mo. : Specialist Pub. Co., c1929.. Hard Cover. 31 p. : illus. ; 16 cm. "Fifth printing." Back when humorous monologues were delivered by traveling comedians and outhouses were common among rural folk, this story of told by "Lem Putt" a carpenter specializing in privies would have wowed 'em. Stock# 44,290. Vg / no dj.

New York, Carleton, M DCCC LXVI [1866]. Hard Cover. 300, 8 p.; 19 cm. Robert Henry Newell's humorous pieces on the Civil War appeared during the period 1863-1865. The Union he called the Mackerel Brigade, and he had great fun with all aspects of the war, even Lee's surrender to Grant. Stock#OB140. Vg, two short tears on title page,… Ler mais sobre este item

"First Delta Printing". "Vonnegut does what he does with a peculiar genius, invoking the lighter side of catastrophe." Soft Cover. 6 leaves, 243 pages; 21 cm.; Very Good. Stock#31436/h.

Lincoln, Nebraska, Centennial Press, 1976. Soft Cover. 48 p. 'Ahftah the Bawhston Tea Potty, the Waw of Independence stotted and Ameriker was Bawn.' Each page has a photograph and a 'definition'. Stock#24993. Vg/paper.

New York, George H. Doran, 1924. A collection of ten stories, about golf in English society, previously published in magazines. This is the first American issue. The title of the first story, "The Clicking of Cuthbert," was used for the entire book in Great Britain. Hard Cover. ix pages, 2 leaves, 15-330 pages; 21 cm. Spine… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855. Hard Cover. 80 leaves of plates, each printed on recto only, each protected by tissue; 30 cm. Largely set in Italy, where Austria held military control of Venice. First published 1854. Caricatures in the vein of Punch, of which Doyle had been one of its earliest contributing artists, making fun of travelers on The… Ler mais sobre este item

Lunenburg, Vt., Printed at the Stinehour Press, 1970]. Hard Cover. 47 p. illus. 23 cm. "An exhibition held jointly by the American Antiquarian Society ... [and others] in March, 1970." "For forty-five years he had the wit and competence to translate the foibles of his fellow [Americans] into lively images." Iscribed by the author to Stuart Sherman. Stock# 44,014.… Ler mais sobre este item