Humor from Cat's Cradle Books

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1903. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Pictorial cloth over boards is shelf worn with overall light soiling, darkened spine, wear to corner tips. ; Writings by early California humorist George Horatio Derby (1823-1861). Ex-Library; Drawings; 7.75" tall… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. DJ is tanned with light edge wear. ; Collection by American poet and humorist Ogden Nash (1902-1971). ; 8.0" tall; 169 pages.

New York: Celadon Books, 2020. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine with no dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Signed by both authors on front endpaper preceding half title page. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Pictorial paper over boards is clean with minor shelf wear. ; Cartoons by comedian Steve Martin and New Yorker cartoonist Harry… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Louis D. Fancher. Binding holding but front hinge is cracked. Pages clean, tanned. Pictorial cloth over boards is tanned, with overall shelf wear and light edgewear. ; Satire by American humorist with art nouveau illustrations. 7.25" tall; 108 pages.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, lightly tanned pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing and shelf wear. ; Collection of Thurber's stories, articles, essays, drawings, and reflections on criminal actions. 8.5" tall; 208 pages.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Soundbinding and hinges. Pages foxed and lightly soiled around edges, visible when closed; pages of text are clean, off-white. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ tanned, foxed, with some edgewear, minor soiling, and clipped corner. ; 128 poems by American… Read more about this item

New York: Workman Publishing, 2008. First Printing. Softcover. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. First Printing. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have no evidence of wear. ; Guide to how the extremely wealthy people live in America. ; 9.25" tall; 247 pages.

New York: Grove Press, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing, light overall shelf wear. Geographical index not included. Many limericks, most with erotic, bawdy, sexual tone, with commentary by British novelist Norman Douglas (1868-1952). Originally published in 1928.… Read more about this item

Potsdam, NY: Wallace Stevens Society, Inc, 2003. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Iain Jacobs. Square, tight binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Contents: Altieri, Intentionality as sensuality in Harmonium. Eeckhout, A translator's experience with the transformations of Wallace Stevens' poetry. Harrison, Wallace Stevens and the Noh tradition. Clippinger, Breaking against… Read more about this item

Oneonta, NY: State University of New York, 1968. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, slightly tanned. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Contents: Political satire on Communist Europe and Latin America. Feinberg, Political satire in Communist Europe. Fox, Topaze: barometer of Chilean politics. Bogen, Blake's "Island in the Moon"… Read more about this item

Bogotá: El Áncora Editores, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Book is in the Spanish language. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed with slightly heavier wear at bottom of spine. DJ has light overall shelf wear. ; Anthology of humorous writings by Colombian author… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Thomas Rap, 1994. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Dutch language. Square, sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear. Book by Dutch comedian and writer Joseph Jacobus Maria "Youp" van 't Hek (1954- ). 7.75" tall; 127 pages.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Third Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has slight fading at spine with light edge wear and overall light shelf wear. ; Texan writer-storyteller's portraits of people in the old Southwest. ;… Read more about this item

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1994. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. Study of humor in literature as political discourse. Focuses on six novels: Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent, Wyndham Lewis's Apes of God, Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, Doris Lessing's… Read more about this item

N.p.: No Publisher Listed, 1950. Ephemera. Good+ with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Stan Wyatt. No publication date; 1950s. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, age-darkened. Wraps have light handling wear, age darkening. ; Light hearted history and description of Shanks Village, which was established in 1946 at then-closed Fort Shanks, Orangeburg, NY, as a place to house… Read more about this item

New York: John Lane Company, 1910. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with wear to corner tips, overall shelf wear and light soiling. ; Humorous story of a British couple's hospitality to an American couple. ; 7.0" tall; 79 pages.

Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1985. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated by Marv Rubin. Book is in the French language. Sound binding, clean and off-white pages. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Translation of Greenburg's "How to Make Yourself Miserable." ; Drawings; 7.0" tall; 159 pages.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has general light shelf wear, edge rubbing, with clipped corner. Approximately 96 pp., unpaginated. ; Color cartoon drawings with… Read more about this item

København: Borgens Forlag, 1951. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is written in the Danish language. Square, tight binding, clean but age-darkened pages, no writing or marks. Pictorial wraps have general shelf wear with light edge wear. Jokes, stories, and other material useful at public celebrations and in public speaking. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 64 pages.… Read more about this item

München: Georg Müller, 1916. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the German language using Fraktur. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed and soiled with heavier wear at top and bottom of spine. ; Writings by German humorist Karl Ettlinger (pseud. Karlchen, 1882-1939). ; 7.5" tall; 138 pages. … Read more about this item