1st ed., 8vo, yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 247 [1] pp.
Charles Brackett practiced law for several years before being hired as drama critic at The New Yorker, on the strength of his short stories for The Saturday Evening Post and his second novel, Week-End. He left New York to work as a Hollywood screenwriter, and had his greatest success in a long-running collaboration with Billy Wilder, including Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend and Sunset Blvd. “Entirely Surrounded” is a humorous novel about nineteen-thirties New Yorkers who holiday in Vermont. Many of the characters are stand-in... View More...
1st ed., 16mo, ¼ cloth, illustrated boards. undated; circa 1910. Scarce adult title by the popular children’s book author/illustrator. Illustrated verses on a variety of subjects where people ‘get the hook.’ No copies on the net, only three in OCLC. A fair-good copy: heavily rubbed on corners, moderate surface wear, small ink mark on back cover. Text block clean and unmarked but lightly shaken at hinges. View More...
1st ed., oblong 4to, ½ green cloth, illustrated boards. Briggs’ classic work on the joys and frustrations of the sport, most of which had been previously published in the New York Herald-Tribune. Very good: Externally very clean with rubbed corners, edges; spine a bit loose; front hinge lightly cracked. Interior clean and bright with no foxing. Notoriously prone to wear, a very nice copy. View More...
FULL TITLE: A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution, and Containing Much Useful Information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; As Well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an Account of the Late MR. Berry's Method of Killing and His Working List of Drops; To Which Is Added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and Certain Other Items of Interest; All Very Proper to Be Read and Kept in Every Family
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New York: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1929. First Edition. 16mo; Black cloth with printed spine label. 129pp + hangm... View More...
. 1st ed., 8vo, ¼ yellow cloth/batiked boards. Unpaginated. The artist’s first book of theatrical and literary caricatures - following a two-year stint drawing for Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. Dozens of caricatures of American and British celebrities from the 1920s. Four color plates, 6 b/w plates, the remaining caricatures in black and white line drawings. Introduction by Carl van Vechten. Near fine in poor d/w. Corners lightly rubbed, lightly soiled at spine ends. The very scarce d/w is split in half with a 1.5” open tear at top of spine and numerous closed tears and chips along edges. View More...
1946 reprint of a book first issued in 1924. 8vo illustrated wrappers. 130 pp. A collection of minstrel gags, jokes, and speeches 'adapted to the use of amateurs and professionals.' Fine copy; no chips or tears - mild age-toning to the news pulp pages. View More...
A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions, interesting either from historical associations or quaintness of wording (2 Vols.).
Edinburgh: privately printed by E & G Goldsmid 1885-86. 12vo. 54; 48pp; Limited to 275 copies. head and tail-pieces, title-pages printed in red and black. One of 275 small paper copies (total edition of 350). Printed parchment paper wrappers. A two-volume compilation of graveyard epitaphs. Condition: Good; covers soiled and toned, that of volume I chipped and partially split at spine. Interior clean and bright overall, with soiling to half-title and title page of vo... View More...
London, Mills & Boon. 1909, 1st Edition. Small 4to, illustrated boards, cloth spine. 132 pp. A humorous account of the “Follies”, the London theatrical phenomenon that was a blend of Vaudeville and the Folies Bergere. “ Songs, Dance, Reciatations…” “With a New Song by H.G. Pelissier.” b/w photos and illustrations by Geoffrey Holme and others. Pasted to the front end paper is a letterhead for the Follies, with manuscript note signed by H.G. Pelissier, the song writer and eventual producer. “ Dear Mr. Lloyd, / I have now taken over the above company -- performers in period costume -- Do you th... View More...
3 pcs. Re: setting up a London engagementLouard-Bruce -1 Sept 62: "All well here. Fagots [sic], jews, fascists, negros, Europeans, and other friends of Peter Cook flock in nightly. Your name has become something of a legend since you left -- Tynan and other critics use it as a term of refernce [sic] in their articles: i.e. "This actors genitals bear little comparison with those of Mr. Bruce." Louard-Bruce 28 Sept 1962. "Baby, I just cannot bargain over this. A six week season….I'm offering 2-1/2 times what you got before." On the reverse side are Bruce's copious holographic notes for a res... View More...
1st ed., 8vo. Presentation edition, ¼ calf with decorated paper board. Gilt titles on spine with four raised bands. T.E.G. in cloth slipcase./////This profusely illustrated memoir by the two-time Pulitzer Prize cartoonist depicts life as a World War II veteran and includes commentary about the "red scare", Franco and Fascism, Zionism and more. Our understanding is that this is a publisher's presentation copy; the 1948 date on the spine suggests it may have been specially bound after the official publication date of Oct. 31, 1947, which was time to coincide with the book's release for the Book-... View More...
2 Sample Books, 13"x10"; cards mostly 4.25x5.5 in folded form.34, 36 greeting cards in each1945-1948 – humorous greeting cards, many depicting the misogyny and racial stereotypes of the period. Artists not identified; Birthday, Get Well, Graduation, Congratulations, Xmas. In the form of two photograph albums, two-post, decorated burgundy covers, black paper pages, with two cards mounted per page. Condition: individual cards range from Good with occasional folds and creases to Fine – mostly the latter. The album is fair only with extensive exterior wear, creases and tears to some of the pages ... View More...
1st ed., 8vo, iii-322 pp., 29 plates, 4 in color and 126 b/w illustrations in the text. A very clean copy; inscribed by the author on fep. André Gill (17 October 1840 – 1 May 1885) Gill was the most popular and important French caricaturist of his time, known today mostly for his work for the weekly four-sheet satirical newspapers La Lune and L’Eclipse from 1865 to 1876. Waging war against the monarchy with his cartoons, he also became involved in the Paris Commune, illustrating for Jules Vallès' socialist paper, La Rue. Between 1868 and 1873 more than 60 of his cartoons were censored or sup... View More...
1st ed., 8vo, illustrated boards. 184 pp. 160 full-page single-panel cartoons satirizing the capitalist upper class from a socialist perspective, reprinted from the Daily Worker where they ran as a feature from 1933-1935. Illustrated end papers satirizing K-Q cards in red and blue and title-page in red & black. Afterword, "Social Satire" by the cartoonist. "Subscription Edition" published in December, 1935; also published in a numbered edition of 500 copies. Very good-near fine; a clean tight copy with only very minor edgewear, small scuff on front board. Lacking the scarce d/w as usual. View More...
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