Search Results: Humor, Cartoons, Satire from Bookfever.com, IOBA

Bloomington, IN: : 1st Books Library, , (2002.). SIGNED first edition -. INSCRIBED on the title page 'for.... always look for the laughter in life.' and dated in 2003. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy). First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. Described as humor/memoir/novella on the cover, this is the story of Frankie Crooks, a down-to-earth Italian kid from Greenwich village who is torn between two worlds - the mob and law enforcement - because he has a brother in both. By a stand-up comic, motivational speaker and adventurist...

New York:: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,, (1982.). First edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers (sunning to spine and edge of cover, crease on front cover).. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Black and white Doonesbury cartoons - political satire and commentary on the foibles of modern life. Unpaginated.

Washington, D.C.:: Institute for the Study of Man,, (1983). Hardcover -. Near fine in brown cloth, no dust jacket. . Reprint. Anecdotes about literary figures, actors, artists and more ( the last chapter is "religious revelling"), originally published in 1953. 183 pp.

New York:: George Braziller,, 1959.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tear in upper edge of dj.). First US printing. The first collaboration between these Atkinson and Searle, a look at the 'new poor' in the London of the 1950's. Taking Henry Mayhew's 19th century work 'London Labour and London Poor' as their guide, the writer and artist take a perceptive, compassionate and subtly humorous, look at how the burden of poverty has shifted into some surprising quarters - including a look at a literary exile, an aging actress, enclyopedia salesman, ice cream seller and more. Illustrated with many full-page pen and ink drawings by Searle and numerous vignettes. Slightly oversized format. 111 pp.

New York:: William H. Morrow,, (1990.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. "You can go back one more time, to catch up on some fresh stories, just like those heard around the coffepot at the Big Garage on Clear Shot, named for the local landmark where all Tom's characters get together from time to time. Romance runs rampant: Junkyard tycoon Argus Winslow and professional spinster Ruby McClay are about to tie the knot; vegetarian activist Tamara Dupree and holistic doctor Toby Tobias have joined forces to fight the good fight." Set in small town Alaska back when things seemed more simple. 300 pp.

New York:: Avon,, 1991.. First edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First US printing. An oversized trade paperback. A Gladys Babbington Morton mystery, illustrated with Baxter's very subtle and funny cartoons. Edward Gorey said that Baxter 'betrays all the ominous symptoms of genius.'

New York:: Random House,, (1961). Near fine in illustrated green wrappers (previous owner's name dated 1961). . Early printing, a trade paperback. Award-winning cartoonist's fourth book.

New York:: D. Appleton-Century, , 1938.. Hardcover -. Near fine in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, decoration on front cover, no dj (bookplate.). Later printing. The classic story of the fabulous voyagings, shipwreck, and remarkable adventures of two self-possessed and unflappable widows from the Midwest, who had been on their way to visit a son in Japan, when the steamship had a collision and had to be abandoned. An attractive edition with many black and white illustrations by George Richards, green and while illustrated endpapers, slightly larger than usual format. 290 pp.

Neuilly-sur-Seine & Montreal: : Dargaud Editeur & Dargaud Canada,, (1977.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards.. First edition. A story told in cartoons by this French comics author and movie director, best known as one of the leading authors in the more adult-oriented French comics scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Texte en francais (text in French) 60 pages de bandes dessinŽes en couleurs. Mise en couleur Johnny Coca. Couverture rigide.

London:: Herbert Jenkins,, (1958.). Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket. Appears unread.. Early printing. Although the copyright page states 'first published . . .1958' this is the reissue in the Autograph Edition, in blue boards, with plain printed salmon-colored wrappers. 222 pp.

Newport Beach, CA: Funny Books, (2007). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy red wrappers (as new, unread). First edition, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. A compilation of funny e-mails from debut authors Billie Jo Mouren and Gwen Anderson. INSCRIBED on the first page " To - - Laugh out Loud!" and dated. Includes over 300 colored prints and over 400 e-mails, index, 261 pp.

New York:: Plume (Penguin), , (2004.). Fine (a new copy). 1st trade paperback printing. All new stories commemorating individuals who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. Illustrated with cartoons. Index. 285 pp.

San Francisco:: Slave Labor Graphics,, 1995.. First edition -. Near fine in stiff wrappers (black line on bottom edge.). First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. Includes the first 6 issues of the comic book 'No Hope' (lifesyles of the poor and bored) plus other rare and unpublished comics, including the mini-comics 'Help' and 'Life Makes My Head Hurt.'

Kansas City: : Andrews and McMeel, , (1996). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Dilbert is "the comic strip for the downsizing, techno-talking workplace of the '90s. Cartoonist Scott Adams provides an outrageously fresh and farcical take on the work-a-day world and Dilbert's own pathetic life." Square format. 128 pp.

Los Angeles:: Price Stern Sloan,, (1972). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated stapled wrappers.. First printing. A slim book of cartoons about ecological catastrophe - although published 50 years ago, it is just as funny - or more accurately, not funny - now as it was then. They really are now carrying salmon upstream now to try and save them from extinction. Small square format, unpaginated (48 pp)

New York:: Beechhurst Press,, (1951). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in gray boards with red lettering on front cover (previous owners name on front endpaper), no dust jacket but the front cover is laid in.. First printing. Caricatures of the famous and infamous - from Harry Truman to Truman Capote, from writers to politicians to musicians, including Mao, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Durante, J. Edgar Hoover, Sartre, Faulkner, Bing Crosby, Sinatra, Stalin, Churchill, Dali, Mencken, Einstein, Hemingway, and more. Large format. 64 pp.

New York:: Rodney Publications,, 1968.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a very good dust jacket (gift inscription, some tears to upper edge of dj.). First printing. Rhymed advice from a father to his daughter - with a foreword by Milton Berle, cartoon illustrations by Abner Dean. Somewhat oversized format.

New York:: Andrews, McMeel & Parker,, 1985.. VG- (some wear to covers, crinkling to a few pages at lower corner.). Trade paperback.

Seattle:: Fantagraphics Books,, 1994.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a near fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with an almost invisible slit in the back cover of the dj.). First printing, limited signed edition. Contains 12 wordless Frank stories - some in full color, others in black and white. Cover praise by Neil Gaiman, and Scott McCloud (who said 'Woodring may be the most important cartoonist of his generation'). One of the uncommon hardcover editions, boldly SIGNED on the title and numbered 230/350. Large format, unpaginated.

New York:: Akashic Books,, (2019). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated boards (a new copy.). First printing. With his trademark humor, Mansbach "tackles a new addition to the family and all the fears and frustrations attendant to the simple, math-defying fact that two is a million more kids than one. As you probably know by now, you shouldn't read it to a child." Illustrated by Owen Brozman. INSCRIBED by Mansbach on the title page with the words "Play nice." Small oblong format, unpaginated.