Search Results: Humor from Mary Riversong Books

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade. By Patrick Dennis. Vanguard Press 1959 First Edition, Stated Third Printing Thus. "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Used. VG/VG Unclipped $3.50 ORIGINAL DJ is now protected in a mylar wrap. One of the funniest books ever written, this story was also a made into a play, a film, and a musical with the incomparable Rosalind Russell and Lucille Ball. Rare/quite scarce in a nice dj. Please see our photos. A great find.

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade. By Patrick Dennis. Vanguard Press 1959 First Edition, Stated Third Printing Thus. "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Used. VG/VG Unclipped $3.50 ORIGINAL DJ is now protected in a mylar wrap. Former owner names on front free endpaper. One of the funniest books ever written, this story was also a made into a play, a film, and a musical with the incomparable Rosalind Russell and Lucille Ball. Rare/quite scarce in a nice dj. Please see our photos. 280 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8.

Chas. Addams Monster Rally. Copyright 1950, Simon and Schuster, NY. States Sixth printing thus. Dark humor/noir cartoons featuring Gomez Addams et al. Used. Good condition/ No DJ is included. 91 pages. 8 ¼ X 11 ¼.

WestcottHarum E. N. Westcott's Famous Novel DAVID HARUM: A Story of American Life. Used. Copyright 1898 D. Appleton, Copyright 1926 Phillip N. Wescott. 1934 Grosset & Dunlap Photoplay Edition. VG/VG Rare Original Fox Film Will Rogers Dust Jacket. 351 pages plus adverts. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. Blue boards with black titling. Photographic still endpapers are intact at the hinge. Please excuse our batch of books photo. The Westcott book is the only one we are selling here.

Kim "Howard" Johnson.The First 20 years of Monty Python. Illustrated with photographs. St. Martins Press, NY, Used. Softcover. VG Condition. 269 pages. 8 ½ X11.

RARE OCTOBER, 1908 HARPER & BROS. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING THUS. INCLUDES THE WATERMELON PAGE. COLOUR PRINTS. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL. Good + condition / No DJ included. USED. Front paper past-down is in good shape. Some finger marks noticed on a few pages. Unpaginated. 7 1/4 X 9

RARE OCTOBER, 1908 HARPER & BROTHERS. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. INCLUDES THE WATERMELON PAGE. COLOUR PRINTS. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL. HOLE-DRILLED. ANTIQUARIAN. Good USED condition/ No DJ Included. USED. Front paper paste-down is scuffed. Binding is tight and all plates look in good shape. Finger marks noted. 7 3/8 X 8 7/8. This is so much fun! Like watching animation go by one frame at a time. And we're off, like a shot!

TWO SHEPHERD MEAD VOLUMES are included here: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, A Dastard's Guide To Fame and Fortune (unsigned) USED Good Condition/ Good Condition yellow publisher's dust jacket. 1952 Simon & schuster third Impression thus. 148 pages, 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 PLUS a 1965 Simon & Schuster Stated First Printing copy of "The Carefully Considered Rape of the World, a Novel about the Unspeakable" SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. USED. Good/Good- original $4.95 unclipped green dust jacket with photo of author on back panel. 245 pages 5 3/4 X 8 3/8.

Twain, mark. The Innocents Abroad Or The New Pilgrims' Progress. Copyright 1911. Undated. Grosset & Dunlap Reprint Edition, Circa 1932. Published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers. Red faux ostrich boards with Sphinx cartouche at center front. Red topstain. USED. VG Condition/ No DJ included. 472 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾.

Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. MULE BONE, A COMEDY OF NEGRO LIFE. PLAY. COMEDY. ISBN0060968850. Stated 1991 First Edition, Harper Perennial, NY. Back cover states: "The never-before published play. Publication date set to coincide with its debut production at the Lincoln Center Theater n New York City." USED. Very Good Condition. Softcover. 282 pages. 5 ¾ X 8.

Gary Larson. The PreHistory of the Dark Side, A 10th Anniversary Exhibit. Copyright 1989, Universal Press Features Syndicate. Andrews and McMeel, Kansas City, MO First Edition. HARD TO FIND. USED. 288 pages. VG/VG Unclipped $19.95 Dust Jacket. ISBN 0836218612 Large Volume. 8 3/4 X 11 1/4.

By Peter Newell, author of "The Hole Book". The Rocket Book, Harper & Brothers Stated October, 1912 First Printing. USED. GOOD+ CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET INCLUDED. 7 1/8 X 8 7/8. Seller's Note: Sadly, (no one is sadder than me) the Front paper paste-down label has been removed from cover. Minor corner-bumps. No titling on spine if printed there originally. Pages are all present, in nice shape, and affixed to binding. HOLE-DRILLED straight through the book. RARE IN THIS FIRST PRINTING.

Somewhere in Red Gap. By Harry Leon Russell, the author of Ruggles of Red Gap. Grosset & Dunlap Reprint. Doubleday, Page copyright, 1916. WESTERN. USED. VG Condition/ No DJ included. By the author of "Ruggles of Red Gap". Illustrated by John R. Neill (illustrator of the Oz Series) , F.R. Gruger, and Henry Raleigh. 408 pages, 5 1/8 X 7 5/8.Please see our stock photo.

Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival. 1945, Harper & Brothers. First Edition, $4.50 dust jacket thus. Book and jacket Illustrated by the author.HUMOR. AMERICANA. Used VG/Good+ original unclipped dust jacket. Hard to find in a nice jacket like this. Grey boards with yellow spine. Pink/white/green DJ. Jacket states No. 9078A. 369 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 3/4.

O'Brien, P.J. Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. With an appreciation by Lowell Thomas. Copyright 1935, P.J. O'Brien. Published by George A. Parker Company, Philadelphia. Illustrated. RARE SALESMAN'S DUMMY WITH SUBSCRIPTION BLANKS. Includes excerpts from 296 page complete book. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ AS ISSUED.