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New York: Random House, 1954. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 214 p. A humorous look at military life, this bestselling book was adapted into a Broadway play, a motion picture, and television series. Fine in very good dust jacket in… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. First edition. 12 mo. Black cloth with blue laid-in title plates with black lettering on spine and front board, blue endpapers, 273 pp. A humorous story of s somewhat dysfunctional… Read more about this item

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1957. Book. Illus. by Martin, Henry R.. Fine. Paper covered boards. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated paper-covered boards with illustrations by Henry R. Martin. 61 pp. Slight tanning to spine of dust jacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket..

New York, NY: Viking Compass, 1973. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New York, NY, Viking Compass, 1973. Reprint. 12mo. Paperback with pictorial cover, 256 pp. A marvelously funny novel describing, through one young adventurer in particular, an attempt of England's postwar generation to break from that country's traditional class structure. Blue crayon on… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1974. New York: Random House, 1974. First edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, photographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. A tough biography of the legendary comic by one of the twentieth century's most astute critics of popular culture. I took a course with Albert Goldman while at Columbia University in the '70s, and he… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Paperback, 186 pp. Includes ephemera about the book. Something stinks about fishing. And as far as Cade Carlson is concerned, it isn t just his family s best-selling catfish bait, either. While there s no denying that the secret recipe concocted by his grandfather does indeed produce… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1989. New York: Viking 1989. First American edition, second printing. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 277 pp. Appears unread. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Hinges sound. No writing inside. Fine in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. First soft cover edition. 12mo. 148pp. Charming collection of remedies, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes. Recipes for commonplace ailments like warts, nosebleeds, aging skin, and hangovers. New.. First Edition in Paperback. Soft Cover. New/New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. First soft cover edition. 12mo. 148pp. Charming collection of remedies, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes. Recipes for commonplace ailments like warts, nosebleeds, aging skin, and hangovers. New.. First Edition in Paperback. Soft Cover. New/New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. First soft cover edition. 12mo. 148pp. Charming collection of remedies, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes. Recipes for commonplace ailments like warts, nosebleeds, aging skin, and hangovers. New.. First Edition in Paperback. Soft Cover. New/New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. First soft cover edition. 12mo. 148pp. Charming collection of remedies, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes. Recipes for commonplace ailments like warts, nosebleeds, aging skin, and hangovers. New.. First Edition in Paperback. Soft Cover. New/New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. First soft cover edition. 12mo. 148pp. Charming collection of remedies, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes. Recipes for commonplace ailments like warts, nosebleeds, aging skin, and hangovers. New.. First Edition in Paperback. Soft Cover. New/New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1951. Book. Illus. by Arno, Peter. Good. Quarter Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1951. First edition. 4to. Blue quarter cloth over yellow boards with white lettering embossed on spine and front board, illustrated in black and white throughout. No dust jacket. Bindings… Read more about this item

Germany: Rowohlt, 1957. Germany: Rowohlt, 1957. First German edition. IN GERMAN. 12mo. Trade paperback, 228 pp. with 40 cartoons by the author. Cartoon covers in color. Pages tan, a few corners turned. Very good.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Guareschi, Giovanni. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Chicago: Scott Foresman, 1953. Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1953. Hardcover. Oblong 24mo. Pictorial white cloth. 31pp. Numerous illustrations in black and white from Salo, Jeff Keate, Charles Allen, Stanley Berenstain, "Scuffy", Chas. Strauss, Drucker, Hank Ketcham, Reamer Keller, Jane Spear King, Harry Mace, Bill O'Malley and others.. Spine sunned. No writing inside. Hinges sound. Very good. First edition of… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Rust colored quarter cloth over tan boards with silver lettering embossed on spine, 223 pp. Very minor soiling to page edges, shelf wear to bottom of boards. Very good in a near fine dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Penguin, 1989. New York, NY, Penguin, 1989. First edition. 8vo. Black quarter cloth over gray boards with silver and red lettering embossed on spine, red endpapers, rough cut pages, 180 pp. From a gentle portrait of a Memorial Day parade in Cabot, Vermont, to an off-beat vision of Disneyland as a totalitarian state, Mamet displays all… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1996. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue quarter cloth over light orange boards with silver lettering embossed on spine, 238 pp. Remainder mark bottom of pages. Else new and unread in a new dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Book. Very Good. Quarter Cloth. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Rust colored quarter cloth over tan boards with silver lettering embossed on spine, 223 pp. Very good in a very good dust jacket, protected… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Remainder. New. Quarter Cloth. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1996. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue quarter cloth over light orange boards with silver lettering embossed on spine, 238 pp. New in a new dust jacket, protected by a mylar… Read more about this item