New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Leo Hershfield. Inscribed by Armour on the title page. Original yellow paper-covered board over a black buckram spine, with yellow and blue titles..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. Hardcover. Third printing. From the library of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, with his signature and caricature self portrait to the front pastedown. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Corey Ford on the half-title. Sentimental chronicle of the humor and humorists of the 1920s, with memories of W.C. Fields, Robert Benchley, E.B. White..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. With a promotional photograph laid in. Among Ford's most successful books, a parody of Joan Lowell's The Cradle of the Deep (1929). "Salt Water Taffy is..... More
A collection of eight Chick Tract parodies mimicking the style of the controversial religious cartoon tracts published by Chick Publications. Chick Tracts are small staple-bound pamphlets (5” x 3”) aimed at children, covering a long..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by H. Allen Smith to film director Arthur Lubin on the front flyleaf. Lubin directed the adaptation of Smith's comic..... More
New York: Stackpole Sons, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by H. Allen Smith on the front flyleaf. In this screwball face, a Jew takes over from his look-alike, Hitler, and declares Germany to be the..... More