BY AND LARGE
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Franklin P. Adams to journalist Edward F. O'Day on the front flyleaf, with a handwritten letter on New York Tribune letterhead..... More
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MY LIFE WITH WOMEN: Confessions of a Domesticated Male
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
Peter Arno's HULLABALOO
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
THE TIME OF LAUGHTER, with a Foreword by Frank Sullivan
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
SALT WATER TAFFY or, Twenty Thousand Leagues Away from the Sea: The Almost Incredible Autobiography of Capt. Ezra Triplett's Seafaring Daughter
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
CHICK TRACT PARODIES
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
MISTER ZIP
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
MR. KLEIN'S KAMPF or His Life as Hitler's Double
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
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