226. Limerick Lyrics. New York: Goerge Sully and Co., (1906).
First Edition. Collection of over 700 limericks and lyrics edited by Stanton Vaughn. Near Fine in Very Good plus illustrated dustjacket. Item #7545
Humor
227. Foolish Fiction. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1925.
First Edition. Humorous collection of parodies of current romance and adventure fiction including works by Edna Ferber, Peter Kynd, F. Brett Young, Dale Collins, Robert W. Service, Kathleen Norris, Joseph Hergesheimer, Hugh Walpole and others. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some small edge chip and short closed tears. Item #20232
228. Susan Clegg and A Man In The House. Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1907.
First Edition. Alice Barber Stephens dustjacket art and illustrations. Humorous novel and third in a series concerning Susan Clegg, who in this novel takes in a boarder. Near Fine with signature to front free endpaper in Very Good plus dustjacket with chipping to top spine end, half dollar size chip to rear top edge, shallow chipping to flap edges, age toning to white, and general shelf wear. Nice example of early dustjacket. Item #14425
229. How it Looks. New York: Brentano's. 1888.
First Edition. Original green cloth. Author's first book and humorous collection of sketches. Very Good plus tight copy, small cloth nick at rear board. Item #8875
230. I've Got Your Number. New York: Century Co., (1932).
Later printing. Gomez Amador dustjacket art. Party book of humorous sets of questions, the answers to which tell what kind of person he or she may be. Item #8402
231. A Book of Charades. New York: George H. Doran Co., (1927).
First Edition. Collection of 100 charades in verse by the mystery writer. Near Fine in scarce Very Good tissue-like dustjacket, some light foxing, few cm wide chip at lower rear panel. Item #7551
232. Ptomaine Street, the Tale of Warble Petticoat. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1922.
Fifth Impression. Jazz Age novel and parody of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street. Near Fine in dustjacket with edge chipping, lower spine end with inch deep chip, lower front panel with half dollar sized chip. Item #10090
233. Ptomaine Street, the Tale of Warble Petticoat. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1921.
First Edition. Jazz Age novel and parody of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street. Near Fine but for small bookplate at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chips. Item #20000
234. An Outline of Humor. New York. G.P. Putnam and Sons. 1932.
First Edition. A chronical of humor from the Prehistoric times to the twentieth century. Very Good with light spotting to cloth in Very Good dustjacket with light chipping to spine ends, wear along spine edges, wear along edges,and some mild darkening. 782 pages. Item #11614
235. Kipps, The Story of a Simple Soul. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.
Second American Edition, (first illustrated?). Humorous novel of a draper's assistant bent on acquiring refinement. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end and top edge. Item #26083
236. Mixed Bags. New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1929.
First Edition. Humor Novel. Near Fine in Good dustjacket with two half dollar size chips to front top edge, light chipping to spine ends, and light chipping to rear bottom edge. An uncommon title. Item #14838
237. Land of the Whatsit. New York: Macaulay Company. (1935).
First Edition. Joe Banks dustjacket art and illustrations. Humorous collection of stories of those adventuring children, Billy and Betty, who first gained popularity in contemporary newspapers and magazine. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, few tiny edge chips and shelf wear, vertical crease at both panels and spine. Item #14964
238. Four Hundred Good Stories. New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1910.
First Edition. Collection of humorous stories culled from the 'Under the Chestnut Tree' department of Everybody's Magazine. Subjects include baseball, dentists, doctors, hunting, intoxication, authors, lynching, polygamy, telephones, war, etc. Uncommon in dustjacket. Near Fine but for foxing to top page edge, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, soiling to white panels, lettering faded at spine, some spotting to spine, lower spine end chipped centimeter deep. Item #40909
239. So This is Golf! New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1923.
First Edition. M.L. Blumenthal dustjacket art and illustrations. Golf Humor. Humorous short work on golf written for “Every duffer who swore he would quit the game- but didn't. Every long-suffering wife who has watched the destruction of her cherished art objects while her husband tried a few practice swings in the living room.” Near Fine but for some natural shadowing to endpapers, in Very Good dustjacket, few closed tears and nicks at top edge. Item #34175
240. The Rubyiat of a Freshman. Chicago: Collegiate World Publishing Co., (1921).
First Edition. Humorous short work of Jazz Age collegians and their exploits as pranksters and suitors, told in the form of letters from a student to his father. An uncommon title. Very Good in Good to Very Good fragile illustrated dustjacket with some chipping at top and mid-spine. Item #14625
241. The Code of the Woosters. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, (1938).
First Canadian Edition. Presumed Roese dustjacket art. 'As usual, the inimitable Bertie and the irreplaceable Jeeves find themselves in the vortex of frantic adventures'. Very Good but for stain to lower quarter of front cover, contemporary previous owner gift inscription at front endpaper, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, staining to lower quarter of front panel, inch sized chip at top spine end, some small chips and wear. Item #41237
242. Joy in the Morning. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1946.
First Edition. Paul Galdone dustjacket art. Jeeves and Bertram Wooster adventure. Very Good, front pastedown with signs of removed bookplate, in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, some usual age-toning to white of panels. Item #12093
243. The Little Nugget. New York: W.J. Watt. (1914).
First American Edition. Will Grefe illustrations. Very Good plus copy with light bumping to corners and spine ends. An attractive copy. Item #14666
244. Money for Nothing. New York: A. L. Burt Company, (1928).
Reprint Edition of an uncommon Wodehouse title. W. Morgan dustjacket art. Novel which introduces Lester Carmody, a wealthy man with a bad liver and worse disposition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dustjacket, few short closed tears to edges, white of jacket modestly soiled. Item #19960
245. Bill the Conqueror. New York: George H. Doran Co., (1924).
First Edition. Humorous London set romance novel. Very Good, top spine end rubbed, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners. Item #28482
246. Bill the Conqueror. New York: George H. Doran Co., (1924).
First Edition. Humorous London set romance novel. Near Fine bright copy (but with rear inner hinge cracked and neatly repaired - now a little tight) in Very Good attractive dustjacket, small chips at top spine end and top front flap corner, some shallow loss at spine ends, dime sized chip at top front panel mended back in place with archival tape at verso, two inch closed tear at top rear panel. Item #39626
247. Bill the Conqueror. New York: George H. Doran Co., (1924).
First Edition. Humorous London set romance novel. Very Good, some cracking to inner hinges (as is common for this title) in Very Good attractive dustjacket, some mild soiling as expected, tiny chips at spine ends, modest shelf wear. Item #41756
248. Blandings Castle and Elsewhere. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [1936].
Second Printing. Abbey dustjacket art. Nice vintage edition of this classic Mulliner title, last ad at front flap of jacket lists Laughing Gas for 7/6 net (published in 1936). Near Fine but for foxing to title page and other preliminaries in nearly Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chipping and closed tears, dime sized chip at top front panel. Item #26600
249. Carry On, Jeeves! Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928.
First "Doubleday, Doran" Edition (first published by George H. Doran in 1927). James Montgomery Flagg dustjacket art. Further humorous adventures Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. An uncommon printing, and seldom seen. Very Good, very mild cocking, contemporary gift inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good price clipped dustjacket, some shallow loss at spine ends. Item #29580
250. Carry On, Jeeves! New York: A. L. Burt and Co., (1927).
Early Reprint Edition. James Montgomery Flagg dustjacket art. Further humorous adventures Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, inch and half chip at top spine end, chipped at lower spine end. Item #41732
