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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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 291 p. An early collection of humorist Blount's writings. Book owned by professional backgammon player and author Paul Magriel, and his name is written in his own hand inside front cover. Near fine in very good dustjacket in mylar cover..

New York: Random House, 1956. Book. Illus. by Kopman, Benjamin. Good. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo. New York: Random House, 1956. Book club edition. 8vo. 493 pp. Translated by Constance Garnett, considered the best translation. Illustrated with black and white plates. Book has no previous ownership mark. Dust jacket is chipped top of spine, faded at spine, with short tear. Overall light soiling at top and edge of pages. Good in good dust jacket..

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crown Publishers, 1992. Book. Illus. by Wax, Bill; MacNelly, Jeff. Very Good. Trade Paperback. First Edition in Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Crown, 1992. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Trade paperback, 283 pp. This book spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list and Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Inside are cartoons illustrated by Jeff MacNelly. No dust jacket. Book has wear to corners, a bend to back cover, and soiling on page edges. However, there are no markings inside and pages are clean. A very good and solid book..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1953. First edition. 8vo. Black quarter cloth over flecked green boards with bright yellow lettering embossed on spine and front board, 307 pp. Very good+ in a good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..

New York, New York, U.S.A.: HarperBusiness, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo. New York: HarperBusiness, 1996. First edition, 7th printing. Hardcover binding. Near fine in very good dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover..

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.

Germany: Rowholt, 1957. Book. Illus. by Guareschi, Giovanni. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 12mo.. Trade paperback, 201 pp, illustrated with cartoons by the author. Pages tanned, covers soiled, very good..

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton, 1960. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, E. p. Dutton, 1960. Reprint. 8vo. Yellow cloth with black lettering embossed on spine, illustrated throughout. Former owner name. Very good+ in a very good+ dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..

Boston and New York: Colonial Press Company Book. Illus. by Pailthorpe, F. W.. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. From the Complete Works of W. M. Thackeray. No date. Beacon Edition. Fine olive silk binding, rough-cut pages. Paste-on titles, foxed. Bright top gilt. Frontispiece of Wm. Hogarth by Pailthorpe, plus 12 additional illustrations, including two etchings by Cruikshank and a photogravure from a photograph of Napoleon's tomb. Previous owner's name stamped onto title page, plus two additional owners penned in on front endpapers..

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1959. Ex-Library. Illus. by Illustrated. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo.. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1959. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 190 pp. Ex-university library, clean, crisp copy. Remants of library checkout slip on rear endpaper. Good condition..

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Quarter Cloth. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1988. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Dark blue quarter cloth over red boards with gilt lettering embossed on spine, matching red endpapers, 396 pp. Dust jacket has minor rubbing, still bright and shiny. Near fine in a very good+ dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, G. p. Putnam's Sons, 1976. First edition. 8vo. Gold-colored cloth with black lettering embossed on spine, 319 pp. A slam-bang, hair-raising adventure involving a million dollar diamond heist in a rebellion-torn, third world dictatorship and a slapstick social commentary all rolled into a thoroughly entertaining, if sometimes shocking, reckless romp! Appears unread. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Cloth. 254 p. Nixon-era humor from the satiric Buchwald. Fine in very good edgeworn dustjacket..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Bantam, 1997. Book club edition. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 197 pp. British aristocrat leaves his estate to his butler ... who is found dead in the family privy. Murder, mayhem, comedy. Tenderness to dust jacket top and bottom of spine. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, protected with mylar cover..

New York, NY: Viking Press, 1986. Book. Fine. Quarter Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Viking Press, 1986. First American edition. 8vo. Tan quarter cloth over mauve boards with gilt lettering embossed on spine, 522 pp. Appears unread. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..

New York: Viking, 1993. Book. Illus. by De Michiell, Robert. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Viking, 1993. First edition. Showtime notice about Louie's comedy special laid in. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 242 pp. Faint signs of folds to corners of a few pages. Book appears unread. Near fine in fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

Munich and Zurich: Delphin, 1955. Book. Near Fine. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Munich: Delphin, 1955. 8vo. Pictorial boards. Presumed first edition, not stated. 159 pp. Illustrated with cartoons. In German. Near fine condition..

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1901. Book. Illus. by Frederick Garrison Hall, Edward Revere Little. Good. Paper covered boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. 8vo. Paper-covered boards with caricature, red titles. 24 pp. Full-page black and white illustrations of Harvard faculty members facing amusing verses about them. Pages coming loose. Antique ex-library with library stamps, spine label, bar code. From the collection of Henry Crocker Kittredge. Good..