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Betsey Jane Ward, (Better-Half to Artemus) Hur Book of Goaks with a Hull Akkownt of the Coartship & Maridge to A4said Artemus

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Hurst & Co.: 1881

Seller ID: 005050

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark green blindstamped cloth on boards. Arlington Edition. Inside back cover advertises Somer Pianos. 312 pp. of humour.
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How to Torture Your Wife

By: Adams, Caswell

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co.: 1948

Seller ID: 012529

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Red cloth on boards showing edge wear. Descriptions on verso, full-page drawings on recto. Cartoons were previously published in the New York Tribune, 1940-1947. There are a lot of uncomfortable truths in these cartoons !
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Knocking the Neighbors

By: Ade, George

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Company: 1912

Seller ID: 005786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth on boards. Humourous social commentary. Every one of these short stories ends with a moral. This book looks like nearly new except for rubbed spine title and slightly worn corners. By the author of The College Widow and Fables in Slang. 229 pp.
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The Queen of Sheba

By: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, David Douglas: 1900

Seller ID: 003907

Binding: Flexible Leather

Condition: Good

Original brown suede illustrated and lettered by pyrography. The story appeared in five parts in Atlantic Monthly in 1877, 14 years before My Cousin the Colonel, with which it is often twinned. The protagonist, a bank cashier and bookkeeper, plans a three-week holiday on horseback in northern New Hampshire. Mary, his newly-purchased steed, has her own agenda. 231 pp., followed by several attractively-illustrated ads.
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Three Men - and Troddles; Being Some Further Exploits of a Well-known Quartette

By: Andom, R.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Newnes Ltd.: 1916

Seller ID: 004541

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original pictorial orange cloth on boards. The ninth book of Troddles. Cover faded, corners worn, and inscription. 318 pp.
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My Lady Nicotine

By: Barrie, J.M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Rahway, N.J., The Mershon Company:

Seller ID: 004093

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green cloth on boards. A series of short essays, often humourous, on smoking. Interior clean. Covers soiled. 231 pp.
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When a Man's Single

By: Barrie, James M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company:

Seller ID: 004855

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original grey-green cloth elaborately decorated in black florals on boards. Title page torn 2 inches at gutter foot. Cover soil and tanned text. Centred around Barrie's experience in the Nottingham Journal office. 242 pp. plus catalogs.
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Fast Fast Fast Relief

By: Berton, Pierre

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1962

Seller ID: 010226

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bright orange cloth on boards. Tiny chips head and foot of DJ. Chapter titles include: All My Own Work, Five Dilemmas of Our Time, The Canadian Way of Life, The Writing Game, Seasonal Reflections of a Country Dweller, and Dreams and Daydreams. This material first appeared in the Toronto Daily Star. 185 pp.
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Best of Beutel Editorial Cartoons (Signed)

By: Beutel, Josh

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Graphics Ltd.: 1983

Seller ID: 003310

ISBN: 0-9691592-0-X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Original red pictorial card covers. Foreword by the late Dalton Camp. Signed copy in excellent condition. Editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal and Evening Times-Globe since 1978. 174 pp.
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True (Blue) Grit: A Frank McKenna Review (Signed)

By: Beutel, Josh

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Productions: 1996

Seller ID: 003890

ISBN: 0-9691592-2-6

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original colour pictorial soft cover. Cartoons by Beutel and essays by friends and foes. McKenna has served at Premier of New Brunswick and Ambassador to the United States. He is now employed by Toronto Dominion Bank. 205 pp.
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True (Blue) Grit; A Frank McKenna Review

By: Beutel, Josh

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Productions: 1996

Seller ID: 004132

ISBN: 0969159226

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original red and white pictorial soft cover. Essays on McKenna by several prominent people, with cartoons by Beutel. 205 pp.
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Cartoons By Beutel

By: Beutel, Josh

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., The Telegraph-Journal: 1981

Seller ID: 009774

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original illustrated soft cover. Ex-library. Beutel's first book of cartoons, with introduction by his editor, Fred Hazel. Political satire at its cleanest and best. Cover creased, with no marks or damage.
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Say Goodnight, Dick

By: Beutel, Josh

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, Non Entity Press: 1985

Seller ID: 009823

ISBN: 0-920483-07-0

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Josh Beutel's third book portrays former premier Richard Hatfield of New Brunswick. Beutel is known locally for his work as editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, which employment ceased several years ago. Beutel survived a defamation suit by Malcolm Ross, a former school teacher in Moncton who is described as a holocaust denier. Awarded $7500 from Beutel initially, Ross was later ordered by an appeals court to pay Beutel $5000 in costs, the initial suit having been quashed. Approx. 85 pp.
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Say Goodnight, Dick

By: Beutel, Josh

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, Non Entity Press: 1985

Seller ID: 011710

ISBN: 0-920483-07-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The Chronicle of Kan-Uk the Kute

By: Black, Frank Burne

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1918

Seller ID: 007077

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original black cloth decorated in red and gold on boards. One leaf excised between the Dedication and Chapter I. Humourous approach to the soldiers' lives in the trenches, "where men do live in holes in the ground that they might thereby swat the Amalekites which are at this day called Huns."- Dedication. Cracked hinges glued front and back. Previous owner's name. 102 pp.
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Cartoons By Blaine

By: Blaine

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton Spectator: 1970

Seller ID: 000328

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original oblong pictorial(cartoon) cover in black on white cloth, no DJ. Inscribed and signed by the artist author. Clever, astute drawings and gag lines with no smut ! I laughed until I could hardly breathe ! Definitively Canadian, but well-read Americans will enjoy it, too! Cartoons were originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Ontario. Minor soil and staining to back cover, still Very Good.
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The Jolly Beggars; A Cantata (Langham Library of Humour Number 2)

By: Burns, Robert

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Musson Book Company Ltd.:

Seller ID: 003376

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good Plus

Original card covers in attached wraps. Second in the series, with no further titles listed (Lists to itself). Composed first in 1785, the scene is Mauchline, where Poosie Nancy had her change-house. 27 pp. with glossary, plus ad.
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More Cuties in Arms

By: Campbell, E. Simms

Price: $3,000.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay Company: 1943

Seller ID: 013237

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original red, white and blue paper covered boards with cartoon of a soldier and his lady on the front. Paper on spine has come away from spine at front gutter, but is still present. Hand soil. This book was written by the first openly black cartoonist to be syndicated in white newspapers in the U.S. We believe that this important piece of comic strip history was given as a gift to cartoonist C.D. Russell (who was identified as an influence on Campbell in his obituary) and his bride (?), Mary, in 1945. The blank pages in the front and back of the book have been signed along with sketches b...
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Cartoons By Chambers 1968

By: Chambers, Robert W.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, N.S., McCurdy Printing Co.: 1968

Seller ID: 011288

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Cover shows Stanfield telling G.I. Smith, "There you are, Ike - healthy, blooming, guaranteed for five years - and she's all yours." Nova Scotia as a garden patch. Smith was Interim Premier following Stanfield. Chambers worked primarily for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. He died in 1996 at the age of 90. 68 pp.
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Everything Correlates; Some Observations on the Educational Continuum

By: Cleveland, Anne and Anderson, Jean

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Vassar Cooperative Bookshop: 1946

Seller ID: 007711

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original green stapled softcover. Subtitled "The Female Student."Cartoon format. Approximately 68 pp.
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Category: Humour