Ellen: season IV, episode 1 [playbill]
N. pl. ABC, 1997. 4p., 5.5x8.5 inches, brochure/playbill for the first episode of season four, cast photo, short bios, trivia quiz, etc., very good on blue pictorial stock. More
Cat.No: 144226
N. pl. ABC, 1997. 4p., 5.5x8.5 inches, brochure/playbill for the first episode of season four, cast photo, short bios, trivia quiz, etc., very good on blue pictorial stock. More
Cat.No: 144226
King Mountain, NC: J.A. Neisler; Committee to Elect Godzilla for President, 1966. Newsletter. Three issues of the mimeographed 8.5x14 inch newsletter, unnumbered, 4 to 8 pages per issue, year penned in corner of two issues, another with notation "Viet Nam" in corner. Two issues have circular marks and pinholes at..... More
Cat.No: 272073
Chicago: npub, nd. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill for political artist Jeramy Turner's exhibition; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 314266
Sydney: "Christians" nd. Pamphlet. 23p., 4x5.5 inch pamphlet on tabloid-style newsprint; cartoons, illus., evenly toned, in very good condition. Anti-christian humor. More
Cat.No: 302541
Washington DC: Workers Education Local 189, AFT, [1972]. Pamphlet. [20p.], wraps, 4.25x5.5 inches; undated but back cover design celebrates the 50th anniversary of Local 189, established 1922. Collection of quotes on social change from figures ranging from Eugene Debs and Robert F. Williams to Helen Keller and H. Rap Brown..... More
Cat.No: 175453
Pavia: [Scuola A.U.C.], 1940. Paperback. [54] pp., illustrations, wraps. 13.5 x 9.75 in. Title from front cover, continued from text on first page. Covers dusty and soiled. Military engineering humor in this yearbook produced by cadets at an Italian engineering school in the 18th year of the Fascist dictatorship. Includes..... More
Cat.No: 298895
Los Angeles & NYC: Playkill Prods. & Encore, 1983-1997. Five theatre programs, various pagination, 5.5x8.5 inches, cast bios, ads, very good in pictorial wraps. Four Playkill programs (a parody of Playbill) from the Los Angeles productions in 1983 at the Comedy Store and the 1988, 93 & 94 editions at..... More
Cat.No: 269780
Concord, MA: Anvil Press, [date of publication not identified]. Pamphlet. 36p., wraps. 8.5 x 5 in. Covers toned and worn. Good. Satirical takes on various aspects of boarding school life, from “music depreciation” classes to the exchange of Valentine cards. More
Cat.No: 319099
Great Barrington MA: Berkshire Courier Print, for the compiler/author, 1899. Paperback. Peculiar keepsake and program, partly English and plenty of German, 7.5x5 inches; unpaginated textpages fastened with separators and way-too-heavy cardstock dividers that impart a hardbound feel, although the outer (title) leaves are pleasantly soft stuff nicely printed. Furnished with..... More
Cat.No: 311922
Berkeley: npub, [c1964?]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; illus., mild handling wear, middle crease, else very good. Appears to be an event to satirize the AFSCME union. More
Cat.No: 305781
[New York?]: [Servicemen’s Magazine?], [1927-1943?]. Pamphlet. 3 volumes, wraps. 5.25 x 4 to 6 x 4.25 in. Covers soiled and worn; leaves chipped and toned. Good only. Pamphlets sold by disabled and/or unemployed military veterans. Consist mostly of comics and entertaining vignettes that poke fun at military life. The “Buddies..... More
Cat.No: 313390
San Francisco: Mission Mini comix, 2011. Pamphlet. [8p.], 2.75x4 inch photocopied wraps; in very good condition. Critique of America's inception. More
Cat.No: 295561
[Bay Area, CA?]: n.pub. n.d. Handbill. Single-sided handbill, 8.5x11 inches; middle crease, else in very good condition. Short communique on humor as power, especially against Stalinists and Maoists. More
Cat.No: 293168
Pittsburgh: United Steelworkers of America, [197-?]. [32p.], staplebound booklet, 4x6 inches, wraps shelfworn else very good condition. Cartoons by "Floyd" intended to take a light-hearted look at racial and workplace fairness issues within the union, though a few of them would not pass muster in today's culture. More
Cat.No: 242034
[1970-?]. Pinback Button. 1.25 inch diameter pin, red and blue text on white field. Refers to a late 1969 statement by vice president Spiro Agnew that anti-war protesters were “an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals." More
Cat.No: 204791
New York: [Student Workers?], nd. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure; cartoons, some folding creases, otherwise very good. Propaganda by a student organization. More
Cat.No: 314106
[Milan]: Archetipografia di Milano, 1942. Paperback. 128 pp., illustrations, color printed wraps. 7.75 x 6.75 in. Covers worn and creased; spine crudely repaired; leaves slightly toned. A behind-the-scenes look at the glamorous lives and careers of radio entertainers with numerous biographies of actors, writers, DJs, and bandleaders and their orchestras..... More
Cat.No: 297443
Jakarta: Grafiti Pers, 1984. 111p., edgeworn wraps. Text in Bahasa, illustrated with cartoon drawings. Indonesian humorous stories. More
Cat.No: 143172
[Manchester, NH]: [High Meadow Publishing], 1983. Newspaper. 38pp., illustrations, wraps. 12.5 x 9.75 in. Single horizontal fold. Newsprint evenly toned, commensurate with age, but otherwise an exceptionally crisp and clean copy. Sole issue of this parody tabloid based on the National Inquirer. Stories include Soviet Russia as a sad horror..... More
Cat.No: 303564
San Francisco: Mission Mini-Comix, 2013. Pamphlet. [7p.], 2.75x4 inch photocopied wraps; comics originate from missionminicomix dot com, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 286842
New York: The Judge Publishing Company, 1892. Pp.133-148, [16]p. staplebound 13.5 x 10.25 inch self-wraps, three color plates and numerous b&w cartoons, wraps split, detached, and chipped, and the front wrap is completely torn across and mildly browned and stained. Other general handling signs, as is. Condition is a pity..... More
Cat.No: 99631
various locations: various publishers, [2000s]. Postcard. Eleven various publicity cards and leaflets, various sizes, all very good. Cards for "Oy Vey in a Manger," "Each Hit & I," "Electile Dysfunction" and more! America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet! More
Cat.No: 290806
New York: [publisher not identified], 1961. Handbill. 8.5 x 5.75 inch brochure, covers soiled. The New York painter offers an absurdist rant against consumer society (“As yet, our advertising gentlemen have not come up with a deodorant that will produce a stenchless humanity”). Anton (b. 1905) was a teacher in..... More
Cat.No: 304784
Paris / Bruxelles: Editions du Monde Libertaire (Paris) [and] Editions Alternative Libertaire (Bruxelles), 1997. Pamphlet. 48p., illustrated with only the cover cartoon, text a series of Anarchist statements about big issues, softbound in 8.5x6 inch stapled wraps, covers bear a couple of small smudges or lines and tiny corner-tip creases..... More
Cat.No: 298992
London: T. N. Longman, n.d. [but 1795]. Sewn Binding. [96]p., terminal page a publisher's menu for more "comic operas, farces and tragedies", a disbound text held securely by binder's glue and by remnant threads that further fasten the latter half of this fascicle (empty stabholes to first half), 8x5 inches..... More
Cat.No: 300377