Limericks [the Famous Paris Edition, Complete and Unexpurgated

Secaucus, NJ, Castle Books. 1992, Reprint. (ISBN: 1555217834). Cloth, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover, Lengthy ffep gift inscription; Textblock very clean and tight; Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed; Dust jacket lightly edge and corner rubbed; 1700 examples with Notes, Variants and Index. 517p. The largest collection of limericks ever published, erotic or otherwise. Near Fine/Very Good+ (in mylar).

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Book number: EW6191

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Limericks, Humor, Ribald Humor, Off-Color Rhymes, Adult Humor 1555217834

ALEXIS, RAYMOND C. (EDITOR)

Chess'n Stuff Aug/Sep 1983 Vol. 6 No. 4

Longmont, CO, Jeroyan Enterprises. 1983. Stapled Wraps, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black and White Illustrations and Photos. Periodical, Text block is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed; some light shelf rubbing along the spine. Pages 74-95. Very Good+.

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Book number: EW3168

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Chess, Board Games, Chess Strategy, Hobbies, Chess Skills Black and White Illustrations and Photos

ALEXIS, RAYMOND C. (EDITOR)

Chess'n Stuff Apr/May 1983 Vol. 6 No. 2

Longmont, CO, Jeroyan Enterprises. 1983. Stapled Wraps, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black and White Illustrations and Photos. Periodical, Text block is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed; some light shelf rubbing along the spine. Pages 26-47. Very Good+.

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Book number: EW3169

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Chess, Board Games, Chess Strategy, Hobbies, Chess Skills Black and White Illustrations and Photos

ALEXIS, RAYMOND C. (EDITOR)

Chess'n Stuff Feb/Mar 1983 Vol. 6 No. 1

Longmont, CO, Jeroyan Enterprises. 1983. Stapled Wraps, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black and White Illustrations and Photos. Periodical, Text block is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed; some light shelf rubbing along the spine. Pages 2-23. Very Good+.

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Book number: EW3170

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Chess, Board Games, Chess Strategy, Hobbies, Chess Skills Black and White Illustrations and Photos

ALEXIS, RAYMOND C. (EDITOR)

Chess'n Stuff Oct/Nov 1982 Vol. 5 No. 6

Longmont, CO, Jeroyan Enterprises. 1982. Stapled Wraps, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black and White Illustrations and Photos. Periodical, Text block is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed; some light shelf rubbing along the spine. Pages 122-143. Very Good+.

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Book number: EW3171

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Chess, Board Games, Chess Strategy, Hobbies, Chess Skills Black and White Illustrations and Photos

ALEXIS, RAYMOND C. (EDITOR)

Chess'n Stuff Jun/Jul 1983 Vol. 6 No. 3

Longmont, CO, Jeroyan Enterprises. 1983. Stapled Wraps, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black and White Illustrations and Photos. Periodical, Text block is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed; some light shelf rubbing along the spine. Pages 50-71. Very Good+.

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Book number: EW3191

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Chess, Board Games, Chess Strategy, Hobbies, Chess Skills Black and White Illustrations and Photos

ALEXIS, RAYMOND C. (EDITOR)

Chess'n Stuff Oct/Nov 1983 Vol. 6 No. 5

Longmont, CO, Jeroyan Enterprises. 1983. Stapled Wraps, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black and White Illustrations and Photos. Periodical, Text block is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed; some light shelf rubbing along the spine. Pages 98-123. Very Good+.

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Book number: EW3192

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Chess, Board Games, Chess Strategy, Hobbies, Chess Skills Black and White Illustrations and Photos

BILLINGTON, RAY ALLEN (PLAGIARIZED, ARRANGED, ANNOTATED AND SOME WRITTEN BY)

Limericks Historical and Hysterical

NY & London, W. W. Norton & Company. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0393014533). Quarter Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, Light penciled marginalia on approx. half a dozen pages, faint age toning to the end papers, else textblock is clean and tight; Cloth spine bumped at the head and foot, paper boards. Price-clipped dust jacket, minimally shelf worn, some soiling to the covers, mylar sleeved. 127p. including bibliography and index. Very Good+/Very Good+ (in mylar).

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Book number: SB15793

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Limericks, Historical Limericks, Adult Rhymes Literary Collections & Poetry 0393014533

CATHCART, THOMAS; DANIEL, KLEIN

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Books

NY, Abrams Image. 2007, 4th Printing. (ISBN: 9780810914933). Boards, 12mo - over 6¾" 7¾" Tall. Ill.: Black and White Illustrations By Arthur Meyers and Paul Busch. Hardcover, Textblock very clean and tight; Binding minimally rubbed; 198p. Fine.

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Book number: EW6195

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Comedy, Philosophy, Jokes Philosophy 9780810914933 Black and White Illustrations By Arthur Meyers and Paul Busch

SILL, BEN, CATHRYN AND JOHN

A Field Guide to Little-Known & Seldom-Seen Birds of North America

Atlanta, Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. 1988, 2nd Printing. (ISBN: 0934601585). Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: John C. Sill. Paperback, A parody on bird-watching and orithology; Former owner's inked gift inscription on front page, else textblock is very clean and tight. Minimally worn binding. 73p. Near Fine.

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Book number: SB15925

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Satirical Birds, Humorous Birds, Farcical Wildlife, Humor Birds/Ornithology 0934601585 John C. Sill

CHERNEV, IRVING

The Russians Play Chess

Philadelphia, PA, David McKay Company. 1947. Red Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Chess Diagrams. Hardcover, Probable First Edition/Printing; Aged endpapers, otherwise textblock is clean and tight with chess diagrams. Red cloth binding, bumped head and foot of spine, light bumping to the corners. Unclipped dust jacket, basically in three pieces, large tear to front fore-edge yet still intact at the corners, several chips on the head and foot of spine, several edge tears and moderate character soil; 200p. Good+/Fair (in mylar).

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Book number: SB8163

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Russian Chess Games, American Soviet Chess Championships, Chess Biography, Chess Playing, Chess International Matches Chess Chess Diagrams

FLETCHER, L. ELLIOTT

Gambits Accepted: A Study of Opening Sacrifices [Chess]

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1954, First British Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Diagrams. Hardcover, Endpapers are moderately aged and foxed. First British Edition; Very light musty odor to textblock. Chess label on fep with offset staining on ffep, else textblock is clean and tight. Binding has a sunned spine, with moderate edge and corner wear. Top edge shows light environmental soiling; Unclipped but sunned and very edge-worn dust jacket, edge chips, a few closed tears, chipped corners; 254p. including index. Good/Good (in mylar).

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Book number: SB7381

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Chess Championships, chess Strategies, Chess playing, Board Games, Games, Chess Opening Sacrifices Chess Diagrams

FORRESTER, IZOLA L. (TEXT BY)

"Us Fellers"

Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Company. 1907, First Printing. Illustrated Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Pictured by B. Cory Kilvert. Hardcover, aged and fragile textblock through the first 20 pages, but the rest of the leaves are nice and clean, still tightly bound; previous owner's bookplate (dated 1914) on the moderately yellowed and weathered fep; shaken at front gutter; the boards are worn, character-soiled, and aged; no dust jacket; 50pp. Good.

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Book number: SB629

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Childrens Reading, Childrens Story, Us Fellers, Juvenile Reading, Childrens Literature Children's Pictured by B. Cory Kilvert

GORDON, RALPH

"Hello Bill!" an Historical Compendium of the World's Greatest Gang of Good Fellows

Seattle, Frank McCaffrey Pub. 1931. Purple Boards, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Ralph Gordon. Hard Cover, owner's ink notation on ffep, otherwise textblock is clean and tight. binding is torn at the top front gutter, with overall light to moderate edge and corner wear; no dust jacket; unpaginated. Good+.

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Book number: SJ5093

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Seattle, Seattle Washington, Good Fellows, Elk Good Fellows Ralph Gordon

BARING-GOULD, WILLIAM S.

The Lure of Limerick: An Uninhibited Story

UK, Wordsworth Editions Ltd. 1989. (ISBN: 1853269379). Green Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: William S. Baring-Gould. Hardcover, Usual age toning along the edges, else textblock is clean and tight. All page edges are straight and sound. Light bumping to the head and foot of spine. Unclipped dust jacket, illustrated and mylar sleeved. 246p. including sources. Very Good+/Near Fine (in mylar).

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Book number: SB15791

Catalogue: Games & Humor

Keywords: Limerick, Chapbooks, Limerick Collections Literary Collections & Poetry 1853269379 William S. Baring-Gould