New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [N.d., but ca. 1934]. First edition. Original red paper boards with a lively repeating book pattern. [14x10 cm]. Two color illustrations by Philip G. Reed. Fine.  First edition, thus. An extract from Blades's 19th century book on the various enemies of books from.....

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1971]. Original color decorated paper boards. 8 x 7.25"; 63 pp. Fine, in a good + dust jacket with a closed tear at top edge of front panel, a small chip to the lower edge of the back, and some light handsoiling.  First edition.....

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1976. Edward Gorey, illustrator. Oblong decorated wrappers. First trade edition. Near fine copy with minor edgewear, one small ½" closed tear at top of rear spine edge. Illustrated throughout with Edward Gorey's irreverent Victorian Gothic images in response to the authors' equally nonsense poems and prose.....

London: Dennis Dobson Ltd., [1950]. Small octavo. Lavender cloth. 332 pp. Reproduced by photolithography from the original Faber & Faber 1933 edition. Tiny bookseller's label on rear pastedown; very good or better, in a moderately worn dust jacket with a snag at the top edge. .

Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by J. Marshall, in the Old Flesh-Market, Where may also be had, a large and curious Assortment of Songs, Ballads, Tales, Histories, &c. [nd. but c. 1805]. First edition. Chapbook. Self wrapper, untrimmed. Pictorial woodcut vignette on title of, presumably, the Gentlemen of the Quizzical Society.....

[Los Angeles]: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. 1930. Original. Original pictorial leaflet, folded to 14.5 x 11 cm. [4]pp. A bit rumpled and smudged but a good, bright copy.  A publicity herald for this "War Comedy of Comedies," based on a story idea by Keaton and others, scripted by Richard Schayer, directed by.....