Ho Hum, First Edition (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Gently rubbed, spine slightly sunned with a 1/2" tear to the fore edge of the front wrap. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Fair. First Edition; First Printing. 36 pages; highlighting throughout the book. Moderate shelf rubbing on the covers. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. O. Soglow [Otto, 1900-1975] (illustrator). 1st Edition. 12mo. xi, 116p. Foreword by E.B. White. Illustrated throughout with delightful black and white drawings by O. Soglow. Green cloth with blue letters on the front cover and the spine. Some wear to the extremities with the corners just barely rubbed through, covers lightly soiled, lettering on spine pretty much faded, previous owners' signatures [Janet Wile Metzger, Louis Wile Metger July, 1931], all illustrations in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. This book comprises the original collection of Newsbreaks from the New Yorker. "Newsbreaks" are what the New Yorker used to fill out a column of type which might leave 2 or 3 inches blank at the bottom of the page. This empty space was filled with "excerpts from newspapers and other publications--excerpts that were supposed to be funny or instructive because they contained some error of typography or judgment. [For example, there might be a classified ad for a "widow dresser", when what was meant was "window dresser"!} This book contains about four hundred newsbreaks, a selection from those that have appeared in THE NEW YORKER in the past couple years [1929-1931]." [from the Foreword by E.B. White] Needless to say, this is a book full of humor. as well as humorous illustrations by O. Soglow. Otto Soglow was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip The Little King. Soglow studied with John Sloan at the Art Students League of New York and had his first cartoon printed in 1919. Throughout the 1920s, his drawings were seen in numerous magazines, including New York World, Collier's, The New Yorker, and Judge and Life. He also illustrated more than 35 books. Per the signatures in the book, it once belonged to Louis Wile Meltzer and his wife Janet Wile Meltzer. Louis had been a cellist in the Rochester Philharmonic but in mid-life turned to comedy writing. According to Herb Wasserman, the Meltzers' one-time son-in-law, Louis wrote for the NBC Four TV comedy program "Broadway Open House," for which he invented the character "Dagmar".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. original orange cloth, front cover shows some sun fading, some pencil on endpages, a bit of jacket still stuck to cover.

Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good. First Editions. First printings. Two Volume set. Ho Hum: Newsbreaks from "The New Yorker"--a Very Good copy in green cloth stamped in blue, topstain, lacking the dustwrapper. Trivial wear to points, spine darkened, text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 116pp. Another Ho Hum: More Newsbreaks from "The New Yorker"--a Very Good copy in orange cloth stamped in dark blue, topstain, lacking the dustwrapper. Spine faded, trivial wear to points, one tiny hurt point top rear board, text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 124pp. E.B. White, who writes the Forward for each of these volumes, invented a device for filling up the space at the end of magazine columns: Quotations from print media that were nonsensical or absurd on their face, and commenting upon them, sort of like linguistic cartoons. These were one of the signature forms of The New Yorker magazine, which continued long after White left it.Quite uncommon. The set. Q12691.

First edition, 1/100 copies, this one inscribed by the author below the limitation statement. Tall 8vo. xiv, 47 pp. Illustrated with 14 plates from photographs. An engaging account of a marlin fishing expedition out of Bimini and Cat Cay in the Bahamas (featuring the use of bonefish as bait at one point), privately printed for the author and not for sale. Harkness was a financier and philanthropist; his father co-founded the Wrigley and Harkness Company and was a major investor in the Standard Oil Company. After graduating from Yale in 1922, Harkness attended Harvard Law School, receiving his law degree in 1925. A member of numerous clubs and organizations, he was at one time vice president of the American Geographical Society and the Boys Club of New York. In addition to this title, Harkness also wrote Temples and Topees, printed at The Derrydale Press in 1936. Bruns H-73. Siegel 150. Frazier H-3-a: "An extremely rare Derrydale, a hard book to find." Original gilt-stamped brown cloth, simulating leather (rubbed). Very good. (3017).

First edition, no. 12 of 100 copies. First edition, no. 12 of 100 copies. Illustrated with photographs. 47 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An engaging account of a marlin-fishing expedition out of Bimini and Cat Cay, privately printed for the author, and not offered for sale. Harkness records using bonefish for bait (pp. 9, 42-43), and seeing young tarpon, but being told by their guide that the tarpon would not rise to bait in that season (March). "An extremely rare Derrydale . a hard book to find." (Frazier). The author was a financier and philanthropist; his father co-founded the Wrigley and Harkness Company and was a major investor in the Standard Oil Company. William Hale Harkness graduated from Yale in 1922 and received a Harvard law degree in 1925. A member of numerous clubs and organizations, he was at one time vice president of the American Geographical Society and the Boys Club of New York. He was also author of Temples and Topees, published by The Derrydale Press in 1936 Presentation copy, inscribed by the author beneath the limitation statement, "To Ferg: Hoping when you go fishing it will be easier for you to catch a fish than it was for me to get ink out of this pen, Bill". Siegel 150; Frazier H-3-a; Heller 2:844 Original brown leatherette. Very good plus copy (joints slightly rubbed as usual). Inscribed by the author Illustrated with photographs. 47 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.