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Creature Comforts by ADDAMS Charles

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Creature Comforts
Author: ADDAMS Charles
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1981. First Edition. Signed. ADDAMS, Charles. Creature Comforts. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1981). Tall, slim quarto, original half orange cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $4700.First edition, first printing, of this collection of Addams cartoons, inscribed to actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and his wife, with a pen-and-ink drawing to the fly-leaf depicting Addams famed character Uncle Fester flashing himself under a rain coat; appearing as a tattoo on Uncle Festers chest is the inscription, To Marydee [in red ink] and Douglas [in green ink] with Love [in blue ink] Chas Addams 82 [in black ink]. Uncle Fester wears boxer shorts striped in a bright red and green.""Addams specialized in a bizarre brand of comedy founded on the inexplicable in nature and the antisocial in humanity Although he sold cartoons to many magazines during the 1930s and 1940s, Addams is most closely associated with The New Yorker, where his macabre sense of humor became a fixture. That magazine bought its first Addams cartoon in 1935"" (ANB). Novelist Wilfrid Sheed remembers Addams as ""a tall, laconic man, with a head he might have drawn himself and a voice straight out of Casket and Sunnyside, the mortician's manual."" Addams' prototypical American family, described by Sheed as ""an American classic, a Halloween version of Norman Rockwell and Grant Wood,"" inspired a hit television series and two movies. Price sticker to rear panel of dust jacket. With armorial bookplate of recipient Douglas Fairbanks Jr., famed ""actor, producer, administrator, bon vivant and Anglo-American ambassador,"" whose many films include Morning Glory (1933) with Katharine Hepburn and Prisoner of Zenda (1937). After a brief marriage to Joan Crawford, during WWII Fairbanks enlisted in the Navy, becoming ""the first American officer to command a British flotilla of raiding craft during a commando operation."" Using his ""prestige and administrative skills as a volunteer for the United Nations his contributions won him many honors, including Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire"" (New York Times).Interior fine; light wear to binding extremities. Light wear to extremities of bright dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine head. A near-fine copy with exceptional provenance, scarce with a sketch by Addams.

WENDELL WILLKIE STEPPING OUT OF A CAR by Greenhaus, Ben

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Seller: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts

Title: WENDELL WILLKIE STEPPING OUT OF A CAR
Author: Greenhaus, Ben
Seller: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts (United States)
Description: Greenhaus, Ben. Greenhaus, Ben (American, 1908-1951). WENDELL WILLKIE STEPPING OUT OF A CAR. Mounted gelatin silver photograph of Willkie, presumably during the campaign of 1940. c. 12 x 10 inches, mounted to 20 x 16 inches. The verso with the photographer's stamp (Greenhaus photographed for the New York Times) and a label of the Press Photographer's Association of New York stating that this photograph was included its Sixth Annual Exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry, Rockefeller Center, NY, March 29 to April 27, 1941. Wendell Willkie, 1892-1944, was a lawyer and utilities executive who was the Republican candidate for the US Presidency in 1940. The sandwich mount is not archival, showing some discoloration at the bevel, and chipping at the edges, but the photograph appears to be in very good condition.

The Checkered Demon III by S. Clay Wilson

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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA

Title: The Checkered Demon III
Author: S. Clay Wilson
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1979. Pictorial boards. Very Good +. A clean, crisp copy of this 1979 S. Clay Wilson offering, published by the formidable Last Gasp of San Francisco. Bright and VG+ to Near Fine in its wild stapled wrappers, with just a touch of very light creasing along the bottom-edges. Oblong octavo, raunchy, over-the-top work by one of the major American underground cartoonists, a central figure in the underground comix movement.

Scientific Discovery Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes by Pat Langley; Herbert A. Simon; Gary L. Bradshaw; Jan M. Zytkow

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Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA

Title: Scientific Discovery Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes
Author: Pat Langley; Herbert A. Simon; Gary L. Bradshaw; Jan M. Zytkow
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780262121163
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition: A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with only light rubbing to the spine head and flap folds. An exceptional copy of this look at computational explorations in information processing. Not remaindered and not ex-library; will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver by ADELMAN, Bob, Raymond Carver, and Tess Gallagher

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA

Title: Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver
Author: ADELMAN, Bob, Raymond Carver, and Tess Gallagher
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780684191669
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 159 pages. Features an introduction by Carver's widow Tess Gallagher. A fascinating book that features excerpts from Carver's unpublished letters and from some of his stories as well. Includes numerous black and white images by Bob Adelman. A fine copy in photo-illustrated boards in a very near fine dust jacket.

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