Key Ted Illustrated (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated By Ted Key (illustrator). Nap. Scant wear to brown cover, gold lettering on front cover & on spine. Sewn binding. 83 pages, no stamps or writing. Size: 7 1/2" X 5 ". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good++. No Jacket. Illustrated By Author (illustrator). Nap. 48 pages, Picture cover. Light edgewear, numbers written inside lower front cover at corner. Size: 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Ted Key (illustrator). 16 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated (illustrator). Dj has heavy edgewear with a few big chunks missing & light soiling. Book cocked. Lightly bumped corners. Light soiling. Inked gift inscription & date on front endpage.

Hardcover. Condition: VG to VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Second Printing. DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; small chips/creases/closed tears; remains of old price sticker on flap. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; mark/scuff on free endpage from old price sticker; some yellowing; otherwise overall clean & tight. 128 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj and illus) Ted Key (illustrator). First Edition. [light shelfwear to bottom edges, tiny rip in cloth at top of spine; the jacket is moderately edgeworn and a bit faded at the spine, with shallow chipping along the top edge, a bit of paper loss at both ends of the spine, and some surface-scarring to the lower section of the spine]. (cartoon drawings) A history of humor, highlighting "the health-giving powers of humor, the pain dispensing powers of wit, the value of laughter to the salesman, the speaker, the politician or to the tired soul beset by his daily problems." Although jacket-blurbed as a "sound, informative and altogether entertaining volume," there is also a patina of pedantry, as the author dutifully runs through all the varieties of humor -- ridicule, wit, riddles, conundrums, puns, repartee, etc. (with copious examples of each) -- perhaps due to his academic credentials as "a member of the Department of Classical Languages and Archaeology at the University of Tennessee [and] the author of many articles on various aspects of humor which have appeared in several Psychological and Classical journals" (which are of course well-known hotbeds of belly-laughs). The proceedings are enlivened a bit by the cartoon illustrations of Ted Key (famous as the creator of the newspaper strip "Hazel"), but it's not hard to imagine an altogether different sort of book that might have been written by, say, Richard Armour (in which case it would have been called "It All Started with the Cavemen").

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Frank Owen (illustrator). 1st. Jacket corners bumped and slightly; quarto; 68 pages Very Good chipped, two 1" tears top jacket, chip out top back, 1" fading area front jacket, some edge tears and creasing.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Hughes; D'Andrea, Bernard; Stevens, Peter; Ludlow, Mike (illustrator). First Edition. 116 pages. Features: Kids say the darndest things (part 1 of 3); Ivan goes to sea - what is behind the unparalleled build-up of the Red Navy?; Lawyer for the Defense - James D.C. Murray; Jim Tatum of the Tarheels; The Face of America - Pirates on the Porch (trick or treat); Artificial Arteries Can Save your Life; The Don't Need Progress. Serials: Murder on my Street (par 1 of 7); Trouble at Midas Creek (part 5 of 7). Short Stories: New Man in Her Life; The Sin of Sister Louise; Three Days' Leave; The Crying Cop. Ads: Yale & Towne color-photo ad shows loader with Niagara Falls in background; Otarion Listener ad features Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Lee de Forest, Sumner C. Hayward and Car F. Woods; Motorola TV; Sensational 1958 Chevrolet Truck ad features two-page illustrations of yellow trucks; Lucky Strike cigarettes; Winston cigarettes; Great two-page B-58 Buick ad; Nice color two-page ad for the 1958 Dodge trucks; Philco Slender Seventeen TVs; Wow - two-page color Edsel ad!; Color-photo ad for the Boeing 707 features photos of William Flynn of the Boston Globe, authors Walton and Richard Tregaskis, Albert D. Hughes of the Christian Science Monitor and Lucia Lewis of the Chicago Daily News; U.S. Savings Bond ad features Harriet Quimby, first woman in the world to fly the English Channel; Betty Crocker Marble Cake Mix (back cover). Somewhat average wear. Bits of tape remnant upon front cover. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, November (Nov.) 2, 1957 - Jim Tatum of the Tarheels Kids say the darndest things (part 1 of 3); Ivan goes to sea - what is behind the unparalleled build-up of the Red Navy?; Lawyer for the Defense - James D.C. Murray; Jim Tatu.