Baird Jones, Sexual Humor, Philosophical Library, Book with Related Ephemera, 1987

$150

Lot includes book and related party invitation.

Baird Jones, Sexual Humor. Philosophical Library (New York), 1987. 353 pp. With original dust jacket.

Invitation to party for (never released) paperback edition of Sexual Humor, 1990. Ink on card stock, 5 1/2″ x 2 3/4″.

Baird’s academic monograph, published by Philosophical Library, applies Freudian psychoanalytic theory to a collection of cartoons, limericks, and jokes.

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Sexual Humor (cover)

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Cartoons collected in Sexual Humor

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Party invitation, “Announcing that the hard cover edition of Baird Jones’ Psychoanalysis of Sexual Humor [sic] has now sold out and that the publishers, Philosophical Library, have decided to put out a paperback edition, which will be available in bookstores soon!” The paperback edition was never published.

 

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Few people personify the free-wheeling, polymorphous spirit of fin-de-siècle downtown New York as well as the idiosyncratic curator, club party promoter, photographer, author, and celebrity gossip Baird Jones.