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By: Adams, Joey
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NY, Crown Publishers: 1976
Seller ID: 001747
ISBN: 051752788X
Condition: Very Good +
186 pp.Several b&w photos scattered through text. Very light wear, no markings, binding firm. Joey Adams spins memories of Friars Club roasts over the decades including those that targeted Sinatra and other Rat Packers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Adams, Scott
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo., Andrews McNeel Publishing: 2003
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 002699
ISBN: 0740732986
Condition: Good
128 pp., Glossy cover. Spine uncreased, dampstain on a few corners. No markings. Collection No. 21 of Dilbert antics. Includes new characters, such as M.T. Suit and Psycho Hillbilly. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Adams, Scott
Price: $5.50
Publisher: NY, HarperBusiness (HarperCollins): 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002768
Condition: Fine
Nearly new, no markings. Unpaginated, about 100 pp. of text and cartoons. Evil Dogbert, the human resources devil, gives his management training manual, written in Dilbert style. View more info
By: Adler, Bill, Ed.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: NY, MacMillan: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002420
Condition: Very Good
270 pp. Very clean, no markings, slight foxing on upper part of foredge, text clean. The number 50049 appears on bottom right corner of rear cover. Adler gives a sampling of humor from Washington officialdom of the '60s, including chapters on Robert F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Johnson Administration officials, plus various congressmen. View more info
By: Amory, Cleveland
Price: $3.00
Publisher: NY, Penguin Books: 1995
Edition: Later Printing.
Seller ID: 009773
ISBN: 0140252738
Condition: Very Good
240 pp. Light wear, corner crease and thumbing. Text clean. Amory tells how he was tamed by an alley cat he dubbed Polar Bear. Size: 12mo-7.75 in Tall View more info
By: Armistead Maupin
Price: $6.00
Publisher: NY, HarperPerennial: 1900
Edition: 1989 Reissue.
Seller ID: 010022
ISBN: 0060964049
Condition: Near Fine
371 pp. Nearly new, slightly thumbed. Spine uncreased, no markings in text. Gift quality. A reissue of a collection of short stories telling the romantic adventures of yuppies living in an apartment house in San Francisco. Became the basis of a television series and film. First of six volumes. This edition has a light pastel border of geometric shapes framing a detail shot of a staircase leading up Barbary Street. First published as columns in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1970s. Size: 8vo -- 9.25 in Tall View more info
By: Austen, Jane and Grahame-Smith, Seth
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Quirk Books:
Seller ID: 009988
Condition: Very Good
319 pp. Light wear, no spine creasing. Light thumbing. Text clean. A satirical novel that presents proper Victorian characters speaking Austenese in a comic battle with bands of roving zombies. Size: 8v0 -- -- 8 in Tall View more info
By: Barry, Dave
Price: $5.50
Publisher: NY, NY: Fawcett Columbine, 1988: 1988
Edition: 17th Printing
Seller ID: 002511
ISBN: 0449904067
Condition: Very Good +
Trade Paperback. Very Good +. 17th Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 287 pp. Nearly new, slight toning. No markings. A collection of 81 Dave Barry humor columns. View more info
By: Benny, Jack and Benny, Joan
Price: $3.00
Publisher: NY, Warner Books: 1990
Seller ID: 000111
ISBN: 0446515469
Condition: Near Fine
302 pp. 30 pp. b&w photos., tape on dj. Foreword by George Burns. Benny and his daughter relate their family life. View more info
By: Botkin, B.A.
Price: $6.50
Publisher: NY, Crown Publishers: 1944
Edition: 6th Printing.
Seller ID: 010087
Condition: Very Good
932 pp. Index. Blue cloth, with sunned spine, faded titling, browned endpapers. Text clean, binding firm. Bumped corners. A Library of Congress folklorist has assembled a broad sampling of American folklore from all regions -- anecdotes, folksongs, tall tales, jokes, legends, etc. with notes on sources, which include books, old newspaper articles, field research,etc. . Edited for a popular readership, but includes material of interest to scholars. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Size: 8vo -- -8.5 In View more info
By: Bracken, Peg
Price: $7.00
Publisher: NY, Harcourt Brace & World: 1966
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 005610
Condition: Very Good +
179 pp. Still bright and close to new, no markings. Small ding on top edge of dj's front panel. Binding firm. A humorous follow-up to her classic "I Hate to Cook Book." This volume blends recipes with culinary philosophy, designed for the busy person who wants to minimize time and aggravation in the kitchen. Cover blurb promises "140 recipes and 323 afterthoughts." Published as feminism was gaining momentum; more relevant than ever in today's age of two-earner couples. Size: 8vo -- 8.25 in. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Camden Maine, Yankee Books: 1991
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Seller ID: 009119
ISBN: 0899092268
Condition: Very Good
234 pp. Light spine creasing. No markings. Light wear. An anthology of nearly 200 years of humorous observations of New England life and character, including profiles of the individual states. Authors include Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Cleveland Amory, E.B. White, John Gould and many once-famous newspaper writers. Size: 8vo -- 9 in Tall View more info
Price: $6.50
Publisher: NY, W.W. Norton & Co.: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001871
ISBN: 0393027104
Condition: Very Good
335 pp. Some soil to cover, text clean, no markings, light edgewear on spine. A University of Utah English professor collects a broad sampling of modern urban legends and adds a dash of humor in the retelling. View more info
By: Buchwald, Art
Price: $3.00
Publisher: NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1983
Seller ID: 001231
ISBN: 0399128417
Condition: Good +
334 pp. Dj chipped at bottom. DJ lettering faintly bled thru to front yellow board. Small dent bottom of front cover. Light dampstain to corners of boards; stains on edges. Text bright andclean, no marks. A collection of Buchwald's satirical columns about the Reagan administration. DJ shows Buchwald in nightshirt, prayhing. Rear panel has humorous cartoon of Buchwald in old-lady drag, clutching infant Reagan in nightcap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Cantor, Jay
Price: $3.00
Publisher: NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988:
Seller ID: 000128
ISBN: 0394550250
Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Ex-Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 245 pp. Novel based on Krazy Kat comic strip by George Herrimon, a romance at the dawn of the nuclear age. Ex-libris sticker f.e.p. View more info
By: Carlin, George
Price: $3.00
Publisher: NY, Hyperion Books: 2001
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 005890
ISBN: 0786864133
Condition: Near Fine
269 pp. Nearly new, no markings, small rip in dj corner. A collection of Carlin's earthy observations, quips and short essays. It's his second book, a follow-up to "Brain Droppings." Size: 8vo -- 8.25 in Tall View more info
By: Carter, John
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Daytona Beach Florida, The News-Journal Corp.: 2001
Edition: 2nd Printing.
Seller ID: 006083
Condition: Near Fine
273 pp. Close to new, no markings. Spine uncreased. Slight yellowing spot on rear cover near top edge. Color cover sketch by Steve McLachlin. A delightful collection of newspaper columns by the late John Carter, who amused Daytona Beach readers with tales of his boyhood in Jacksonville and the Old Florida characters and folkways that he cherished. Carter worked at the Daytona Beach News-Journal for nearly 15 years, and his catch phrases and anecdotes are still repeated by News-Journal oldtimers. Affectionate tales about him were recounted at the N-J Reunion Jam held Jan. 8, 2011 in Port Orange... View more info
By: Cohen, Joseph
Price: $5.50
Publisher: NY, Broadway Books (Random House): 2004
Edition: Later Printing.
Seller ID: 009506
Condition: Fine
107 pp. on glossy stock. Close to new, small dent in bottom edge, dust jacket has some scuffing. No markings. A lighthearted collection of true facts and trivia mixed with urban legends about the penis. Presented from both a hetero and homosexual perspective. Many color photos, cartoons and graphics. Ideal joke gift or a facts-of-life resource for a teenager of any age. Photo of a banana adorns the front cover. You may laugh but you're likely to learn something new from this mini-book. Size: 12mo -- 7 in By 7 in Square Format View more info
Price: $3.50
Publisher: Wheaton, Ill., Key Publications: 1972
Edition: 3rd Edition.
Seller ID: 004181
Condition: Good
128 pp. Soil to covers, dampstain on rear cover, title page. Textblock clean. No markings. Foreword by Richard Nixon, introduction by Art Linkletter, who conceived the project. A collection of scores of letters children wrote to the White House during Nixon's administration. Linkletter says they were selected on a nonpartisan basis. A humorous assortment that gives no hint of the clouds of Watergate that were starting to gather. A few refer to the Vietnam war, however./ feb 2016, orig 4, m-dto 3.50 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
Price: $2.70
Publisher: NY, Penguin: 1986
Seller ID: 001986
ISBN: 014015910X
Condition: Very Good
808 pp. Binding firm, tiny chip on cover. No markings. Humorous tales about a quaint Canadian city. Contents: Malice, A Mixture of Frailties and Tempest-Tost. View more info
