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By: Armour, Richard
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: (c.1958)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6976
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[some wear at heel of spine, bottom corners lightly bumped, otherwise a nice clean copy with a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown; jacket has some edge/corner wear,a bit rubbed, front flap vertically creased]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep with a generic inscription ("All good wishes"). More "Lighthearted Light Verse." Signed by Author View more info
By: Armour, Richard
Price: $6.00
Publisher: New York, Mcgraw-Hill Book Company: 1968
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 12903
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
(price-clipped) [good solid copy, light soiling to bottom edge; jacket shows minor edgewear, some diagonal creasing at corners of both flaps]. "Starting with the girl next door, who taught him the difference between the sexes when he was eight years old, [the author] tells of his troubles with women in high school, in college, and ever since. Armour was never the Great Lover. He was the Great Loser. Much as they may boast in public, many men will identify with him and laugh through their tears or cry through their laughter. It seemed impossible that this Utter Failure would ever marry.... View more info
By: Baring, Maurice
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Wilton, Salisbury, U.K., Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd.: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20789
ISBN: 0-85955-086-9
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[no siginficant wear to book, light spotting/foxing to edges of text block, one-time owner's name on ffep; jacket lightly rubbed, with faint soiling]. Letters home from a Royal Flying Corps staff officer stationed on the Western Front during World War I -- eccentric, whimsical, and sometimes just plain weird, written as "a civilising distraction from the mental and physical discomforts of the war, written to someone who may have missed a good deal of the subtleties, but who has done us all the favour of fostering the flow." (This someone, Lady Juliet Duff, is described in the book's ... View more info
By: Barkins, Evelyn
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Frederick Fell, Inc.: (c.1955)
Edition: Unstated edition
Seller ID: 16547
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good in Good dj
(price-clipped) [minor shelfwear, top corners slightly bumped, light dust-soiling to top edge, a touch of fading to cloth at top of spine, small bookstore stamp at bottom corner of front pastedown; jacket shows general wear at edges, small tears at a couple of corners, soiling to rear panel, spine title quite faded]. The author got a lot of literary mileage out of her experiences as "the glamorous young wife of a busy Westchester physician," this being her fourth book about the having and raising of his kids. In this one, her pregnancy with #4 occasions much concern and attention from... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1924
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17449
Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj
[solid copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, dust-soiling and rubbing to red topstain; jacket has numerous chips (especially at spine, including loss of most of book title), and is split at rear hinge, but front panel is substantially complete and still attractive]. (20 full-page line drawings) Humorous essays by "a philosopher by profession, a humorist by nature, a New Englander by residence, an Oxford man by education, and an Irishman by birth." (That's just one guy, not five.) The author's "topics range from the jazz orchestra of the future to the next war." View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22405
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice tight copy with no discernible wear; jacket very clean and attractive, with a short closed tear and associated creasing at top of spine]. (line drawings) "A wildly amusing first-person narrative (from tapes) by a phantom William Shakespeare, in which the Bard of Avon's ghost discusses many things -- particularly the charges that he didn't write the plays. He demolishes Marlowe, the Baconian Society, Ben Jonson, and others. He also proves, for some readers, that Queen Elizabeth was the real playwright." Blatty's third (and scarcest) book. View more info
By: Blechman, R.O.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17515
ISBN: 1-55670-548-4
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice clean copy, no discernible wear to book; tiny scrape to jacket near bottom right-hand corner]. (cartoon sketches) The eccentric cartoonist's re-imagining of the story of Jonah (including the Whale episode). View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15274
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[moderately shelfworn book, light bumping to bottom corners, spine slightly turned; jacket edgeworn, a little browned at spine, worn at spine ends, one tiny chip at bottom of front panel, small tears with very minor paper loss at front corners]. (line drawings) The true story, more or less, of the U.S.S. Margaret, the most notorious ("the worst," in the author's words) of the many private vessels that were pressed into service for submarine patrol by the U.S. Navy during World War I. A former pleasure yacht, the Maggie "was an old, old lady, never built to go out of sight of land... View more info
By: Cummings, Parke
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1948
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 15174
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[lightly bumped at several corners, stray pencil smudge on fore-edge, contemporary gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; jacket shows a bit of wear at extremities, minor tears and dog-earing along top edge, light soiling, browing at flap edges, short diagonal crease at top corner of front flap]. (cartoon illustrations) Humorous "survey" of human behavior, in which the author and his crack team of researchers (a Professor Tewksbury of State University -- which state, the author never found out -- and Al, a guy recruited at a local tavern) discovered "that men sweep crumbs under... View more info
By: Dunn, Bob
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Co.: (c.1936)
Edition: Unstated edition
Seller ID: 14402
Condition: Good
[worn but intact copy, small piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front cover and first few pages, small tear at top of front cover (also extending slightly into first few pages), pages browned with age but not brittle; one-time owner's name and date in pencil at top inside front cover]. (cartoon drawings) Wacky cartoon drawings illustrating a sort of variant form of charades, in this case focused exclusively on acting out "familiar phrases and popular sayings," e.g.: "Hip, Hip, Hooray"; "Shuffle Off to Buffalo"; "Starting from Scratch"; you get the ide... View more info
By: Dunn, Mary
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20900
ISBN: NO
Condition: Good
(no dust jacket) [some wear and fading to cloth at base of spine, top corners bumped, light general wear, faint bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.)]. (B&W photographs) The second (of two) Lady Addle books, gently satirical faux memoirs in which the fictional Lady Blanche Addle (née Coot), daughter of the 13th Earl of Coot, gushingly details the utterly mundane details of her utterly uninteresting life as a member of the British upper crust, with the humor (and the book really is quite funny) arising from Lady A's obliviousnes... View more info
By: Feder, Mark
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Bloch Publishing Company: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21390
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[very light shelfwear to book, spine just slightly turned; jacket shows some wear along top and bottom edges, minor paper loss at top of spine, tiny closed tear at bottom of front panel]. (pen and ink drawings) "This is not a joke book," states the author in his Preface. "I prefer to call it a personalized collection of anecdotes and experiences directly related to my work as an itinerant story-teller." The author had a syndicated newspaper column called "Live & Laugh," and from about the time this book was published until 1972 he served as the drama director of the ... View more info
By: Griffith, Bill, and Jay Kinney, comp.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: San Francisco, And/Or Press: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22685
Condition: Very Good+
[nice clean copy, minor edgewear, short closed tear at bottom edge of rear cover]. Trade PB (comic strip and cartoon illustrations) Unexpurgated reprint of the first three issues of the legendary "underground romance comic" devoted to the titular emotion and its related activities, "with additional revelatory text by Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney," who between them wrote and/or illustrated much of the content. Not for sale to minors. View more info
By: Gross, Milt
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16552
Condition: Good
(no dust jacket) [a decent copy, shelfwear to bottom edge, binding cracking in middle of book, top front corner bumped, spine darkened and a bit soiled]. (cartoon drawings) Not-quite-Yiddish versions of the lives and exploits of Halan from Troy, Lady Godiwa, Loocritchia Borgia, etc., along with "heestorical" accounts of other episodes, e.g. "How It Got Inwanted Tenksgeeving Day," "An Antidote from De Bustun Tippotty," etc. Effrytink you knowed iss ronk. View more info
By: Herford, Oliver
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: (c.1918)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18829
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[light wear to edges of paper-covered boards, minor soiling to top page edges; jacket has one tiny chip at top of front panel, water-staining along spine and near bottom right corner of front panel, short closed tear at top of rear panel]. pen & ink drawings) "To see the Kaiser's Epitaph / would make a weeping willow laugh." Humorous doggerel by the writer/illustrator sometimes referred to as "the American Oscar Wilde," much of it thematically related to World War I ("The Air Raid"; "Marching to Berlin"; "The Touching Ballad of General von Beers"; etc.)... View more info
By: Hewes, Cady (Bernard DeVoto)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1957
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5909
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[nice clean copy, but bottom front corner worn through (exposed board), tiny tear in binding at top of spine; jacket a bit rubbed, moderate edge/corner wear, a couple of tears and some paper loss at top of spine]. Suburban humor of the Fifties. View more info
By: King Kong, as told to Walter Wager
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York/London, Collier Books/Collier Macmillan Publishers: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14091
ISBN: 0-02-040750-5
Condition: Very Good+
[tight and clean book, moderate edgewear]. Trade PB The big ape tells his side of the story. "Piercing the sham, ripping off the veils, and lying a lot to get even, the planet's suavest and most sympathetic simian lets it all hang out." View more info
By: Koren, Edward
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: (c.1983)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3168
ISBN: 0-394-53322-4
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[small dent in bottom of rear cover; jacket mildly rubbed, slight wear along top edge]. (cartoons) A collection of the author's New Yorker cartoons from 1980-1983. View more info
By: Milligan, Spike, and Jack Hobbs
Price: $5.00
Publisher: London, Penguin Books: 1989 (c.1988)
Edition: 1st printing thus
Seller ID: 1279
ISBN: 0140119353
Condition: Near Fine
[virtually as new, with the teensiest bit of handling wear]. Mass Market PB (B&W drawings) "Yes, folks. The further, incredible, utterly amazing, irrefutable facts about Scotland's worst-ever poet." View more info
By: Pearce, Donald; illustrated by Arnold Roth
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc.: (c.1967)
Edition: Presumed 1st
Seller ID: 8008
Condition: Very Good
[solid copy, minor wear at extremities, "V" in ink on top edge, brief gift notation on front pastedown, a little sunning to spine]. A compilation of creative and unintentionally wacky (and occasionally accidentally profound) turns of phrase, excerpted from the essays of college freshmen. (Random example: "The Greeks and the Romans at the very height of their civilizations never had it so good.") The author (a college English professor) assures us that he didn't make anything up. View more info
