Further Fables For Our Time -- 1504 (Complete Unabridged)
Penguin, 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. UK mass market edition, 1960. 47 fables for adults. First published by Hamish Hamilton, 1956. [154 pages]. More
Penguin, 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. UK mass market edition, 1960. 47 fables for adults. First published by Hamish Hamilton, 1956. [154 pages]. More
Pennyfarthing Editions/Dorset, June 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. More
ECW Press, September 2022. Paper Back. A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist shreds the GOP's record of backward policies and abysmal leaders. Luckovich takes aim at the NRA, Trump, Bush, Ted Cruz, and more. The Twisted History of the GOP is an editorial cartoon exploration into the ongoing crack-up of the..... More
Riverhead Trade, October 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition with full number line. Minor shelf wear on the cover. More
Grove Press / Evergreen Black Cat, 1972. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Third printing. Clean & sound. Darkened margins to internal pages. [118 pages]. More
Anchor Books, January 1931. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Originally published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1931. Reprinted here for Anchor series. Darkened/dust stained margins on cover. [253 pages plus two page list of Anchor titles available]. More
PENGUIN BOOKS, 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. UK edition. Mass market paperback with slightly slanted spine. Mild darkening of spine with bubbling vertical crease down center. Damp stained textblock fore-edge toward top right corner. Textblock edges dust stained/darkened. [286 pages]. More
Plume, October 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. DON'T MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON'S COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHING'S TRASH--NOW ON FREEFORM! New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our..... More
Ballantine, January 1967. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Quarter inch scar and other moderate shelf wear on the cover. Tender spine. More
Viking, October 2017. Hardcover. "I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size." --Jon Stewart Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John..... More
Penguin, 1962. Reprint. Paper Back. Mass market paperback with mildly cocked spine, dust stains and edgewear. Drawing of Bertie Wooster on cover with a cow statuette in hand. Two angry men are in background holding a shotgun and pointing at our hero. [238 pages]. More
Harcourt Brace, January 1960. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Darkened spine and darkened margins of front and rear boards. Mild damp staining. Bumped to top edge of front board. Ochre end pages. Previous owner's name in ink ffep. Erratra slip tipped in before title page. [304 pages]... More
Dover Publications Inc., September 1968. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo paperback with shelf wear. [389 plus sixteen page catalogue of Dover books]. More
New York Review Comics, November 2022. Hardcover. Years before he wrote his National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage, Charles Johnson created these sidesplitting and subversive gag comics about Black life in America, now collected for the first time in nearly half a century. Before Charles Johnson found fame as a...... More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 1992. Trade Paperback. If puritanism is, as H.L. Mencken once said, the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy, then this glorious, monumental collection by one of England's most popular humorists is a puritan's nightmare. Focusing primarily on the 19th and 20th century, but..... More
Penguin Books, March 1988. Paper Back. From Woody Allen to P.G. Wodehouse, the last hundred years offer a rich banquet of humor. Just about any topic under the sun can inspire witty remarks. Fred Metcalf's clearly cross-referenced anthology provides countless gems--ideal for after-dinner speakers, would-be wags, and anyone in search..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, September 2010. Hardcover. Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and many others, appear in this delightful anthology, which has been hailed as delightful (Wall Street..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, October 1989. Oversize Softcover. More
Abrams, September 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. From its first issue in April, 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors..... More
Oxford University Press, July 1990. Trade Paperback. From Plautus, Cervantes, and Charles Dickens to Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Heller, and Tom Stoppard, from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Arsenic and Old Lace and Woody Allen, this concise and readable book provides a thorough introduction to comic criticism. Nelson argues that there..... More
Ticknor & Fields, April 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
St. Martin's Press, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to..... More
simon & schuster, April 0196. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first U.S. edition in tattered, torn jacket with darkened spine and jacket edges. Front flap is clipped bottom corner. This is an advance review copy with review slip laid in. Otherwise it is just an ordinary hardcover edition. It is not a...... More
Garden City Publishing, October 1947. Reprint. Cloth. Originally published by Random House in 1946. This is a reprint on paper stock cheaper than the mother company's own stock. Tje re[romt used plates from the original edition with the same dustjacket design. In edge worn/chipped jacket with heavy foxing & dust..... More
Viking Adult, April 1998. Hardcover. Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a giant hairball--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at..... More