Humor
My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag... and Other Things You Can't Ask Martha
Plume Books, February 2014. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Wise and funny. . . . The Lorrie Moore short story, or the Tina Fey memoir, of cleaning tutorials."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Thrillingly titled. . . . For a generation overwhelmed not just by dust bunnies, but by..... More
How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, June 2023. Hardcover. From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells the hilarious, shocking, and spiritually profound story of one man's journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage. One gorgeous autumn..... More
With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look At Misanthropy
St. Martin's Griffin, March 1993. Trade Paperback. The unreconstructed people-hater offers her piece de resistance: a guided tour of the misanthropic life, and an inspirational handbook for Americans grown tired of goo-goo humanitarianism and sensitivity that never sleeps. The only trouble with this book is that its covers are too..... More
Librorum Ridiculorum: A Compendium of Bizarre Books
HarperCollins, April 2023. Hardcover. A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop. Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons... and others are simply mad. This wonderful celebration of the oddest books ever published..... More
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
Harmony Books, March 1990. Trade Paperback. Octavo. 2nd printing. A few spots of soiling along fore-edge. [154 pages]. More
Twentieth Century Parody: American and British
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
The Twisted History of the GOP
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
The Twisted History of the GOP
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
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
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
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Scribner, September 2008. Trade Paperback. The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly. In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he..... More
Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Random House Inc, September 2003. Trade Paperback. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything..... More
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great
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
The Walpole orange: A romance
Bantam, January 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. In price clipped dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Orange end pages. Signed on title page. Muir was featured on the long running BBC/NPR radio show 'My Word.' The show continued to be Broadcast long after Muir passing in 1998..... More
Comedy: An Introduction to Comedy in Literature, Drama, and Cinema
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
In the Year 2000
Riverhead Trade, October 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition with full number line. Minor shelf wear on the cover. More
The Most of S. J. Perelman
Simon and Schuster, January 1958. Reprint. Hardcover. Third printing in much chipped, tattered & torn, dust stained, with tears. Front flap is clipped. Heavily darkened & dust stained off white spine with red and blue lettering on spine. Red paper covered boards with black & yellow author initials. Heavily foxed..... More
Keep It Crisp
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
THE BEST OF S. J. PERELMAN
The Modern Library, 1947. First Thus. Cloth. First Modern Library Edition. 12mo. Five-inch x Seven-inch; yellow staining/discoloration in lip that runs parallel to spine front & rear panel. Slate-gray cloth covered boards with gold lettering & gold tooled border in black rectangle front board panel & spine. Spotty discoloration to..... More
Chinglish: Found in Translation
Gibbs Smith, August 2007. Trade Paperback. Chinglish offers a humorous and insightful look at misuses of the English language in Chinese street signs, products, and advertising. A long-standing favorite of English speaking tourists and visitors, Chinglish is now quickly becoming a culture relic: in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games..... More
More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues
Gibbs Smith Publishers, January 2009. Trade Paperback. More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues offers a fresh look at the unintentional but very funny creative misuses of the English language in Chinese street signs, products, and advertising. Enjoy 100 brand-new examples of this unique cultural heritage, which, due to efforts from the..... More
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Atria / 37 INK, July 2016. Trade Paperback. The "brilliantly wry" (Lena Dunham) and "lovably awkward" (Mindy Kaling) New York Times bestseller from the creator of HBO's Insecure. In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular w. More
Fraud: Essays
Anchor Books, April 2002. Trade Paperback. From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in..... More
All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents
Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2014. Hardcover. In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefs--they challenge myths about how fair and democratic our..... More
