Creature Comforts
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Large Hardcover.
Smudge on rear jacket panel.
"Strange animals, witches & Goblins fill these pages of this book."
Humor
A Grossery of Limericks
New York: Norton, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink inscription on endpapter, jacket price clipped, faint edge wear.
Asimov, the scientific-literary jack-of-all-trades, and Ciardi, a serious poet with a ribald sense of humor, have collaborated on this copious collection of 288 wicked and witty limericks.
Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction 2: Build a Secret Agent Arsenal
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2011. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback.
5th printing. Faintly rubbed.
If you're a budding spy, what better way to conceal your clandestine activities than to miniaturize your secret agent arsenal? MiniWeapons of Mass Destruction 2 provides fully illustrated step-by-step instructions for building 30 different spy weapons and.....
Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction 3: Build Siege Weapons of the Dark Ages
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faintly rubbed.
Utilizing easy-to-find and inexpensive materials, this handy resource teaches desktop warriors how to build a multitude of medieval siege weapons for the modern era. Novice combatants will learn to build 35 defense weapons, including a marshmallow catapult.....
Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball Warfare
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Faintly rubbed.
We've come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies—binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils, and (of course) matches and barbeque lighters—troublemakers of all.....
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor
New York: Norton, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed.
Baker surveys this territory in this rich treasury and stakes it out in a dozen sections. Roaming through them, the reader will find P.J. O'Rourke, H.L. Mencken, James Thurber, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
A Treasury of Humor and Toastmaster's Handbook
New York: Grolier, 1955. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Spine lightly rubbed.
The first half of the book is filled with humorous short stories. The second half contains brief, amusing anecdotes that would be useful for beginning a toast.
F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2011. Soft Cover.
A fine copy.
"Celebrating the creative side of failure: "F" stands for "funny" in this perfect gift for students or anyone who has ever had to struggle through a test and needs a good laugh. This funny book for teens celebrates the creative.....
The Magic Moving Picture Book
New York: Dover, 1975. Stapled Binding.
Acetate card included in sleeve. Light water damage to first page.
29 pp. Ruled acetate screen. Push acetate up and down very slowly to create motion and many other startling illusions. "Volcanoes erupt, houses go up in flames, a steamboat plows through the water.....
Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom
New York: Pocket Books, 2001. 4th Printing. Hard Cover.
4th printing. An exceptional copy.
Based on her hit CD, the author presents a hilarious compilation of answering-machine messages from her overprotective mother, accompanied by anecdotes about the messages, emails from fans that share their own extreme maternal messages, and zany.....
Artemus Ward in London, and Other Papers (Volume Three)
New York / London: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1867. Howard, J.H. Hard Cover.
Includes plain brown paper jacket, which is unusual for books published in the 1800s, though this appears to be handmade by a previous owner (often called a colloquial jacket). Jacket split in two pieces at spine.....
Stamp Help Out! and Other Short Stories
New York: [Self-Published], 1962. First Thus. Soft Cover.
First edition, second state, with overstruck obscenities. Whited out price on front corner, small sticker ghost inside rear wrapper.
The first book by the irreverent comedian whose off-color brand of humor led to criminal charges of obscenity. In anticipation of the resulting.....
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
New York: Hyperion, 2005. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
George Carlin's legendary irreverence and iconoclasm are on full display in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? as he vainly scours the American landscape for signs of intelligence in his third national bestseller. Ranging from his.....
An Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor (Modern Library Giant G81)
New York: The Modern Library, 1954. Anderson, Doug. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1966 printing, Toledano G081.1, binding/jacket style G6/Gh, $3.95 jacket price, blank verso, blank endpapers. 1 inch closed tear and associated crease along top jacket edge, 1/8 chip from rear jacket edge, front hinge just beginning to weaken.
xvi, 688.....
The Cartoon History of Time
New York: Dover, 2013. Soft Cover.
Light edge wear.
What is time? How did it begin, and where will it end? Is time travel possible? How does the universe expand, and where do black holes come from? Junior Chicken and Alexis, the Quantum Cat, examine these and other extraordinary concepts.....
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things
New York: Flatiron Books, 2020. Hard Cover.
Bump to lower spine.
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious―curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig.....
The Abandoned Farmers: His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City to the Farm
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. Hard Cover.
No jacket, ink name on front endpaper, pencil name on second blank.
vii, 247 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated.....
The CollegeHumor Guide to College: Selling Kidneys for Beer Money, Sleeping with Your Professors, Majoring in Communications, and Other Really Good Ideas [College Humor]
New York: Dutton, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
An irreverent celebration of college life by two favorite columnists for CollegeHumor.com features off-kilter advice on a wide variety of topics, from drinking and dating to parents and roommates.
Rural Landmarks: "Their Portals Open to the Fine Peoples of Our Nation"
Chicago, Illinois: The Highlights Company, 1945. Hard Cover.
Includes several stereotypical illustrations of African-Americans. No jacket, bottom corners lightly rubbed, ink note on front endpaper.
Unpaginated. Includes several stereotypical illustrations of African-Americans. "Humorous tribute to the outhouse or the littlest room outside the house, with black-and-white illustrations."
The Complete Crumb Volume 11: Mr. Natural Committed to a Mental Institution!
Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1995. Crumb, R. [Robert Dennis]. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition.
vii, 126 pp. A collection of R. Crumb's work including Mr. Natural strips from 1976 and selections from numerous other publications. "With this volume, Fantagraphics reaches the midpoint in its project to reprint the entire body.....
Garfield: Food For Thought
New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faint edge wear.
"It's not that he doesn't have plenty to think about. Garfield could ponder the fact that he's the most popular cat in feline history. He could even examine his soul to discover why he's so funny.....
Brother Sebastian at Large (6160)
New York: Pocket Books, 1963. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
1st printing. Faint toning, lightly rubbed.
A collection of single-panel comics showing Brother Sebastian in a variety of humorous situations.
Rebellion and Reconciliation: Satirical Prints on the Revolution at Williamsburg
Williamsburg, Virginia: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1976. Large Hardcover.
Half-inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel. Page ridges very faintly foxed.
viii, 221 pp. "Illustrated in this catalog are 100 political satires on the American Revolution from the Colonial Williamsburg collection. Each full-page illustration is accompanied by a......
Test Your Wits, Vol. 2
New York: Ace Books, 1971. Mass Market Paperback.
Light stain along bottom edge of wrappers, top corner of front wrapper missing.
192 pp. "Illustrated with ingenious visual aids, Vol. II plays fair and square--all clues are spelled out or illustrated, and there are no hidden traps. You'll find: numbers games.....
You're Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children
New York: Random House, 1986. 5th Printing. Large Hardcover.
Fifth printing. Left jacket flap clipped, jacket edges toned, ink gift note.
"You're Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children is a 1986 picture book for growing-up people by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). Released on Geisel's eighty-second birthday,[1] the.....