New York: Akashic Books, 2011. Ricardo Cortes. Seventeenth Printing. Hardcover. Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate and refreshingly honest, it..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2004. Paperback. More
Sydney: Macmillan Children's Books, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. Find the perfect silly joke in this collection from Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, the creators of the internationally bestselling Treehouse series. Q: How do monkeys make toast? A: They put it under a gorilla! Q: What's grey and powdery? A...... More
London: The Folio Society, 1985. ffolkes (illustrations). Second Printing. Hardcover. With these deceptively simple words Lorelei Lee, a not-so-dumb blonde with a single-minded devotion to orchids, diamonds and champagne, embarks on what Edith Wharton was to call, perhaps not entirely seriously, ‘the great American novel’. Written in diary form, Lorelei..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1983. Steve Mendelson (illustrations). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Art Buchwald is one of the leading Ronald Reagan watchers in America. While other Reagan watchers have observed the President while he is awake, Buchwald is the only one who has caught Mr. Reagan while he was..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "You Can Fool All of the People All the Time" -- but you can only fool Art Buchwald half the time. In this, his twenty-first book, Mr. Buchwald takes another look at the Reagan administration, to see if it..... More
London: Studio Press, 2018. First UK Edition. Fourth Printing. Paperback. A hilarious joke book filled with the best jokes from the Beano comic book. From rib-tickling knock-knock jokes to hysterical Doctor, Doctor gags and everything in between, this book has a joke for every occasion. As well as the..... More
Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1969. Paperback. More
New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More
Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1988. Softcover. With a foreword by Charles M. Schulz Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury..... More
Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. "Mammy" is what Irish children call their mothers and The Mammy is Agnes Browne—a widow struggling to raise seven children in a North Dublin neighborhood in the 1960s. Popular Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll chronicles the comic misadventures of this large and lively family..... More
New York: The Viking Press (A Studio Book), 1982. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
London: John Murray, 1963. Oscar Lancaster (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. More
Hong Kong: WIPS Women In Publishing in Hong Kong, 2020. Paperback. An exciting collection of new fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, travelogue, commentary, humour and artwork and much more. The literary and artistic skills of over 50 members combine in our 19th and latest high quality issue. "Women..... More
London: Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1989. Gray Jolliffe (cartoons). First Edition. Trade Paperback. More
Editions Mille et une Nuit, 1994. Clab. Paperback. More
Columbus: Weekly Reader Books, 1977. Hardcover. More
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983. Ian Beck (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange..... More
New York: Dramatist's Play Service Inc, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. Staple Bound. Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello. Two short pieces of theatre which are monologues. More
London: Pan Books, 1985. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. Edited and introduced by Geoffrey Perkins With another introduction by Douglas Adams This collection features all twelve original radio scripts of the Hitchhiker as it was written and exactly as it was broadcast for the very first time. They..... More
NY: Ballantine Books, 2005. Paperback. The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads–so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They..... More
London: Pan Books, 1989. Chris Moore (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying..... More
London: Heinemann, 1992. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final part in Douglas Adams' much-loved cult classic series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. After years of..... More
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