Why Not Me? The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency
London: Penguin Books, 2004. Paperback. More
Humor
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The Best of Ann Landers: Her Favourite Letters of All Time
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1997. Reprint. Paperback. "Getting advice from Ann Landers is like chatting with a neighbor across the back fence." --Los Angeles Times In a career spanning nearly half a century, Ann Landers has counseled millions of people with her comforting words, wise advice, and..... More
While Reagan Slept
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
"You Can Fool All of the People All the Time"
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
A Present of Laughter: Wit and Nonsense in Pictures and Verse
New York: The Viking Press (A Studio Book), 1982. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
Girl Chasing: How to Improve Your Game
London: Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1989. Gray Jolliffe (cartoons). First Edition. Trade Paperback. More
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Columbus: Weekly Reader Books, 1977. Hardcover. More
The Santaland Diaries and Season's Greetings
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
Pidgin To Da Max
Honolulu: The Bess Press Inc, 1986. Softcover. A local favorite, Pidgin To Da Max is an amusingly illustrated dictionary of pidgin English. "If you've been around the islands for a while you must have run into Peppo's Pidgin to Da Max 1981, its sequel Peppo's Pidgin to Da Max..... More
Dinkum Dunnies
New South Wales: Eclipse Books, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. More
A Book at Bathtime
London: Coronet Books, 1983. Paperback. A humurous guide to baths and bathing through the ages. More
The Space Child's Mother Goose
Kentucky: Purple House Press, 2001. Marian Parry (illustrations). Softcover. Only a few years ago (1950s) we walked on solid earth. Today we whirl through space. Space is big. It is not cozy. But with these verses and drawings… cheerfulness breaks in. Suddenly, science seems merry. And space begins, with the..... More
Don Camillo and His Flock
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1965. Giovanni Guareschi (illustrations). Sixth Printing. Paperback. From Kirkus (Aug. 25, 1952): More about The Little World at Don Camillo, written with the same exuberance, understanding, imaginative insight. The friendly feud between the stalwart priest and the Communist Mayor Peppone continues with vim and..... More
Comrade Don Camillo
Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1966. Brian Haynes (cover design). Paperback. More
The Lilt of The Irish: An Encyclopedia of Irish Folklore and Humor
New York: Jonathan David Publishers, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Tales Out of Night School
New York: Permabooks, 1959. First Permabook Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Permabooks no. M 4151. More
The Private Eye Annual 2005
London: Private Eye Productions Ltd, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover (Outsized). More
Best Television Humor of the Year
New York: Ace Books, Inc, 1956. Paperback. Ace Books no. D-175. More
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
NY: Harper Collins, 2003. Paperback. Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Accidentally built sideways and standing thirty stories high (the builder said he was very sorry for the mistake)..... More
See Here, Private Hargrove
New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1943. First Pocket Book Edition. Paperback. Pocket Books No. 206. More
MacDoodle St.
New York: New York Review Comics, 2019. Reissue. Hardcover. A collection of legendary absurdist comic strips about life in 1970s New York City, now available in print for the first time in over thirty years. Every week, from 1978 to 1980, The Village Voice brought a new installment of..... More
Do It Yourself or: My Neighbor is an Idiot (a cartoon saga of man's inhumanity to himself)
Perma Books, 1956. First Permabook Edition. Paperback. More
Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry Into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocrat
London: Futura Publications Ltd, 1980. Osbert Lancaster. First Futura Publications Edition. Paperback. A collections of essays by: Alan C. Ross, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, 'Strix', Christopher Sykes, John Betjeman. More
Jelly Side Down
Greenwich: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1972. Paperback. More
How Firm a Foundation
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1969. First Printing. Paperback. naive young man is hired by an eccentric family of millionaires to be a functionary in their foundation - a tax dodge; yet it is he who can save them from trouble with the Internal Revenue Service. More
