Search Results: Humor from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. G.B. Trudeau (Author-Illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW Copy. Illustrated soft cover/NF, showing faint discoloration. Political and social commentaries of Garretson Beekman Trudeau (1948 -), 1975 receipient of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. In this volume Uncle Duke is appointed America's envoy to Chairman Mao's China at a time when Cuban troops parade the Russian frontier.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952. First Edition, 5th Printing of 1963 . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Archival Photos & Illustrations. Text/NEW & Bright. 1952 Edition, 5th Printing of 1963. Gilt embossed, faux-leather boards/Fine. DJ/VG; Sound w/strike-out to upper corner of front inner-flap & cut to lower corner; rubs to leading edges & small coffee (?) spot to front. A humorous, witty survey of the wolf (wulf, woolf) from beginnings, through the Muddle Ages, to Oxford Wilde's Picture of Duncan Gray and the great literary giant woolf, Virginia (1882 - 1941). 78 pgs, 10 chapters.

New York, NY: Bantam, 1973. First Edition, 6th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Vintage Bantam Extra TZ8300.1973 First Edition, 6th Printing. Illustrated (photo of Nixon & Agnew w/Tricia in the background) soft cover/NF w/trace edge rubs. 5 men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic Nat'l Committee Headquarters in the Watergate complex in 1972. Tape recordings implicated 37th President Richard Nixon's (1913 - 1994), who resigned August, 1974 faced w/certitude of impeachment. This political satire was first published July, 1973 when the dye of this far reaching political scandal had been cast, and 3 months before Vice President Spiro Agnew (1918 - 1996) resigned. Volume, composed of photos w/comic strip style conversation balloons, carries a faux-Henry Kissinger introduction. A spoof & parody ridiculing political-double-talk in a moment of great national tragedy & dishonor.

New York, NY: Warner Books/Bernard Geis Associates, 1985. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Jackie Geyer (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1985 First Edition, 4th Printing. Softcover/NF w/a nip to lower front corner. Modern life takes its toll on felines, as Baker and Geyer aptly demonstrate in this comic guide to help cat owners identify--and survive--their pets' eccentricities. Front endpapers w/humorous paw-prints illustrated by BORRIS. Humor and wit, illustrated throughout by Jackie Geyer. If your cat climbs curtains, fights w/houseplants, paws goldfish, lies on the open book you're trying to read, read on! Book written for all of us who can neither live with, nor without, our beloved but puzzling pet housemates.

Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1978. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Walter Lorraine (Illustrator). EX-LIB. Stated First Edition. Text/Near New. Illustrated boards/NF. DJ/VG; under library mylar, showing trace discoloration to upper front & rubs to back cover surface. Ingenious tall tale ... how important is truth when there's a county fair World Champion Liar's Contest, a beanstalk planted to lure the giant down, and a huge, flat footprint just outside the McBroom kitchen window?!

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1986. 1st Paperback Edition, 1st Printing . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Lorinda Bryan Cauley (Illustrator). Stated First Impression. Text/As Near. Illustrated soft cover/NF. Tale of the enchanting courtship of the Owl and the Pussycat, their marriage, and their nuptial dance by the sea under the light of the moon. A great favorite by by English humorist and illustrator Edward Lear (1812 - 88) who is also a noted bird artist in zoological draughtsmanship. This issue is illustrated by Lorinda Bryan Cauley.

New York, NY: Signet/New American Library, 1980. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. , Tom Wilson (author illustrated). Text/BRAND NEW Copy. 1980, First Edition, 4th Printingl. Illustrated softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear to back cover. Created by cartoonist Thomas Albert Wilson (1931 - 2011). Drawn between 1971 thru' 1987, Wilson's Ziggy comics appeared in some 500 newspapers, calendars, and on T-shirts, buttons, glass tumblers, lunch boxes, coffee mugs --- were continued by his son, Tom Wilson Jr. after 1987. In 2002, Ziggy became the official spokes-character for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. This volume of 1980 is by Tom Wilson Sr. 60 pgs of fun with the lovable, pint-sized, bald large-nosed philosopher, Ziggy often drawn just in shirt with his lower parts never seen, who lives in a simple house w/a garden, often at his office job where his foibles reflect the absurdities we all encounter daily, with his many feathered friends, not excluding rubber ducks.

New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. First Paperback Edition, First Printing . Paperback. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Printing. Collection of tales Wall Street insiders deem worthy of perpetuation. Not all attractive; for instance, the one recounting one day's volatile activity of Sea World stocks (page 95). Good to remember the book only records "myths, legends, and outright lies", and insiders and outsiders may laugh together.

Marietta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1993. First Edition, 13th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. David Boyd (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF. Time and place for everything; favorite comedian Jeff Foxworthy dedicates this collection to his parents: "Now I understand and appreciate your wisdom and experience." ... 5th anthology that could not have been written while wet behind the ears. Wisely, another collaboration with illustrator David Boyd ... a proven success not to be tampered with. With laughter, aging can be graceful, like when you can't sit still without falling asleep?! Just in time for baby boomers. Fine copy.