Search Results: Humor from About Books

New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2019. SIGNED by the AUTHOR [scarce thus] directly on the title page (her signature and "10-8-19" only, NOT personalized to anyone). Fine condition in a bright and shiny Fine dust jacket. NO chips, tears or creases. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2019. First printing with "First Edition" so stated, and complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Ages 8-12. Bound in the original light green boards, stamped in bright metallic pink on the spine. From the publisher: "Middle school meets magic in this hilarious and heartfelt novel about a girl whose life flips when she wishes on an enchanted candle -- perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski and Wendy Mass. Sage Sassafras's life is cursed! No, really. Since birth, Sage has been plagued by the Contrarium Curse that's set her at odds with… Read More

Schenectady, New York: United States Historical Research Service, 1992. 4" wide by 6" tall. Trade paperback. Near Very Good condition (2 chips to rear wrapper). No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. "This is one of the most laughable pieces of irony that has appeared since Swift provoked the risible muscles. We can trace many living characters in this animated performance…" -- from a review, European Magazine, January 1783. Keywords: Humor. Reprint of Sixth Edition (London, 1783). Soft Cover. Original printed blue wraps. 135pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Harper, 2009. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Craig Ferguson with a black sharpie directly on the title page. NEW and unread in a NEW dust jacket. Only a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear. NO chips, tears or fading. NOT price clipped ($25.99). Bright and shiny. Sharp corners. Square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. 2009. First printing with "First Edition" so stated and complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original red boards with a blue spine stamped in bright silver. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "In his memoir American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson, host of The Late, Late Show, traces his journey from working-class Glasgow to the comedic limelight of Hollywood and American citizenship. Moving and achingly funny, American on Purpose moves from Ferguson's early life as an alcoholic to his stint on The Drew Carey Show to his decision to become a U.S. citizen in its unique and honest look at his version of the American… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR on a "Million Dollar Night of Comedy" bookplate affixed to the front pastedown endpaper. Previous owner's name. Fine condition in a Very Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO chips or tears. Sharp corners. Pages are clean and unmarked - apparently never read. NOT a remainder. 2005. First Printing of the First Edition with complete number row (13579 10 8642) on the copyright page. Bound in the original tan boards with a red spine stamped in bright gold. Complete with dust jacket.. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xix, 359pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1988. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. Sharp corners. NO rubbing. NO fading. Fresh and crisp. 1988. First Edition. A volume from the American Series in Behavioral Science and Law. Publication number 1079. Bibliography. Author index. Subject index. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and front cover. Complete with dust jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. xxi, 202pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1962. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. NO fading. The jacket has one tiny chip and a few short closed edge tears that have been reinforced on the blank side with high quality clear tape. NOT price clipped ($3.50). Sharp corners. Square and tight. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1962. First printing with "First Edition" so stated on the copyright page.. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 186pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Hastings House, 1975. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Handsome armorial bookplate. No remainder mark. Dust Jacket is price-clipped. Illustrated. From the Dust Jacket: "Here is the first book that brings together all the witty sallies and wise counsel that made Franklin our original American humorist... Franklin had such verbal felicity in letter-writing and conversation that women highly cherished his friendship." Includes Franklin's advice on the choice of a mistress. This was in a private letter to a young man and the public of his day never saw it. It is reproduced here unabridged. Bibliography. Index. Original cream-colored cloth, lettered in maroon. Keywords: Poor Richard's Almanac, Richard Saunders . 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near VG DJ (1 tiny edge chip). 8vo. 406pp.

Pocket Books, 1969. Good condition. Moderate cover wear. A solid reading copy. 95 cents cover price. Pocket Books #77081. Bound in the original pictorial wraps.. 1st Pocket Books Edition (so stated). Mass Market Paperback. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 316 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Dust Jacket (protected by a removable Brodart sleeve) is not price clipped (4.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. No remainder marks. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. From the Dust Jacket: "This is a complete sampler of the Allen humor as it has emerged in books, magazines, radio shows, TV programs, letters and speeches… His verbal precosity is astonishing: some of his word-plays are worthy of James Joyce." Bound in the original gray cloth, lettered in gold on the spine. . First Edition (so stated). Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket.. Illus. by Wilson, Roland B. (cartoons) / Lawrence Ratzkin jacket design. 8vo. 261pp..

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987. Oblong. 10" wide by 9" tall. No record. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. Not price clipped (7.95). No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. A book of cartoons, with some pages illustrated in full-color. First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. Very Good+ condition. 121pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Garden City, New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1932. NOT a library discard. HARDCOVER. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (only lightly soiled). NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Protected by a removable Demco clear-plastic sleeve. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO foxing. By the author of TOPPER TAKES A TRIP. Bound in the original gray pictorial cloth, stamped in black. From the dust jacket: "A wickedly gay and irrepressible book about a bishop, young love and a nudist colony... Here is Thorne Smith at his best, in a madly hilarious tale, at once mad, tender, and gleeful, that is a cockeyed, ribald, joyous picture of our times and of all of us. P.S. Jo got her man.". Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Roese (line drawings by). 8vo. (viii), 311pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Calgary, Alberta: Wordstorm Productions, Inc., 1995. Appears unread. Near Fine condition (covers are only very lightly rubbed). Bright, clean, tight copy. The spine is square and flat. NO creases. Trade Paperback. 6" wide by 9" tall. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. "First Printing October 1995" is so stated on the copyright page with NO indication of any other printing. Illustrated with drawings/cartoons. From the rear cover: "Welcome to the sometimes wacky world of police work. Yes, these are the alleged true stories guaranteed to keep you in stitches! Listen in on hilarious calls received by dispatchers; ride with car crews as they reduce themselves from men and women of steel to gut-laughing fools; sit in on management discussions and discover how policy is made...or not.". First Edition (so stated). Trade Paperback. Near Fine condition. 294pp.

Privately Published, 2013. INSCRIBED / SIGNED TWICE by the AUTHOR with a black sharpie on both the front and rear inside covers. Very Good condition. Flat, uncreased spine. Bright and shiny. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with photos of the author with celebrities including Kevin Nealon, Dolly Parton, Mike Tyson, Garry Shandling, David Arquette, Lou Ferigno, Kenny G., Cher, Julio Iglesias, Paul Reisner, Darrell Hammond, Joe Montana, Ted Danson, etc. Cover praise from Chris Rock and Rosie O'Donnell. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 170pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2004. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat spine. No creases. Fresh and crisp. Cartoon strip illustrations throughout, many in full-color. First printing with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the publisher: "BUCKY KATT'S BIG BOOK OF FUN, the second full-color treasury of the outrageous antics featuring Bucky, Satchel, and Rob, is sure to attract more readers of the strip voted Best Comic Strip of 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society. Behold the world of Get Fuzzy. Meet Bucky Katt, the Siamese smart-ass who coexists under protest with Satchel Pooch, the sweet-tempered shar-pei/Lab mix, and Rob Wilco, the human who keeps the refrigerator stocked. Each day in 400 newspapers around the world readers visit the place where cats, dogs, and… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2006. Still sealed in the publisher's clear-plastic shrinkwrap. PERFECT CONDITION. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. NO chips, tears, creases, rubbing or fading. Bright and shiny. NOT price clipped ($50.00). Sharp corners. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Oversize Hardcover. 10.75" wide by 10.75" tall. This large, very heavy book will require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for International shipments, but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. From the publisher: "Like jazz and baseball, cartoons are an indelible, indigenous part of American culture. Cartoon America celebrates 250 years of American cartooning with an unprecedented selection of original art by the best, most accomplished creators in the history of comics illustration, including Thomas Nast, Charles Schulz, Winsor McCay, Jules Feiffer, and many, many others. With accompanying essays written exclusively for this volume by such luminaries as John Updike,… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Heavy erasure (of owner's name?) on endpaper. No bookplate. Price clipped. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No year of publication indicated (but 1975; See McIlvaine A97b). Published 1974 in the UK as: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. Front panel of Dust Jacket features Norman Green's lovely full-color painting of Eggesford Court, a brown horse, Dahlia Travers, Jeeves holding a martini, Bernie Wooster in glasses and smoking a pipe, and a yellow-eyed black and white cat. Rear panel of Dust Jacket has black & white photo by Jill Krementz of The Incomparable Sir Plum with a dachshund. On rear flap is a 3-line notice of Wodehouse's death [at age 93]. From the Dust Jacket: "This one is about a cat that is kidnapped because he is the cherished stablemate of a Thoroughbred racehorse who performs well only when the cat is around." McIlvaine A97b . First Printing of the… Read More

San Francisco: John Borden and Albert Sperisen, 1979. Near Fine condition. 1979. First Edition. A keepsake printed by Sherwood Grover for John Borden and Albert Sperisen. Foreword by Bob Magee. Excerpt from Magee's second autobiography, THE MUSIC IN MY HEART, which was left unfinished due his death in July 1977. "Sufficient copies have been printed for the Roxburghe Club and for the friends of David Magee." Contains droll recollections, including one of a lady, Mollie Panter-Downs, who Magee always thought of, rather irreverently, as Mollie Downer-Pants. Near Fine condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1979. First Edition. Printed by Sherwood Grover, April 1979. Bound in the original wraps, printed in red and black.. First Edition. Softcover (cord tied). Near Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. (vi), 7pp.. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Boston and Toronto:: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. A clean, tight copy. Attractive Dust Jacket painting by Don Freeman wraps-around to include the spine. Pages are fresh and unmarked. SIGNED/ INSCRIBED by Anderson to author and playwright Isabel Leighton [THE ASPIRIN AGE 1919-1941; MY BOY FRANKLIN; SPRING AGAIN; WHERE AWAY, A MODERN ODYSSEY; WHITEMAN'S BURDEN; FAT GIRL; etc]. Laid-in is the mailing label to Leighton's Park Avenue address in New York. This book is the follow-up to Anderson's Texas classic: I AND CLAUDIE (one of A.C. Greene's FIFTY BEST BOOKS ON TEXAS). It reprises Clint Hightower and his sidekick Claudie, a pair of Gentle Grafters who, according to Greene, roam Texas "outsmarting bankers and oilmen, but often falling victim to their own softheartedness or their own cleverness." From the Dust Jacket: "From time to time, Claudie Hughes had talked a lot about his well-heeled kinfolk in Texas -- they were, as Clint Hightower put it, 'like a jack… Read More

Philippines: Vera-Reyes, 1979. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Fresh and crisp. 1979. First Edition (No additional printings listed). 7" wide by 10.25" tall. Bound in the original brown cloth. Complete with dust jacket.. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 271pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Peter Lang, 1993. Very Good condition. A bright, clean, tight copy. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Softcover. 6" wide by 9" tall. Illustrated with photographs. Bound in the original pictorial wrappers. From the rear cover: "In this broad-ranging exploration of the nature of comedy Professor Charney considers its popular roots as well as the major issues in comic theory. COMEDY HIGH AND LOW seeks to bridge the gap between comic literature, especially stage comedy, and the popular comedy of jokes, graffiti, and comic happenings of everyday life. With examples taken mainly from major figures of stage comedy from Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Jonson, the Restoration dramatists, and Molière to Beckett, Pinter, Dürrenmatt, Stoppard, and Orton, it brings a historical perspective to the subject, and also… Read More