Search Results: Fiction - Humor from Riverwood's Books

Montreal: Eden Press. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 0920792332. . Light edge & corner wear, couple small corner creases, light soiling to cover. Interior clean & unmarked. Age tanning to page edges. B/w illus. 147 pages. After the Parti Quebecois came to power, the world discovered the plight of a previously unknown minority - English speaking Quebecers, better known as Anglophones. At first, very little was known abou Anglos except that: - they like to move in a westerly direction- they have no inspired culinary dish- they know how to hail a taxi in French- they haven't laughed since 1976 - until now. At last, the incredible story of their suvival can be told: - Read 'Bringing up Bebe' and find out why your child sounds like a French garage mechanic. - Learn how to curse in Quebecois in Prayer or Profanity (Tabernak! ) - and so on.....(*Shipping will be reduced to all locations); 8vo .

London: Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce hardcover edition. By the author of Morning's at Seven. Ex-library with only partial spine sticker to jacket . A few other library markings and partially removed back pocket with some glue residue. Edgewear very light - jacket clean, tiny peeled area on spine, light soiling outer edge of pages, not price clipped. Pages all intact and clean other than the library stamps, 3 lines underlined on 2nd to last page and a little soiling on first endpage. Gaylord, that incredibly charming 7 year old, handles everyone (or so he imagines) with devilish cunning. It's only in Momma that he meets his match - and though he would be horrified by the suggestion, in his small cousin, the dreaded Emma. For, with appalling suddenness, the close-knit Pentecost household is disrupted by the arrival of three young visitors: David, an enignma; the lovely Jenny, who to Momma's alarm, "likes mature… Read More

London: Grafton Books. Good. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. 0586072233 . Grafton Books edition. Ex-library book with some internal stamps, stickers on front and reinforced spine. Some edgewear and light creasing. Pages are clean and intact other than lib markings. Read about the past lives of your favourite EastEnders. (130os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Arrow Books. Very Good. 1979. Softcover. 0099212706 . Cover has light edge and corner wear, edge rubbing, couple creases and a bit of sticker residue/peel on front. Pages all intact and clean other than bookstore stamp on endpage. "Captain Colin Huntingdon's efforts to retrieve his fortunes by drilling for off-shore oil on the Great Barrier Reef soon lead to the zaniest, maddest and most hilarious chase of all time..." [osl] ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. New. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 0575072067 . New book, no markings. Synopsis: After throwing a tin of pineapples at his boss's head, TV superchef Terry Whittaker runs away from London, failed love and a dying father, and arrives in the sleepy old city of Pancester to open his own restaurant. Pancester is slow to change and clings to its medieval traditions and seventies fashions. But now change is being forced on the city as the council wish to build a car park on the Dole Acre Donkey Sanctuary. Whittaker tries to stop the woman he loves, or rather stalks, from developing the site and finds that he has some strange allies: not least a field full of raving hippies, desperate to save England's finest magic mushroom field. With guest appearances from the Time Team gang, the renowned expert on the world's rarest snail, a sinister individual called Q, and the largest ancient priapic temple ever found, The Battle for Dole Acre is a dazzlingly… Read More

Forge Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0312867565 . Ex-library book, but still in very good condition - protective cover and usual ex-lib type of markings. . Over wear is very light. Light corner wear to jacket, light soiling outer edge of pages. Pages clean and intact, one page seen with a crease. 351 pages. ; 8vo .

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0771049226 . Advance reading copy. Light creasing/light wrinkling to back cover - slight soiling outer edge of pages - otherwise clean & unmarked. "Luke Gray is happy with the way things are. He’s finally settled into married life with pragmatic, level-headed Julia, free from his family’s absurdities and the chaos of his childhood. Even his mobile-bird factory seems less like a curse he can’t shake. But things change when Julia decides they should have a baby… and nothing happens.... (380? ) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 239 pages .

London: Minerva. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition; Third Printing. Softcover. 074939563X . Excellent condition light creasing on front, light soiling of cover. Interior unmarked. 209 pages. It is November 1991. Euro Disney is under construction, rising like a fantastic beacon out of the mud of Marne-la-Vallee. And three people are sitting in the cavernous interior of Big Thunder Mountain at the heart of the Magic Kingdom, waiting.....Sam believes himself to be on a mission to depose Mickey Mouse and restore to Disney World its 'lost' figurehead. Ilse Klein - a German canteen assistant and Raymond Black, a Northern Irish construction worker - are his hostages.... (250-osl) ; 8vo .

Corgi. Very Good+. 1975. Softcover. 0552999563 . Cover has light wear to edges and corners, slight corner curling. Pages intact and clean other than one small light edge stain affecting top edge first 3-4 pages. B/w photos and illustrations. 144 pages. Take one Peter Sellers, a round measure of Harry Secombe and a large helping of Spike Milligan and you've got a tried and true recipe for lunacy and laughter, commonly known as the Goons. Incorporating Spike Milligan's Goon Show Scripts-Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. Photos by Lord Snowdon and drawings by the Goons. 144pp, illustrated. Foreword by Ned of Wales. Introduction by Peter Eton (producer of the Goon Shows). [350-osl]; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall .

Sydney: Angus & Robertson Publishers. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B0000CJI3E . HC/DJ - good/fair. Hardcover has light edgewear, corner bumping, light soiling to outer edge of pages. Cover has a very light stain to bottom right front & back upper edge. Pages are clean except for a light watermark stain to upper edges. Pages are not wrinkled and turn freely. Tape mark on first endpage. Jacket has several small edge tears and chips and watermark stain to rear and inside spine, light soiling. The author's second collection of short stories.18 humourous stories about Australian small town life. (310) ; 8vo; 209 pages .

William Morrow. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 0060198303 . HC/DJ - excellent condition. 1st ed. , 4th printing. Clean and unmarked other than slight soiling to outer edge of pages. Jacket has small amount of edge crinkling and one tiny corner tear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages; Bernie is back! To devoted followers of genre stalwart Block's comic series starring Bernie Rhodenbarr, the dry-witted bookseller-thief, a new adventure reads like a treasured stand-up routine, with a few details altered. Sure, it's formula, but that's the fun. We know that when Bernie breaks into someone's home, he will either find a dead body or be trapped under the bed while something bad happens above him. We wait for it, like comedy fans waiting for a familiar punch line. This time Bernie's under the bed, and to make matters worse, he's spotted on a security camera outside the building, making him a suspect in a murder-robbery that… Read More

Plume Books. Very Good. 2000. First Edition. Softcover. 0452280990 . Book is actually new but it does have some shelf wear involving light edgewear & rubbing, a little creasing to bottom corner and soiling to bottom edge of pages. 170 pages. Description: Not since Jamaica Kincaid burst on the scene with her classic novel Annie John has so original and gifted an author given voice to a young girl's coming-of-age in the Caribbean. Oonya Kempadoo's Buxton Spice is a breathtaking glimpse into the inner life of Lula, who is growing up in a racially mixed family in a predominantly black village in Guyana in the 1970s.... (250osl) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .

U. K.: MacDonald Futura Publishers. Very Good. 1981. Second Printing. Paperback. 0860072789 . Macdonald Futura paperback edition 1981, ISBN: 0708819605. Cover art differs from amazon listing. Pages are clean and intact, no markings, age tanning to page edges. Cover has moderate edge and corner wear, old price sticker on front, slight creasing to spine. A book of rude memoirs from the author of The Henry Root Letters. "In thoroughly bad taste, but very funny indeed." - DailyTelegraph. (125os4-21) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 199 pages .

Tor Books. Near Fine. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0812550358 . Excellent, near new condition, clean & tight, only very light wear overall....For years Callahan's was the place where friends met to have a few drinks, tell a few jokes, and occasionally save a world. Until that unfortunate incident with the nuke a few years ago. But Jake Stonebender and his wife have opened a new Callahan's, Mary's Place, and all the regulars are there and of course the usual talking dogs, alcoholic vampires, aliens , and time travelers....5th bookin the series (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Macmillan. Very Good. 1976. First Edition. Softcover. 0770512631 . Very light edgewear, light creasing. Internal pages are tight & clean other than 3-4 pages with pencil writing. "Within the ranks of its professional writers and cartoonists, Canada has always enjoyed a splendid corps of humorists and satirists who have consistently entertained us, diverted us, and chided us" Includes humourous writings by Eric Nicol, T. C. Haliburton, Stephen Leacock , Don Harron, Robert Service, Max Ferguson, Irvin Layton, Dave Broadfoot, Ethel /wilson, Robertson Davies, Mordecai Richler and several others. (os) ; 8vo .

Macfadden Bartell. Good. 1964. First Edition. Softcover. B002MF2BY4 . Macfadden Bartell 1964 paperback. Light edge and corner wear, light creasing. Spine bottom has a small area where paper is peeled off and this is neatly taped. Interior clean except for name written inside cover. Age tanning to pages. 190 pages. Cloak and dagger satire about Stewart and Laura Long who are a typical suburban couple - except for one small detail - they are spies for Red Albania. Their madcap intrigues range from nudes in the closet to bombs in the rumpus room. (120os) ; 8vo; .

Macmillan Canada. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771590644 . Hardcover clean and unmarked. Jacket is fine, with no tears, other than a light interior stain which caused light wrinkling to two edges (quite minor) , not clipped. "In Charlie's a Broad, Charlie Farquharson, dogged Canadian farmer and man of parts, confronts the essential question (after the meaning of life) : what would you do if you won the lottery? Really, what would you do? Valeda's Christmas gift of a 'Lotto Sex-Afore-Nine' ticket made Charlie a quarter of a malted-millyunair and while Charlie planned to plough the money back into the land, Valeda felt it was time to move on to other pastures..... . Join the Farquharsons as they embark on their Grand Tour from Blarney's Stone to the Eiffel Tower to the great pyramid of Cheops -- in travels that left no cultural or gastronomic experience untried..... ". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

England: Penguin. Very Good. 1978. Softcover. 0140009353 . Paperback. Light creasing and edgewear to covers, some age tanning to cover and pages. Pages are clean and intact. "Wodehouse’s most famous creations, likeable nitwit Bertie Wooster and his effortlesly superior valet and protector Jeeves, reach a kind of apotheosis in The Code of the Woosters, in which Bertie is rescued from his bumbling escapades again and again by the ever-nonplussed gentleman’s gentleman Jeeves..." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; (*lower shipping avail to all locations, osl) .

Bantam Books. Near Fine. 1971. Softcover. B000NQ9UIO . Bantam Books 1971. ISBN: 0553058991. Excellent condition - clean, tight and unmarked. One tiny edge tear affects rear cover and last few pages. 247 pages. The world's bestselling stews uncork their wild new adventures! [140-noto]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Macmillan. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 0333059026 . HC/DJ - near fine/VG. Macmillan 1965. Very nice condition. Hardcover is clean and unmarked other than a little spotting to top edge and a small number stamp on last page. Jacket has light scuffing, age tanning, light edgewear and light soiling to rear. A satire on the theatre. In Cork Street is the bookshop run by Cosmo Hines and his once notorious wife, the poet Dorothy Merlin.....; 8vo; After a fatal visit to the theatre, accompanied by the reluctant Tom Hariot, to see the latest & least lovely in the current wave of plays, Tom's appalled reaction is to devote himself to writing a play of such unparalleled obscenity and sadism that no manager would dare or wish to present it.....The final battle between Tom & the supporters of his literary Frankenstein's monster is memorably funny...." [405-notosl] .