Search Results: Literature: Humor from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y., Simon & Schuster [1961]. Hard Cover. 472 pages. Set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small Mediterranean island off Italy-- a world absurd and horrifying.x Good +, blue boards, top of spine worn/ no dj; book club. Stock#100882.

N.Y., Farrar, Straus, 1964.. Hard Cover. 212 pages, 21 cm. Book Club edition. In this novel in the popular series, Don Camillo, the parish priest of a small Italian town has another round with Peppone the Communist mayor. Stock# 32,736x. Vg/ dj vg. italian literature

N.Y., Pocket Books, [1965]. Soft Cover. 167 pages, illustrated by the author. The Italian village priest Don Camillo travels to Moscow disguised as a Communist. Stock# 32,737. Vg/ paper. Italian literature

Soft Cover. 244 pages, 19.5 cm. "The same expansiveness, humor, and contagious zest for life that sparked [On the Road] sparks this one but through a more cohesive story." Cover design by Richard Powers; front corner bumped, else good+. Stock# 101162.

London, Dent/ New York, Dutton. [ 1936 c. 1920]. Hard Cover. xix, 423p., 17.5 cm. Series: Everyman's library, 610. Includes Charity and humour (pp. [265]-286). Stock# 40,105. Vg/ no dj.

Porto, Viuva[Joanna de Sousa] Bandeira, 1874.. Hard Cover. Signed. [4], 83, 288, [1] p., portrait front.; 19.5 cm. Stock #29,206. Vg, red boards, corners bumped, Biographia is signed Custodio José Vieira. Portugal biography humor poetry literature.

N.Y., Harper & Brothers, 1937. Hard Cover. x, 245 p., illus.; 21 cm. Sixth edition. Twenty-eight short humorous pieces with drawings by the author. Twenty-six first appeared in The New Yorker. Good+, illustrated boards/no dj. 101931.

Pleasantville, N.Y., Reader's Digest [1987].. Hard Cover. 382 p., illus.; 23.5 cm.Illustrations from the 1883, first edition. A well-produced, handsome book, not the reduced-sized weak-bound versions Readers' Digest requires of other publishers. Prospectus. Stock #29,572. VG/ no dj. American literature, satire, humor, adventure.

Short sketches-- "All the pieces in this book originally appeared in The New Yorker." This is also, if not the first, an early collaboration with Al Hirschfeld. Hardcover; 153 pages, illustrations throughout; Very Good in torn, wrinkled dust jacket. Stock#26355/h

New Orleans, Tulane UP, 1956. Soft Cover. pp. 15-29, 23 cm. Offprint from Tulane Studies in English, Volume VI. Proposes that in his humor Marlowe presents unorthodox views. Stock# 40,495. Vg/ offprint.

Atheneum, NY, 1970.. Hard Cover. 'First Edition.' 97 p., illus.; 23.5 x 23.5 cm. 'My Prez/ of whom/ else can I say/ that/ when he does/ something good/ there is/ a bad reason for it.' Stock #29,431. Vg/ dj clipped, scuffed. American history, literature, poetry, satire, humor.

"...the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Jeeves and his hapless charge Bertie Wooster... his ex-fiancée Pauline Stoker, her formidable father and the eminent loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop... Chuffy falls in love with Pauline and Bertie seems to be caught in flagrante... only Jeeves (whether employed or not) can simmer [the situation] down. 263 pages; nice quality paperback. Stock##ofc0030.