Search Results: Humor from Turtleman Used Books

Very little wear. A few tiny brown spots on the cover that might be coffee. Or not. Pages clean, bright, tight. 246 humorous anecdotes which might or might not be accountable as "senior moments".

You want the perfect ice breaker for your next public speaking gig? It might be in here, unless your focus is current events. Some of the jokes are definitely not politically correct, so save those for your republican speeches. Seems like there aren't many of these on the market, and I like to think it is because of their rarity rather than the other reason. The book shows very little wear, while the dust jacket has a few blemishes around the edges, including about three tears of a centimeter or less. As this book will ship at nearly three pounds, a small shipping surcharge has been added to the price.

Some wear, nothing terrible. Some price sticker residue on front cover. A large collection of one of my favorite one-panel comic strips. Includes a few comments by the artist. 223 pages, all clean, tight and intact. Owner's name inside front cover.

Very little wear. Pages are clean and tight, and the spine is uncreased. Stories organized alphabetically, from Skip Alexander to Fuzzy Zoeller. This is from 1993, so today's young guns are not included. Must be time for another.

Book is in very good condition, with 221 deckle-edged pages. Dust jacket is discolored with age and has a tear at each of the corners. Book club edition. To quote the front flap, "This is a funny novel about the four gravest threats we face --- cigarettes, food, TV, and love."

Dust jacket has small spots of wear at some corners and edges, the book has less. Blue fabric covered boards with black print. A collection of humorous, perhaps satiric, essays on English history, with illustrations. Pages are clean, tight and bright, with no significant yellowing inside and some brown spotting on the top edges. This is possibly a first edition, as the year is given on the title page, but nothing specific is mentioned on the copyright page regarding editions or printings.

Translated from the original Japanese. First published in Japan in 2015. A story about a special coffee shop where some people are able to travel back in time, but only until the coffee cools. Very little wear, to book or dust jacket.

No dust jacket. Volume one of a two volume anthology of Bennett Cerf's five best selling books of humor. This volume consists of the books The Life of the Party and Try and Stop Me. No date is given for this anthology, but the more recent book was copyrighted in 1956. Inscription inside front cover. Little wear, some yellowing from age. All pages clean, tight and intact. 733 deckle-edged pages.

Book and jacket show a little wear, less than one would expect for a 47 year old book. A collection of comic misspeaks from radio and television during a more innocent time. 114 pages, all clean, tight and unmarked.

Paper covered boards, worn through at three of the four corners. Additional wear at the top of the spine. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Two owner's names on the front endpaper. A quite amusing book on people in bed. Depression-era humor at its best. This is quite the rare book, one that will make you the best sleeper on the block.

First edition. Very little wear. I can't call this a "graphic novel" because it is a true story. The author tells, and illustrates, her own personal battle with cancer, with color and humor. I guess it is a "graphic autobiography", something not many of us could pull off. 212 pages, all clean, unmarked and intact.

First edition, first printing. A memoir written by two of the twelve children in the family. Illustrated. A story made famous by Hollywood with movies in 1950, starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, 2003, with Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, and 2022, with Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff (Disney+). A humorous telling of the 14-member household, the first movie held closest to the source material. No dust jacket. The cover appears to be orange textured paper with black print on the spine. There is wear at the top and bottom of the spine as well as at two corners, where the orange coating has peeled off the paper. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with the owner's bookplate on the front endpaper. A fairly rare book.

Little wear. The spine has a pair of creases, but remains square. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Observations from the consummate blockhead, Nigel Molesworth, on life in the English boarding school of the 1950s. Magnificently illustrated by the brilliantly comic artist Richard Searle.

First edition. Book shows very little wear. Dust jacket has a little flaring along the bottom edge and has a 3 cm tear up from the bottom of the spine, inexpertly repaired with a single piece of tape. The CD is still in its pouch, which has never been opened.

Looks almost like new. 137 pages of puns, with discussion. Pocket-sized book.

Stapled booklet, 64 pages. Little wear, pages quite yellowed, cover slightly discolored. A dictionary of puns. EX: "Half Wit: someone who spends half his time being funny." Sneeze: Much achoo about nothing." "Crabapple: A grouchy fruit." With pictures.

Very little wear, almost like new. A large book that covers 17 years of the Daily Show, straight from the mouths of the principals involved. Complete with two sections of color photographs of all sorts of people you may never have heard of. 459 pages. Offered at a bargain price of less than two cents per page.

Virtually no wear, looks almost new. A substantial collection of true tales and urban legends about people who take themselves out of the gene pool prior to passing those gene to the next generation. The more bizarre, the better. 327 pages, including index.

Very little wear. 88 pages of Dave Barry's best advice. No, really, this is the stuff to base your love life on. I mean it, really!

Very little wear, almost like new, which is quite the thing to say about a book over 40 years old. Memoirs in the form of a series of humorous letters to Elmer, whomever that might be. Author is best known for his "Trolls of Norway" stories.