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The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research

By: Abrahams, Marc

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dutton: 2003

Seller ID: 2267894

ISBN: 0525947531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lightly rubbed. 2003 Hard Cover. A tribute to a range of tongue-in-cheek contributions to the scientific community honors a professor who theorized that toast always falls butter-side down, a southern Baptist church that identified the number of Alabama residents going to hell, and the Australian who successfully patented the wheel.
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Creature Comforts

By: Addams, Chas [Charles]

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1981

Seller ID: 2303593

ISBN: 0671438352

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Smudge on rear jacket panel. 1981 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. Strange animals, witches & Goblins fill these pages of this book.
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After-Dinner Freud Cards

By: Aguayo, Joseph

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Viking: 1995

Seller ID: 2297557

ISBN: 0670863254

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Near Fine

Includes box and all cards. Box corners lightly bumped. 1995 Unbound. Includes box and all cards. One hundred parlor cards with questions and answers to stimulate the mind and provoke lively conversation. Rediscover the wit and wisdom of Freud. Did Freud have an active sex life? What is the Super-Ego? What did Freud think of jokes? From the essential to the esoteric, the fundamental to the fascinating, After-Dinner Freud offers endless challenges and delights.
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English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I.

By: Ashton, John

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1888

Seller ID: 2301431

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on half-title page. 1888 Hard Cover. xvi, 454, 32 pp. Blue boards. Gilt title on spine, gilt decor on spine and on front board. With 15 illustrations by the author. This book is not intended to be a History of Napoleon the First, but simply to reproduce the bulk of the Caricatures and Satires published in England on our great enemy, with as much of history as may help to elucidate them. The majority of the caricatures are humorous; others are silly, or spiteful—as will occasionally happen nowadays; and some are too coarse for rep...
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F this Test: Even More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers

By: Benson, Richard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books: 2014

Seller ID: 2294251

ISBN: 145212776X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 2014 Trade Paperback. From the same hilarious wellspring of failure as the bestselling F in Exams and F for Effort comes this all-new collection of inventively wrong—yet totally real—test responses by students who don't know the answer, but come up with something better instead. Featuring crucial academic subjects including English (Q: Name a key theme in Madame Bovary; A: Cows), Geography (Q: Where can you find the Andes?; A: Google Earth), Science (Q: Describe the properties of a meteor; A: An animal that only eats meat) and more, F this Test rounds out the curriculu...
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Breaking Codes: Unravel 100 Cryptograms

By: Berloquin, Pierre

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sterling: 2014

Seller ID: 2284444

ISBN: 1454910658

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A few puzzles already filled in. 2014 Trade Paperback. 135 pp. For anyone interested in the science of secrecy and clandestine codes, renowned puzzle whiz Pierre Berloquin has created a collection of colorful exercises that gives amateurs an opportunity to test their deciphering skills. Berloquin formulates his clever cryptograms around the stories of 20 characters from fiction and history, including Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Hildegard of Bingen, and H. P. Lovecraft. Each short chapter features a brief historical background of the character and code, as well as five cryptograms—using...
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Old Probability: Perhaps Rain--Perhaps Not, with 250 Comic Illustrations

By: Bilings, Josh

Price: $35.00

Publisher: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers: 1879

Seller ID: 2294724

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Edges rubbed, water stain, ink name and note on second blank. 1879 Hard Cover. Truth iz sed to be stranger than fickshun__it iz to most pholks. A collection of articles and almanac information.
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Herblock Special Report

By: Block, Herbert

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Norton: 1974

Seller ID: 2281592

ISBN: 0393087085

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed, ink note on endpaper. 1974 Hard Cover. Herblock was America's greatest political cartoonist, and his work was at its pinacle during the Nixon Administration. This book contains hundreds of his funniest, most powerful cartoons alongside a concise narrative that sets them in context.
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The Essential Lenny Bruce

By: Bruce, Lenny; Cohen, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Ballantine: 1971

Seller ID: 2292445

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

7th printing. Pages toned. 1971 Mass Market Paperback. A collection of funny and insightful writings from the legendary comedian.
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When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

By: Carlin, George

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Hyperion: 2005

Seller ID: 2281315

ISBN: 140130821X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing. An exceptional copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. George Carlin's legendary irreverence and iconoclasm are on full display in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? as he vainly scours the American landscape for signs of intelligence in his third national bestseller. Ranging from his absurdist side (Message from a Cockroach; TV News: The Death of Humpty Dumpty; Tips for Serial Killers) to his unerring ear for American speech (Politician Talk; Societal Clichs; Euphemisms: 13 sections) to his unsparing views on America and its values (War, God, Stuff Like That; Zero Tolerance; Tired of the...
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The Abandoned Farmers: His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City to the Farm

By: Cobb, Irvin S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: George H. Doran Company: 1920

Seller ID: 2264225

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, ink name on front endpaper, pencil name on second blank. 1920 Hard Cover. vii, 247 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States. Cobb also wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Some of his works were adapted for silent movies. Several of his Judge Priest short stories ...
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The CollegeHumor Guide to College: Selling Kidneys for Beer Money, Sleeping with Your Professors, Majoring in Communications, and Other Really Good Ideas [College Humor]

By: Collegehumor.com

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Dutton: 2006

Seller ID: 2278262

ISBN: 0525949399

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2006 Hard Cover. An irreverent celebration of college life by two favorite columnists for CollegeHumor.com features off-kilter advice on a wide variety of topics, from drinking and dating to parents and roommates.
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Garfield on the Town

By: Davis, Jim; Music, Lorenzo

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine: 1983

Seller ID: 2297815

ISBN: 0345315421

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 1983 Small Hard Cover. When Garfield spends a night on the town, he meets the toughest, meanest gang of cats anyone's ever seen -- the Claws! And when the Claws take Garfield to the Italian restaurant where he was born, it's a journey into his past -- and into adventures he never dreamed of.
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How Proust Can Change Your Life

By: de Botton, Alain

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Vintage International: 1998

Seller ID: 2268610

ISBN: 0679779159

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Clipping taped to rear wrapper recto. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 197 pp. Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its everyday parts. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the centur...
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Rebellion and Reconciliation: Satirical Prints on the Revolution at Williamsburg

By: Dolmetsch, Joan D.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: 1976

Seller ID: 2297323

ISBN: 0879350326

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Half-inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel. Page ridges very faintly foxed. 1976 Large Hardcover. viii, 221 pp. Illustrated in this catalog are 100 political satires on the American Revolution from the Colonial Williamsburg collection. Each full-page illustration is accompanied by a brief interpretation and explanation, plus complete information on its original publication.--Jacket.
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Test Your Wits, Vol. 2

By: Doubleday, Eric

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ace Books: 1971

Seller ID: 2294846

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Light stain along bottom edge of wrappers, top corner of front wrapper missing. 1971 Mass Market Paperback. 192 pp. Illustrated with ingenious visual aids, Vol. II plays fair and square--all clues are spelled out or illustrated, and there are no hidden traps. You'll find: numbers games, problems in logic, matchstick games, pencil pushers, and for the armchair detectives, a collection of MiniMysteries, bringing you again Insp. Carter, that debonair Scotland Yard stalwart and his intrepid assistant, Sgt. Graham. Together the three of you will face--and solve--some of the most baffling crime-puzz...
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Shut Up and Eat Your Snowshoes!

By: Douglas, Jack

Price: $50.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons: 1970

Seller ID: 2303255

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Minor chip along bottom edge of rear jacket panel, jacket rear taped along top and bottom edges, front jacket flap price-clipped. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1970 Hard Cover. 251 pp. Douglas wrote comedy for Red Skelton and Bob Hope. The story of Jack Douglas, his wife Reiko, his son Bobby, a Malemute, Pomeranian, cougar and five wolves moving from New York City to Lost Lake Canada and life in the wilds.
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You're Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children

By: Dr. Seuss

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 1986

Seller ID: 2265297

ISBN: 0394551907

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket very faintly toned. Boards very faintly toned, small stain on front endpaper. 1986 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. You're Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children is a 1986 picture book for growing-up people by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). Released on Geisel's eighty-second birthday,[1] the book follows an elderly man on a visit to the Golden Years Clinic, where he endures long waits and bizarre medical tests. You're Only Old Once! was written shortly after Geisel had suffered through a series of illnesses, during which ...
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The Slice: Information with an Attitude! (As Featured in Willamette Week)

By: Dunn, Katherine

Price: $35.00

Publisher: WW Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2281683

ISBN: 0962451304

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 1990 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 118 pp. Real life questions--low life answers. Haunted by trivial puzzles? Sleepless over life's great mysteries? If The Slicer can't find the answer, she'll invent a theory. Why do men have nipples? How do they type the little m's on each M&M? How does the space shuttle toilet really work? How do you rope a housefly? When do you applaud at the ballet? What shape is an opossum's penis? and why? What buck stops here? Does saltpeter reduce t...
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Feiffer's Album

By: Feiffer, Jules

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Random House: 1963

Seller ID: 2297081

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Edges lightly rubbed. 1963 Large Hardcover. 132 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Excalibur and Rose; Harold Swerg; Superman; The Lonely Machine; Crawling Arnold; The Relationship. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929)[1][2] is an American cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country.[3] He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as America's leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short ...
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Sizing Up Uncle Sam: Vestpocket Essays (Not Especially Serious) on the United States

By: Fitch, George

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1914

Seller ID: 2303169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1914 Hard Cover. x, 238 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, color picture plate on front board, gilt titles. Map of the United States 'surveyed by George Fitch' on endpapers (he has labeled it humorously). A light-hearted look at the United States, written when it only included forty-eight states. Also includes sections on notable cities, natural wonders, prominent citizens, politics, domestic products, sports, the Panama Canal, Wall Street, railway stations, etc., etc.
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Clowning Through Life

By: Foy, Eddie; Harlow, Alvin F.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company: 1928

Seller ID: 2299587

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Spine lightly toned, minor loss to spine head and spine base. 1928 Hard Cover. 331 pp. Autobiography of the vaudevillian and star of numerous musical comedies.
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The Truth (with Jokes)

By: Franken, Al

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dutton: 2005

Seller ID: 2288337

ISBN: 0525949062

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author with inscription, Rob, Happy 30th! Minor sticker adhesive on jacket spine. 2005 Hard Cover. x, 336 pp. Al Franken's landmark bestseller, Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was praised as a 'bitterly funny assault' (The New York Times) that rang 'with the moral clarity of an angel's trumpet' (The Associated Press). Now, this master of political humor strikes again with a powerful and provocative message for all of us. In these pages, Al reveals the alarming story of how: Bush (barely) beat Kerry with his campaign of ...
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On the Choice of a Mistress and Other Satires and Hoaxes

By: Franklin, Benjamin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Peter Pauper Press: 1976

Seller ID: 2297515

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. No publisher date (circa 1976). Boards of slipcase and spine very lightly toned, pencil marks on slipcase. A very good copy in a very good slipcase. We have more books available by this author!. 93 pp. Illustrated by Herb Roth. CONTENTS: A Witch Trial at Mount Holly; The Speech of Miss Polly Baker; Letter from Alice Addertongue; Mrs. Silence Dogood on Funeral Elegies; Silence Dogood on the Relief of Virgins; Advice on the Choice of a Mistress; The Repeal of the Stamp Act; An Edict by the King of Prussia; Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One; Exporting of Felon...
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The Lonely Guy's Book of Life

By: Friedman, Bruce Jay

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1978

Seller ID: 2304414

ISBN: 0070224323

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front board slightly bowed. 1978 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 206 pp. In the tradition of Woody Allen's Without Feathers, Friedman comically depicts the mild and slightly balding contemporary urban Lonely Guy and tracks his footsteps from the gym to the boudoir to the therapy group.
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Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

By: Garner, James Finn

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Macmillan: 1995

Seller ID: 2208062

ISBN: 0028604199

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1995 Hard Cover. xi, 84 pp. Offers humorous revisions of supposedly outmoded fairytales, such as The Duckling That Was Judged on Its Personal Merit and Not on Its Physical Appearance.
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Simpsons Comics Strike Back

By: Groening, Matt

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper: 1996

Seller ID: 2283141

ISBN: 0060952121

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 1996 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. In Simpsons Comics Strike Back, Groening fans are treated to another laugh-fest as they catch up on the latest antics of this irrepressibly irreverent family. First, it's a yuck-filled yarn of yore when Grampa Simpson reminisces about the good old days of the Depression. Then Patty and Selma take to the air as flight attendants, and the friendly skies will never be the same. Next, the network wars have come to town, and the big boys are running scared from the BBC -- the Bart Broadcasting Channel. Then last, but ce...
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Big Bad Book of Bart Simpson

By: Groening, Matt

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper: 2003

Seller ID: 2283144

ISBN: 0060555904

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear. 2003 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Following the great success of Big Book of Bart Simpson, join Bart in this second installation of the Bart Comic Compilations as he defies authority, ducks school and, as Bartman, fights crime. From the Wild West to the sewers of Springfield, Bart Simpson will lead you on a merry chase in pursuit of hilarity. As for the rest of the kids in Springfield: Lisa Simpson shows off her investigative skills, Milhouse takes on the school bullies, and Ralph Wiggum gives you a day in his cock–eyed life.
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Big Beefy Book of Bart Simpson

By: Groening, Matt

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper: 2005

Seller ID: 2283146

ISBN: 0060748192

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 2005 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Bart Simpson is back with a brand–new collection of comics and stories loaded with headless dolls, evil aliens, impatient apes, crossing guards, chocolate laxatives, dreadlocks, loincloths, merit badges, computer viruses, juice boxes, bubble gum, greedy gold diggers, school pictures, parking tickets, time machines, Squishees gone bad, obsessive sailors, SWAT teams, and one big ugly fish.
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Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Spine-Tingling Spooktacular

By: Groening, Matt

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper: 2001

Seller ID: 2283159

ISBN: 0060937149

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lightly rubbed. 2001 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Crazed Christmas trees, tattooed circus freaks, school dances, flying monkeys, intergalactic rebellion, teenage acne, giant cockroaches, and vegetarian chili – from the morbid to the mundane, the cryptkeeper of comedy tells tales of heart–pounding hilarity guaranteed to leave you in stitches.
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