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The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research

By: Abrahams, Marc

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, 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. 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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A Bag of Noodles

By: Armbruster, Wally

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Missouri, Concordia Publishing House: 1973

Seller ID: 2308554

ISBN: 0570031583

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Faint stain along bottom edge of front wrapper. 1973 Stapled Binding. 48 pp. A collection of doodles and thoughts.
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English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I.

By: Ashton, John

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, 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 spitefulas will occasionally happen nowadays; and some are too coarse for reprod...
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The Magic Moving Picture Book

By: Bliss, Sands & Co.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Dover: 1975

Seller ID: 2307549

ISBN: 0486232247

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Acetate card included in sleeve. Light water damage to first page. 1975 Stapled Binding. 29 pp. Ruled acetate screen. Push acetate up and down very slowly to create motion and many other startling illusions. Volcanoes erupt, houses go up in flames, a steamboat plows through the water, and 15 other illusions come to life when you use the specially ruled acetate screen provided in an inside pocket.
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Herblock Special Report

By: Block, Herbert

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, 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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Stamp Help Out! and Other Short Stories

By: Bruce, Lenny

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, [Self-Published]: 1962

Seller ID: 2307517

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, second state, with overstruck obscenities. Whited out price on front corner, small sticker ghost inside rear wrapper. 1962 Soft Cover. The first book by the irreverent comedian whose off-color brand of humor led to criminal charges of obscenity. In anticipation of the resulting trial, Bruce asked Lawrence Ferlinghetti (who had taken most of the first print run to sell at City Lights) to destroy the remaining copies of the first run, and for the second printing overstruck the curse words with x's so it could not be used as evidence against him. Illustrated with black-and-white ph...
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When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

By: Carlin, George

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, 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: New York, 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 wer...
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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: New York, 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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Gotta Have 'Em: Portraits of Women

By: Crumb, R. [Robert Dennis]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Greybull Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2307445

ISBN: 0967236681

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First trade edition (following the limited edition of 100 copies), one of 5000 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase. Slipcase still partially in plastic wrap. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. [224] pp. 'He's been called a genius and a world-class malcontent.' R. Crumb, the visionary founder of the underground comics movement and unwilling hipster to multiple generations, celebrated for his viciously funny take on modern America, is also lauded as a draughtsman on par with Breughel. For the first time ever, his drawings of women are collected in one brilliantly of...
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R. Crumb Sketchbook Volume 10: June 1975 - Feb. 1977

By: Crumb, R. [Robert Dennis]

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Seattle, Fantagraphics Books: 2005

Seller ID: 2307447

ISBN: 1560976330

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. 2005 Large Softcover. We have more books available by this author!. [160 pp.] R. Crumb is undoubtedly the foremost cartoonist of the latter 20th Century, and his sketchbooks - in which he has written and drawn continually from the early 1960s to present - might rank as his finest achievement. Fantagraphics is proud to present these sketchbooks, in facsimile form, as a comprehensive series of volumes that will eventually run well over 4,000 pages. Volume 10, covering mid-1975 through early 1977, is the latest, and it represents one of the more inquisitive and soul-searching peri...
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The R. Crumb Handbook

By: Crumb, R. [Robert Dennis]; Poplaski, Peter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, MQ Publications, Ltd.: 2005

Seller ID: 2307444

ISBN: 1840727160

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Includes CD in sealed sleeve. Minimal wear to corners. 2005 Hard Cover. 437 pp. This collection of original cartoons and never-before-published work takes readers on a unique journey through the life and times of one of the 20th century's most notorious and influential counter-culture artists.
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The Complete Crumb Volume 11: Mr. Natural Committed to a Mental Institution!

By: Crumb, R. [Robert Dennis]; Thompson, Mark; Groth, Gary

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Seattle, Fantagraphics Books: 1995

Seller ID: 2307446

ISBN: 1560971738

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1995 Large Hardcover. vii, 126 pp. A collection of R. Crumb's work including Mr. Natural strips from 1976 and selections from numerous other publications. With this volume, Fantagraphics reaches the midpoint in its project to reprint the entire body of work by R. (for Robert) Crumb, by far the most important and prolific of 1960s underground comics artists. The book collects strips from 1976-77, when Crumb's bitterness and misogyny were no longer offset by the hippie ethos. This is not Crumb's most engaging work--that is found in earlier series installments--but it does indicate...
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Garfield on the Town

By: Davis, Jim; Music, Lorenzo

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, 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: New York, Vintage International: 1998

Seller ID: 2268610

ISBN: 0679779159

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Clipping taped to rear wrapper recto. 1998 Trade Paperback. 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 century, Proust's life and work are transformed here...
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Rebellion and Reconciliation: Satirical Prints on the Revolution at Williamsburg

By: Dolmetsch, Joan D.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Williamsburg, Virginia, 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: New York, 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: New York, G. P. Putnams 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: New York, 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: Portland, Oregon, 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: New York, 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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Bossypants (World Book Night U.S., 2013)

By: Fey, Tina

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books: 2012

Seller ID: 2206249

ISBN: 0316056871

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor general wear to wrappers. 2012 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 275 pp. Reading Group Guide follows text. Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; fr...
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Sizing Up Uncle Sam: Vestpocket Essays (Not Especially Serious) on the United States

By: Fitch, George

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, 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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Love is a Happy Cat

By: Fox, Dr. Michael W.; Gans, Harry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Newmarket Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2204116

ISBN: 0937858161

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket lightly toned, rear jacket flap creased. 1982 Hard Cover. 111 pp. By America's popular vet/ psychologist, these 90 cartoons and sayings are a tribute to the cat, and inform on proper cat care and behavior, as well as their loving ways. A favorite of all people who love cats, the sayings present a definition of love from a cat's point of view, such as Love is a fish tank to contemplate, or Love is sitting on top of your book while you're reading.
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Clowning Through Life

By: Foy, Eddie; Harlow, Alvin F.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, 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: New York, 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 'f...
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On the Choice of a Mistress and Other Satires and Hoaxes

By: Franklin, Benjamin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mount Vernon, New York, 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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Big Bad Book of Bart Simpson

By: Groening, Matt

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, 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 cockeyed life.
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