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HARPOON, September 1974

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 1974

Seller ID: 011819

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

The "Balls For Women" issue. First issue of what was billed as "The New American Humor Magazine," and an attempt to cash in on the unqualified success of 'National Lampoon' (this just in: it didn't). Contributors included artists Gail Burwen, Peter Bramley, Jim Ceribello, Howard Chaykin, Cloud Studio, Tom Hachtman, Jay Lynch and Gerald Wise. The writers were Melvyn Chase, Jeffrey Coloper, Roger Director, Les Ericson, Gene Holstun, Sandy Landsman, Dennis Lennon, Chris Rush, Steve Skeates, Mary Skrenes, Joachim Themal, and John Zembetti. The cartoonists included Pat Broderick, Ju...
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A Cartoon Guide to the Battle of the Sexes

By: Anonymous (ed.)

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Avon 617:

Seller ID: 008881

a collection of cartoons from a variety of practitioners of the form, all dealing in one way or another with the on-going struggle of each sex to have its way with the other; 126 pgs. + 2 pgs. of ads for other Avon titles; bottom corner torn from pg. 37/8, diagonal crease to bottom portion of back cover, slant, some edgewear; like so many of these old Avons, this one probably wouldn't endure any but the most careful of readings;
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Get Me Cracked

By: Anonymous (editors of Cracked)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Dell 3033: 1973

Seller ID: 011672

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good to Fine

reoffers stories and art which first appeared in Cracked Magazine from 1969 to 1973, featuring such artists as John Severin and Rodrigues; a competitor/clone of Mad Magazine, but as they say on the cover, "We're number two because we don't try as hard."; rubbing, impressions, moderate general wear; internally tight and clean; uncommon in this condition;
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The Castles in Spain (signed)

By: Ault, Orvill E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hicksville, Exposition Press: 1976

Seller ID: 016240

ISBN: 0-682-48496-2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ault's second novel, being "The hilarious adventues of a million-dollar lottery winner and the girls who help him spend it." Signed by Ault on front end paper. Maroon leatherette w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 204 pages. Glue stains to pastedown edges at spine, light general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions/scratches, mild chipping to spine ends/corners, diagonal 1" tear to top right corner of rear panel.
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The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

By: Baker, Tom

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1999

Seller ID: 008733

ISBN: 0 571 19771 X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: About Very Good

Baker is best known as television's Doctor Who. Here he gives us the grotesque and horrific story of an evil thirteen-year-old who despises the human race and enjoys kicking pigs. A grisly little tale with a ratty ending not for the faint-of-heart. Illustrated boards, 126 pages. Scuffed boards, impressions to covers, tanned edges, moderate general wear.
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Clementine and Her Men

By: Bellus, Jean, Douglas McKee and William H. Cole

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker: 1958

Seller ID: 013229

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of 108 cartoons featuring an occasionally nude, usually naive young woman who was known as "The Rage of Paris." Captions by Douglas McKee and William H. Cole. Grey cloth w/maroon spine lettering, 112 pages. Price-clipped dust jacket w/small triangular piece from bottom edge of rear panel.
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Cobb's Bill of Fare

By: Cobb, Irvin S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1913

Seller ID: hu.00009

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The renowned American humourist offers four essays, titled "Vittles," "Music," "Art," and "Sport." Dedicated "To R. H. Davis (Not Richard Harding -- The Other One)." "Sport is largely a point of view. A skinny youth who flits forth from a gymnasium attired in the scenario of a union suit, with a design of a winged Welsh rarebit on his chest, and runs many miles at top speed through the crowded marts of trade, is highly spoken of and has medals hung on him. If he flits forth from a hospital somewhat similarly attired, and does the same thing, the ca...
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Washing the Hands

By: Dehan, Aiken A.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart:

Seller ID: 008250

an amusing look at a certain bodily function and the social euphemisms/strictures surrounding it; "We all find it highly necessary, several times a day, to wash our hands. Why in the name of common sense and honesty should we think it necessary to refer to this simple natural act as 'seeing a man about a dog,' 'watering the stock,' 'sharpening the skates,' or as the French so subtly put it, 'changer le poisson d'eau.'?"; illustrated orange cloth, 37 pgs., illustrated; gentle crinkle to top right corner of front free end paper; lightly edgeworn dj w/mild chipping to corners/spine ends, ...
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The Obstinate Captain Samson

By: Douglas, Gavin

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons/Putnam: 1937

Seller ID: 013566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

From the front flap: "It all starts quite innocently with a cargo of wheat which the truculent captain is loading in the port of Savonia, but before the end has been reached the British flag has been insulted, the British Navy called out to rescue the Empire, the dictator of Savonia has been kidnapped, a torrid Spanish dancer has become involved, questions have been asked in the House of Commons and the choleric, colorful, obstinate Captain Samson has become the unwilling, protesting hero of the British public, and is forced to permit himself to be publicly kissed on both cheeks, while he ...
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STILL WARTHOGS RUN DEEP and other free range nonsense (signed)

By: Drew, Simon

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club: 1988

Seller ID: 016401

ISBN: 1-85149-087-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A delightful collection of general goofiness. Or, as the publisher would have it, "A series of poems, drawings and puns...that combine a sense of the ridiculous with a definite seriousness regarding our respect, or lack of it, for the countryside." There are a few first editions kicking around, but they're not signed. There are a few signed copies kicking around, but they're not first editions. This is both. Illustrated boards, 48 pages.
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Why Me? (Luann #2)

By: Evans, Greg

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Berkley Pacer 08879: 1986

Seller ID: 014715

ISBN: 0 425 08879 0

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

From the front cover: "The second totally hysterical collection of America's hottest new comic strip." And in 1986, I'm sure that it was. 122 pages. A hint of general wear. A nice copy, internally tight and clean.
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THE TRIALS OF BROTHER BELL, Two novels: 1.) Repentance Vale, and 2.) The Struggle Outside (signed)

By: Fraser, Raymond

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Roslin, Lion's Head Press/LHP: 2010

Seller ID: 017185

ISBN: 098651831X

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: As New

"Two satiric novels by the 2009 winner of the Lieutenant-Governor's Award." 272 pages, cover painting (Dulle Griet, 1562) by Peter Brueghel. An unread copy.
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NON STOP REVIEW, 21 Years of Grayson (signed)

By: Grayson, H. (pseudonym of Graham Harrison)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chichester, Barry Rose: 1994

Seller ID: 005711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"A collection of articles written by H. Grayson, humorous columnist with the 'Local Government Review' over a period of 21 years from 1971. In them Grayson turned a subversive spotlight on the more pompous elements in the central and local government establishment and on some of the bizarre decisions and utterances issuing from both during that period of unprecedented change." Illustrations by Tom Harrison, aged 11½. Dust jacket illustration by Sue Harrison. This copy inscribed and signed by the author ("For Jim & Rhoda, with all/good wishes./Graham H./alias Grayson"), and ...
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The Last Alderman

By: Grayson, H. (pseudonym of Graham Harrison)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chichester & London, Barry Rose: 1975

Seller ID: 007714

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

author's first novel; this one "brings to more permanent life some of the characters who...have entertained and delighted readers of the 'Local Government Review.'"; "Grayson's" work began appearing in the LGR in 1971, and in the words of this publisher of a volume of collected works, "turned a subversive spotlight on the more pompous elements in the central and local government establishment and on some of the bizarre decisions and utterances issuing from both."; red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 192 pgs.; a bit of slant, dusty edges, gentle corner/spine end wear; dj w...
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BEN & ME, From Temperance to Humility -- Stumbling Through Ben Franklin's Thirteen Virtues, One Unvirtuous Day at a Time (signed)

By: Gunn, Cameron

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Perigree / Penguin: 2010

Seller ID: 017755

ISBN: 0399536078

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

An admirer of Benjamin Franklin, Gunn records his "attempt to live by Franklin's thirteen virtues, a list of lofty ideals the Founding Father held dear," but which take "this ordinary man way outside his comfort zone and into a thicket of not-so-modern values." 250 pages (including notes, brief author biography). Internally tight and clean, with only light general wear.
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Back To B.C.

By: Hart, Johnny

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Gold Medal D1880: 1968

Seller ID: 009405

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Paperback. Near Fine. 1st Gold Medal ed. B.C., the Fat Broad, Wiley, Clumsy Carp, the Cute Chick, Thor and all the rest of your favourite cavemen;
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CODD'S LAST CASE (and other Misleading Cases)

By: Herbert, A.P. (Alan Patrick)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1952

Seller ID: 018434

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of satirical legal cases featuring Albert Haddock and Justice Codd. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 152 pages (including index). Light wear to corner/spine ends, small stain to top of front cover, in dust jacket w/sun-darkened spine, chipping to spine ends/corners, a couple of short (less than 1/2") tears to top edge of rear panel, a shorter tear top edge of front panel, light edgewear.
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Good 'N' Sick

By: Hirsch, Phil, and Paul Laikin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Zebra 00268:

Seller ID: 008749

A collection of humorous pieces from the writers, artists and editors of Sick Magazine, a competitor of such others of the genre as Mad and Cracked. Contributors include Allan Gascoigne, Don Orehek, Jack Sparling, Bob Heit, Joe Catalano, John Langton, Bob Powell, Vic Martin, and others. Cover illustration by Joe Simon. A bit of soil, impressions/scratches, creases to back cover, tanning. Internally tight.
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"What's the Garbage Doing on the Stove?"

By: Hoest, Bill

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Signet Q6327: 1975

Seller ID: 017038

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

First printing (w/complete number sequence) of the first collection of cartoons featuring Leroy and Loretta Lockhorn, the husband and wife team about as well-matched as gasoline and fire. 128 pages, foreword by Al Jaffee. Mild slant, some spine sunning, off-setting (tanning) to back cover, inside back cover, and last page. Internally tight.
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As I Was Going to St. Ives

By: Holloway, Liz

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Femina Books: 1969

Seller ID: 012581

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Holloway's first book, and true first edition. A distinguished sixty-five-year-old man of considerable means decides to marry one of his seven mistresses (all of whom are, at the time he makes this bonehead decision, happily co-existing under the same roof), but faces the problem of deciding which one. Blue cloth w/gilt spine lettering/decoration, 181 pages, dust jacket illustration by Leonora Box. Mild slant, gently bumped bottom spine, a hint of corner wear, in dust jacket with longish edge tears, scratches, chipping, two pieces (the first measuring approximately 1&1/2" long by 3/4" ...
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THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, or Mirth and Marvels, First, Second & Third Series (3 volumes)

By: Ingoldsby, Thomas (pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Manchester & New York, George Routledge and Sons: 1889

Seller ID: 015724

Binding: Flexible Leatherette

Condition: Reading Copies

3 volumes from the publisher's Pocket Library series. All 3 in red leatherette w/gilt trim/spine lettering, all edges gilt, 382/319/382 pages, respectively, illustrated. Reading copies only.
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KURBRUNNEN UND KURSCHATTEN, Erlebnisse in einem Badeort

By: Jaques-Buddenbohmer, Ingeborg

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Heilbronn, Eugen Salzer:

Seller ID: 008177

text in German; 80 pgs.; some slant, mild general wear;
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The Divine Ryans (variant printing)

By: Johnston, Wayne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990

Seller ID: 017820

ISBN: 0-7710-4447-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: the one with the major typographical error, the one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and the one missing an entire leaf. This is the latter, missing pages 213/4, and seems even scarcer than the variant with the error. Pink cloth w/yellow spine lettering, 233 pages, dust jacket illustration by Marion Stuck. Moderate ...
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The Divine Ryans (variant printing)

By: Johnston, Wayne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990

Seller ID: 017821

ISBN: 0-7710-4447-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: one with the major typographical error, one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and one missing an entire leaf. This is the first of those, containing the major error that was subsequently corrected.. Pink cloth w/yellow spine lettering, 233 pages, dust jacket illustration by Marion Stuck. Spotting to covers, light wea...
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The Divine Ryans (variant printing)

By: Johnston, Wayne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990

Seller ID: 017822

ISBN: 0-7710-4447-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: one with the major typographical error, one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and one missing an entire leaf. This is the first of those, containing the major error that was subsequently corrected.. Pink cloth w/yellow spine lettering, 233 pages, dust jacket illustration by Marion Stuck. A hint of wear to corners/spi...
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The Divine Ryans (variant printing)

By: Johnston, Wayne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1990

Seller ID: 017823

ISBN: 0-7710-4447-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1967, this is the story of a nine-year-old boy "with a myth-making imagination," and his eccentric family. There seem to be three versions of this title: one with the major typographical error, one correcting that error (which was caught early in the game, making the corrected version by far the most common), and one missing an entire leaf. This is the first of those, containing the major error that was subsequently corrected.. Pink cloth w/yellow spine lettering, 233 pages, dust jacket illustration by Marion Stuck. Tanned edges w/a small soil s...
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Marriage Mischief

By: Keating, Walter S. (editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Plaza Book Company: 1951

Seller ID: 005384

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

A collection of chiefly humourous writings on the institution of marriage. Represented are Oscar Wilde (undoubtedly an authority on the subject), Chaucer, Balzac, Burton, Maupassant, Mark Twain, Sterne, Stevenson, Aesop, Billings, Westermarck, Wood, Herrick, Hood, and others. 96 pages. Edgewear, upturned corners, faint soil, moderate general wear.
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Pogo For President

By: Kelly, Walt

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Crest s708: 1964

Seller ID: 015706

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

A collection of selected cartoons from 'I Go Pogo, Vol. 1'. Light edgewear, light rubbing, mild general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Half Hitch

By: Ketcham, Hank

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Gold Medal D2389: 1971

Seller ID: 010831

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

the creator of Dennis the Menace offered another character to the cartoon-reading public, a Dennis-the-Menace-with-testosterone named Half Hitch, billed as "America's saltiest, sexiest, pint-sized sailor," and a guy who spent a fair bit of his time thinking about/talking to/dating/hustling women; previous owner's name/date/code number, moderate general wear;
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Dennis the Menace

By: Ketcham, Hank

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Fawcett D1329: 1969

Seller ID: 010832

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Dennis and Ruff and Joey and Margaret and Mr. Wilson and--well, *you* know who they are; previous owner's name/date/code number at top of first end paper, light general wear;
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Hazel

By: Key, Ted

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam 1404: 1955

Seller ID: 018234

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Hazel was Ted Key's most famous character, and ran for 26 years in the Saturday Evening Post, after which it was picked up by the King Features Syndicate. Basis for the television show of the same name, which starred Shirley Booth as the bossy, usually somewhat cantankerous, maid. Unpaginated. Edgewear, handling wear, impressions, crosscrack. Still internally pretty tight.
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Hanging On

By: Koontz, Dean R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Dell 5437: 1976

Seller ID: 018202

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

Canadian printing of a title first published in hardcover in 1973 by M. Evans and Company. U.S. Army engineers dropped into Nazi-occupied France to perform a secret mission must keep a bridge open until the Allies show up, but it's a little tougher than expected, since the Luftwaffe just happens to know all about this secret mission, and keeps bombing the bridge, forcing the GIs to keep building it, forcing the Luftwaffe to keep bombing it, forcing the GIs to keep building it, forcing -- well, you get the general drift. Lunacy ensues. According to a Publishers Weekly blurb on the front cove...
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Miss Peach, Again

By: Lazarus, Mell

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap/Tempo 5435: 1972

Seller ID: 014763

ISBN: 0-448-05435-3

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Collects some of the best Miss Peach cartoons from the previous fifteen years. Introduction by Johnny Hart. Internally tight and clean.
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Momma: I'll See You In My Dreams, At Least

By: Lazarus, Mell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bantam 14788: 1981

Seller ID: 014764

ISBN: 0-553-14788-9

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good to Fine

1st printing w/complete number sequence. A collection of cartoons featuring the nosy, seldom-satisfied buttinski who is every mother. Paperback, unpaginated. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Monster Madness, No. 2 (#2)

By: Lee, Stan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Marvel: 1973

Seller ID: 009561

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good to Fine

A collection of old horror movie stills embellished with humourous captions. Cover features Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Basil Rathbone in a scene from Universal's 1939 release, "Son of Frankenstein." Horizontal crinkle (printing imperfection) to back cover;
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Monster Madness, No. 3 (#3)

By: Lee, Stan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Marvel: 1973

Seller ID: 009567

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

A collection of old horror movie stills embellished with humourous captions. Also contains movie reviews from Don McGregor and Tony Isabella, an article on "The Creature From The Black Lagoon," a look at the flesh-eating Wendigo, a Tony Isabella-written profile of horror master Robert Bloch, and other features. Cover reproduces a scene from the film, "Bride of Frankenstein."
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Hans Breitmann in Germany, Tyrol

By: Leland, Charles G.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin:

Seller ID: 013704

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No date (ca. 1895). An amusing travel story, told in fractured German-English (Germish? Engliman?), with a verse here and there to make sure that we are paying attention. Decorated brown cloth, 168 pages (some unopened). Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, moderate general wear. No previous owner's marks or notations. (C/BT)
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The Self-Starting Wheel

By: Murray, William

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Dutton: 1960

Seller ID: hu.00032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Murray's third novel. At a Long Island summer resort a self-proclaimed prophet of a new religion takes it upon himself to act as avenging angel, seeing to it that the worst of cultural and commercial frauds get their come-uppance. Murray sang professionally in Italy, and was a reporter for the Rome bureau of Time-Life International before working for the Italian film industy, eventually ending up on the editorial staff of The New Yorker. Tanned/dusty edges, light spine end/corner wear, slightly tanned spine, thin tanned strip across top edges of front and back covers. Dust jacket w/moderat...
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HOW TO BRICKLE, The New Brunswick Funny Book

By: Pickens, Stillman "Still" (pseudonym of H. A. "Hal" Fredericks)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Omega Publishing Division of Omega Management Services: 1977

Seller ID: 017937

ISBN: 0-9690732-0-8

Binding: Stapled illustrated wraps

Condition: Good

A collection of captioned photographs spoofing those who participated in the money-losing proposition that was production of entrepeneur Malcolm Bricklin's car, the Bricklin. Among those being lampooned are then-Premier Richard Hatfield, Bricklin, Lawrence Garvie, minister of economic growth, and several others. Rubbing/impressions/surface wear, previous owner's name date in ink to top of front cover, moderate general wear.
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Who's Got the Action? (also published as Four Horseplayers Are Missing)

By: Rose, Alexander

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Crest s572: 1962

Seller ID: 010375

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good to Fine

the wife of a man who likes to play the ponies a bit too much decides to become his bookie, but when her husband and his friends win big, she can't pay off; originally published in 1960, by Coward-McCann, under the title, "Four Horseplayers Are Missing," and basis for the film of the same name, which starred Dean Martin and Lana Turner, with Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau, Paul Ford, and Nita Talbot; both covers show scenes from the movie; mild spine roll, light corner wear, a hint of handling wear, light tanning; a nice copy, internally tight and clean;
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THE BORN LOSER, Hey Brutus, How Do You Want Your Goose Cooked?

By: Sansom, Art

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap/Ace/Tempo Books 07135: 1977

Seller ID: 014753

ISBN: 0-441-07135-X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A collection of comic strips featuring Brutus Thornapple, comicdom's boneheaded born loser. Unpaginated. Light general wear.
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The Circus of P.T. Bimbo

By: Schneider, Howie

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Tempo 12212 / Grosset & Dunlap / G&D: 1976

Seller ID: 017297

ISBN: 0-448-12212-x

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

The adventures of a bunch of circus misfits "under the guidance of that lovable charlatan, P.T. Bimbo and his left-hand man, Bromo." Schneider, who died in 2007, was the award-winning creator of, among others, the Eek and Meek comic strip. Unpaginated. Creases to back cover, tanning. Internally clean and fairly tight.
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The Dangerous Husband

By: Shapiro, Jane

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1999

Seller ID: 009107

ISBN: 0-316-78247-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

a couple of forty-year-olds get married (so right away you know a mistake has been made), and after the honeymoon ends, "real life begins, with its surprises. He trips up stairs, falls going down. He cooks a tasty dinner and the kitchen ends up looking like a slaughterhouse. Absorbed in sexual experimention, he shatters the coffee table. He tenderly wrenches her neck; he breaks her arm. 'It was turning out that my husband's dishevelment was incomparable, potent, ramifying. It could destroy whole little worlds.'/It will surely destroy her. Unless she can kill him first."; this copy has ...
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Poor Quail

By: Skirrow, Desmond

Price: $11.00

Publisher: London, Bodley Head: 1969

Seller ID: 014270

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Disillusioned by his advertising career and yearning for independence, a man moves into a remote rural area where he must soon deal with his wife's increasing dissatisfaction with the countryside to which she had previously been eager to move. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 238 pages, dust jacket illustration by Peter Cooper. Light general wear, in price-clipped dust jacket w/sunned spine, moderate general wear.
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THE COMIC ART OF LAURENCE STERNE, Convention and Innovation in Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey

By: Stedmond, John M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1967

Seller ID: 007774

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Literary criticism. "The central focus of the study is on 'Tristram Shandy' as comedy and on Sterne's use of Tristram as clown-narrator; other chapters are devoted to the genres to which 'Tristram Shandy' is related, to analysis of style, the satiric as well as the comic elements, and to the significant connections between the 'Sermons of Mr. Yorick' and 'A Sentimental Journey'." Pale green cloth, 178 pages (including appendix and index. A hint of wear to corners/spine ends, tiny soil mark (about the head of a match) to page 63. Rubbed and price-clipped dj w/moderate corner/spine e...
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CUFFER DOWN, Expressions from The Nashwaak & Over North, recalled by An Old Taymite (signed)

By: Stewart, Murray

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Woodstock, Privately published: 1999

Seller ID: 016949

ISBN: 0-9686401-0-9

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

A collection of expressions defined for those not lucky enough to live along the Nashwaak or the Upper Miramichi in New Brunswick. 66 pages. Light general wear.
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The Adventure of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons

By: Thierry, James Francis

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The Neale Publishing Company: 1918

Seller ID: 018297

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

The famous detective Hemlock Holmes and his companion, Doc Watson, have just returned from a three-year stay in the United States when they are engaged to find eleven (of twelve) diamond cuff buttons that have been stolen from the Earl of Puddingham. Generally considered to be the first novel to parody the illustrious Sherlock Holmes. Navy cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 190 pages. Impressions/light soil to covers, some slant, bumped/worn corners/spine ends, spine gilt sunned, sunned/moderately soiled edges, previous owner's named whited out on front end paper.
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Summer of My Amazing Luck (signed)

By: Toews, Mariam

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, Turnstone Press: 1997

Seller ID: 017729

ISBN: 0-88801-205-5

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Two single mothers load their "clothes and toys and food and kids" into "a van held together with coat hangers and electrical tape" and head off to Colorado to find the fire-eating busker who is the father of the twins of one of them. 192 pages, cover illustration by Rick Sealock. Moderate corner wear, moderate general wear.
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THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS b/w QUICK SERVICE

By: Wodehouse, P.G.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Ace Double D-25: 1953

Seller ID: 007978

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

One Jeeves, one not, both good. Cover illustrations by Norman Saunders. Mild spine roll, light edge soil, crease to bottom right tip of 'Quick Service' side, previous owner's name on inside cover of 'The Code of the Woosters' side, tanning. Internally tight.
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Carry On, Jeeves!

By: Wodehouse, P.G.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pocket 495: 1948

Seller ID: 012881

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A collection of ten stories featuring the world's best-known non-murdering butler. 258 pages + advertisements for other Pocket titles, cover illustration by Louis Glanzman. Some rubbing, a hint of slant, mild dampstaining, tanning. Internally tight.
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The Little Nugget

By: Wodehouse, P.G.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1950

Seller ID: 018174

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Ogden Ford, an "overfed, spoiled and repellent little boy" who, when he isn't smoking, swearing up a storm, gambling away money he didn't earn, and making other peoples' lives miserable, is the object of kidnappers' interest. Contains the usual assortment of Wodehouse characters, both those we find charming and sympathetic, and those whom we'd like to punch in the mouth. Twice. Tangerine cloth w/black spine lettering, 220 pages. Strong spine slant, lightly soiled edges, tanning, in dust jacket w/chipping to corners/spine ends, light soil, some dampstaining/discolouration to spine, ...
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Blondie

By: Young, Dean, and Jim Raymond

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap/Tempo Books 12534: 1976

Seller ID: 014757

ISBN: 0-448-12534-X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A collection of strips featuring the Bumsteads, quite possibly the most widely read comic strip in the world. Unpaginated. Only a hint of general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Blondie #2

By: Young, Dean, and Jim Raymond

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap/Tempo Books 14144: 1977

Seller ID: 014760

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

The second collection of strips featuring the Bumsteads, quite possibly the most widely read comic strip in the world. Unpaginated. Rubbing, light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Category: Humour