Category: Humour

HARPOON, September 1974

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, Justin Green, Paul Ki...
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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

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: About Good

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 pages + 2 pages of advertisements for other Avon titles. Bottom corner torn from page 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

Re-offers 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-13: 9780682484961

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Ault's second novel, being "The hilarious adventures of a million-dollar lottery winner and the girls who help him spend it." 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-13: 9780571197712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: About Very Good

Baker is best known as one of television's many incarnations of Doctor Who. Here he gives us the grotesque and horrific story of an evil 13-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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An AFB 5-book humour (humor) multi-pack: The Pocket Book of Jokes, Mr. Adam, Laugh With Leacock, Ship Ahoy, Fun in Bed

By: Cerf, Bennett A. (editor), Pat Frank, Stephen Leacock, H.L. Mencken et al, Frank Scully (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pocket 294, Pocket 498, Pocket 398, Avon 567, Pocket 504

Seller ID: 018860

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Reading copies (Good or better)

Five titles presenting a variety of jokes, humourous stories and cartoons. In addition to Mencken, 'Ship Ahoy' contains work by Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, W.W. Jacobs, Bret Harte, and Mark Kerr. All are intact with general wear, but it would be a really good idea to read them carefully to prevent spine cracks.
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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: Hardcover

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 case is diagnosed as temporary insanity -- and w...
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The Americans Are Coming (signed)

By: Curtis, Herb

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions : 1989

Seller ID: 019042

ISBN-13: 9780864921086

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Curtis's first novel, which was also the first title in his acclaimed Brennen Siding Trilogy. 263 pages. Mildly sunned spine, light surface wear, gently bumped corners, thin reading crease to spine, small soil mark to top right corner of half-title.
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Washing the Hands

By: Dehan, Aiken A.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart

Seller ID: 008250

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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 pages, illustrated. Gentle crinkle to top right corner of front free end paper, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/mild chipping to corners/spine...
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Why Me? (Luann #2)

By: Evans, Greg

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Berkley Pacer 08879 : 1986

Seller ID: 014715

ISBN-13: 9780425088791

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 Worm's Revenge

By: Ferrari, Leo

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Fredericton, The Mortuary Press : 1968

Seller ID: 019255

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Ferrari's uncommon first book of poetry ("A Bundle of Scurrilous Verse Scribbled in the Back of a Hearse"), with a foreword by Al Pittman. Typescript, 56 pages. General handling wear.
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DON CARLOS & other stories (signed)

By: FitzGerald, James Arnold

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, Bond Publishing Company : 1981

Seller ID: 019193

ISBN-13: 9780939296002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

"A collection of short stories taken from unusual occurrences in the field of medicine." Red cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 161 pages. Mildly cocked, previous owner's pencil notation to front end paper, moderately tanned edges, in rubbed dust jacket w/a bit of edgewear, impressions.
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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-13: 9780986518317

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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BRICKLEMANSHIP, The New Brunswick Grief Book

By: Fredericks, H.A. (unattributed)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Omega Publishing Division of Omega Management Services : 1978

Seller ID: 018868

ISBN-13: 9780969073215

Binding: Stapled Wraps

Condition: Good

A spoof taking aim at Malcolm Bricklin, New Brunswick premier Richard Hatfield, and Bricklin's ill-fated automotive project that ended up costing New Brunswick taxpayers a lot of money. Unpaginated, illustrated. Bottom left corner of front cover chipped, thin crosscracks, moderate handling wear.
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GALLICO MAGIC, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to NewYork, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Parliament, The Snow Goose, The Small Miracle, Ludmila, Coronation

By: Gallico, Paul

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Garden City, Nelson Doubleday, Inc. : 1967

Seller ID: 019228

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Omnibus volume containing seven stories, three of them featuring the irrepressible Ada Harris. Blue faux leather w/gilt spine lettering, 477 pages, illustrated. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, small scrapes to spine, light foxing to fore-edge, previous owner's name/date to top edge of front end paper, bump along top edge of front cover, tanning.
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THE SECOND GLENCANNON OMNIBUS (includes Mr. Glencannon, The Gentleman With the Walrus Mustache, Glencannon Afloat)

By: Gilpatric, Guy

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1952

Seller ID: 018498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: About Very Good

Contains "twenty-eight adventures of that salty and uproarious engineer who sails the seven seas aboard the S.S. Inchcliffe Castle, fortified only with two gnarled fists and a bottle of Duggan's Dew." Blue cloth w/dark blue illustration to front cover, dark blue spine lettering, 472 pages. Some cocking, bumped spine ends, light corner wear, small bookseller's tag to bottom left corner of first end paper, in a weary dust jacket w/edge tears, chipping, sunned spine, two large pieces missing from spine (one top, one bottom), handling wear.
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Lucky Luke: Calamity Jane, Dalton City, Jesse James, The Stage Coach, The Tenderfoot, Western Circus

By: Goscinny (Rene)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Greenwich, Dargaud Publishing International

Seller ID: 019062

ISBN-13: 9780917201318

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Six issues of the best-selling comic series featuring Lucky Luke, a gunslinger in the American Old West, and his smarter-than-most-humans horse, Jolly Jumper. Translated from the French by Pablo Vela ('Calamity Jane') and Frederick W. Nolan (the rest). Some issues have a few impressions, w/the rest only moderate handling wear. While currently fairly tight internally, these Dargaud publications are poorly bound, and often crack the spine when opened carelessly, so cautious handling while reading is strongly suggested.
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NON STOP REVIEW, 21 Years of Grayson (signed)

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

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chichester, Barry Rose : 1994

Seller ID: 005711

Binding: Hardcover

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 signed by the illust...
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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: Hardcover

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 pages. Spine a bit cocked, dusty edges, gentle corner/spine end wear; dust jacket w/mild corne...
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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-13: 9780399536076

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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UNCLE REMUS, His Songs and His Sayings

By: Harris, Joel Chandler

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company : 1895

Seller ID: 019147

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First published in 1880, with this 15-years-later edition boasting a "Preface and Dedication to the New Edition," and 112 illustrations, 11 of which are the full-page variety. Illustrated red cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, top edge gilt, 265 pages + six pages of advertisements promoting other Appleton titles. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, lightly soiled cloth, sun-darkened spine (lettering still legible), a couple of moderately shaken signatures.
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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

Features B.C., the Fat Broad, Wiley, Clumsy Carp, the Cute Chick, Thor and all the rest of your favourite cavemen.
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Good 'N' Sick

By: Hirsch, Phil, and Paul Laikin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Zebra 00268

Seller ID: 008749

ISBN-13: 9780846800262

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

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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By: Johnston, Wayne

Price: $20.00

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

Seller ID: 017823

ISBN-13: 9780771044472

Binding: Hardcover

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. Tanned edges w/a small soil spot to bottom edge, faint soil mark to bottom edge of ba...
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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: Soft cover

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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Category: Humour