Resultados de búsqueda: Humor/Wit from 100 POCKETS

Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel/Universal Press, 1993. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Scott Adams (Author-Cartoonist). Text/As New. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/edge rubs & faint creasings to corners. A Dogbert cartoon. It is acknowledged, in Dogbert's prologue (which needs to be read in full), since time memorial there have been many rules on etiquette, and subsequently, much printed verbage. This volume, however, is unique in not only being fully updated (in line with technological advances (such as the appearance of microwaves) and full of practical guidance. It does address the reader as "the unwashed heathen you really are!" Contents are: 1, Eating & Drinking; 2, Business; 3, Manners & Your Body; 4, Men & Women,; 5, Laughter; 6, Boring People; 7, Parents & Children; 8, Death; 9, Marriage; 10, Telephone; 11, Gifts, Parties & Entertainment; 12, Miscellaneous Etiquette; 13, People Who Are Different; 14, Updated Manners… Leer más

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's, 1984, 1984. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Collectible - Fine/Fine. Archival Photographs. Text/BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Over-the-counter antidotes for anyone short on happiness. Renowned actor, wit, with academic credentials from the Cedars-Sinai Center for Hard Knocks, Dr. George Burns (1896 - 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, with an impressive record of frequent name changes, and famous wife Gracie Allen, shares remedies for tickling the funny bone. This is the fifth book from one of the world's top comedians. 189 pgs with archival b/w photos in 11 chapters.. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Gotham Books/Penguin Group, 2004. First American Edition, 6th Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Good w/soil spot &wrinkle to lower front edge, and small loss w/ink mark to upper spine. PO stamp to fEP. Literary, spirited, witty and scholarly monograph on the role of punctuation in proper usage of the English language --- rightful recognition of the frequently ignored "poor stepchild of grammar". 209 pgs in 7 chapters flushed with examples: 1, Introduction - The Seventh Sense; 2, The Tractable Apostrophe; 3, That'll Do, Comma; 4, Airs & Graces; 5, Cutting a Dash; 6, A Litted Used Punctuation Mark; and 7, Merely Conventional Signs.

New York, NY: Hyperion, 1994. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Jane Wagner (Illustrations). Text/BRAND NEW Copy. First Edition, First Printing. Bi-color boards Fine. Dustjacket/Price-clipped, else fine. Whisper of light-brown spotting (acidic paper reaction to upper text block). Philosophical musings and reflections of six-something alter-ego on Laugh-In of Lily Tomlin, the remarkable and thinking Edith Ann.

Mexico City, Mexico: Editorial Joaquin Mortiz, 1963. Segunda Edicion, 1973 . Paperback. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY; Spanish text. Compilation of cartoons from Mexica political cartoonist and painter Abel Quezada (1920 - 1991) who also gave us 12 covers for the New Yorker magazine. First published in 1963, w/some works first appearing in newspapers; this is the 2nd Edition of 1973. A genius in mind and pen yet gracious, Quezada was propelled by his dream for an ideal world ("para ser un sueno ... para ... mundo ideal) --- that Mexico become rich and strong, and a civilized world. In his reflections and hence subject matter, Quezada spared neither the rich nor the poor, and certainly not the lnstitutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, that long dominated Mexico. Voice of man with dreams and hopes.

Düsseldorf: Verlag Eremiten-Presse, 1979. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Wolfdietrich Schnurre (Author-Illustrator). EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED. No loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW. Gray softcover/NF. "A fullfilled life from the posthumous papers of the Higher Administrative Inspector Karl Heinz Krenzke, and edited by Wolf Dietrich Schnurre". Coming of age in Germany. About 80 pages, versos numbered 1 tro 40, cartoon descriptives on the left pages sardonic drawings on the right.pages. Fine copy despite library markings.

Clausthaler Kommersbuch-Verlag, 1992. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Cloth. Near Fine/None as Issued. Willhelm Busch (Illustrator). German Language text. BRAND NEW COPY w/light soiling to front/back of white, linen softcover. Collection of humorus limericks. Title oft translated into English as "If someone borrows a glass of wine...".

New York, NY: Random House, 1965. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Dr. Seuss (Author-Illustrator). COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Thus. Beginner Books No: B-38. Stitched hard back. Text/NF; Clean, bright & Near New with one folded inner corner (pg 29, by spine). Illustrated high-gloss boards/NF. DJ/NF; price clipped. A fun, challenging book of word-play in verse, and meant to be read aloud. Populated by colored, fanciful beings in pen-and-ink, Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991) pens a cautionary fore-note on front endpaper reading, "Take it slowly. This book is dangerous!"; and, an after-note on the rear endpaper solicitiously wonders, "Now, is your tongue numb?" Fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket.

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1993. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Jim Davis (Author-Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG w/faint creasings to upper front corner, and wear to front corner tips. 24th issue in the antics of Garfield, America's beloved cat from award-wining cartoonist Jim Davis (1945 -) who grew up on a small Indiana farm in the company of 25 felines.

New York, NY: Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 2001. First Edition/First Thus . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Humor or wit, or both? Intentional or accidental, or both? Fun collection, with equally non-committal b/w photos, of quotes from George W. Bush (1946 -), 46 th Govenor of Texas (1995 - 2000), and our 43rd President (2001 - 2009) assembled by Newsweek columnist and editor of Slate magazine Jacob Weisberg (1964 -). Uttered Oct 18th, 2000 in La Crosse, Wisconsin is one such that led to the coining of "Bushism" --- "Families is where our nations finds hope, where wings take dream".

Hamburg Germany: XENOS Verlagsgesellschaft M.b.H., 1986. Brown Linen. Very Good/No Jacket. Hilarious texts and drawings by the master cartoonist. Volume 4 contains the Knopp-Trilogie, Abenteuer eines Junggesellen, Herr und Frau Knopp, and Julchen. 399 pages in excellent condition.

New York, NY: Warner Paperback Library, 1972. First Edition, 17th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Softcover/VG; sound w/liight edge rubs and faint vertical creasing to back. Text blocks dyed yellow. Anthology of hunorous essays from director, writer, actor, and comedian Woody Allen (1935 - ). 109 pgs. with 17 essays, most first published in the New Yorkerm and other publications..

New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1971, 1971. Reprint . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & showing margin discoloration. Cover/NF w/light shelfwear. Zoologist Marston Bates (1906 - 1974) is known for studies on mosquitoes and contribution to understanding the epidemiology of yellow fever in northern South America. First published 1958; this is a 1971 printing. A look at some biological "handicaps" that comes with being a human primate. A witty, encyclopedic collection of our salient, behavorial food & sex patterns, and other reoccuriing aberrations that question the validity whether we can lay claim to being that uniquely rational a being. Bates shares : "non-human primates" tend to behave poorly when confined to zoos. And, man, constricted by social mores & institutions? Is it why he cannot but dispoil his own environment, repudiate readily available foods for the exotic, and delights in frowned upon sexual activities? Lighthearted, entertainining… Leer más

Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co, 1942. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/Good. Text/NEW & Brights w/unopend pages. Gilt embossed, red linen boards/VG w/trace wear. DJ/VG w/edge wear, small losses to upper/lower spine edges, & apine discoloration. PO label to fEP. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. 180 pgs. Anthology, some first published in periodicals, of selected verse by poet Frederic Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971). Light, droll verse with unconventional, pun-like rhymes and playful use of deliberately mis-spelled words made his verse a great favorite of America. For instance, on foods, how about: "The parsnip, children, I repeat/ Is simply an anemic beet/ Some people call the parsnip edible/ Myself, I find this claim incredible"; "Celery, raw/ Develops the jaw/ But celery, stewed/ Is more quietly chewed"; "Parsley/ Is gharsley"; and, "One cantalope is ripe and lush/ Another's green, another's mush/ I'd buy a lot more… Leer más

New York, NY: Little, Brown & Co/Hachette Book Group, 2008. First Edition, 6th Printing . Hardcover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. A politcal, humorous, exaggerated immitation of Goodnight Moon, a children's bedtime story by Margaret Wise Brown & illustrated by Clement Hurd, featuringf a bunny saying "good night" to everything around, written on the birth year of George W. Bush. This parody stars 43rd President George W, Bush (eldest son of 41st President George H. W. Bush). Here, our supreme leader bids goodnight to "a quiet Dick Cheney whispering 'hush'; "Goodnight ballot box, "Goodnight FOX"; "Goodnight Constitution:"; and "Goodnight failures everywhere".

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. G.B. Trudeau (Author-Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/sticker removal shadow to upper left front & trace edge rubs.. Political commentaries of Garretson Beekman Trudeau (1948 -), 1975 receipient of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. The volume contains the un-muzzled ravings of Mark Slackmeyer and R.M. "Dick" Nixon's operational candor.

New York, NY: Perigee Books/Putname Publishing, 1991. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New showing trace margin discoloration. Softcover/VG w/edge rubs & faint creasings to corner & light surface wear; from faulty handling, push to front corner & coffee(?) to back left smudges to some corner margin tips. The Harvard Lampoon was founded in 1876 by 7 undergraduates at Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. in the spirit of popular magazines like Punch (1841) and Puck (1871); a satircally humorous campus alternative to the Harvard Crimson. This 1991 book allows one to experience the great educational adventure of Harvard without personal attendance and the expense!. 192 pgs w/illustrations; detailed guide in 4 parts: I, Welcome to Harvard!; II, Basic Training; III, Let's Learn Together!; and, IV, Now What?, followed by an Authentic Harvard Diploma. Strong copy despite flaws.

New York, NY: A Tor Book/Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback/Cartoons. Good/None as Issued. George Gately(Author & Illustrator). Text/New w/margin discoloration. Unpaginated pages w/loss to half of one page followed by some 6 pgs w/creasings towards latter half of book (dropped & poorly retrieved? Now fortified w/archival tape) to "Heathcliff in Horse Feathers". Softcover/Good; intact, shelfworn w/edge wear & creasings to upper front corner. Anthology of 8 previously published Marvel Comics cartoon strips of Heathcliff --- the fat-cat-with-an-attitude created by George Gately Gallagher (1928 - 2001), who dropped his last name of Gallagher to avoid confusion with his successful brother John whom he followed into the cartoon business. Of scruffy pedigree, a penchant for trouble, & an irreverent attitude, Heathcliff was the rage of the mid-70s, featured in some 1,000 newspapers, so his, and that of his creator, became true-blue household names.

Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. David Boyd (Illustrator). BRAND NEW & Collectible. Americanism at its laughing best. No subject exempt --- Emily Post, Dear Abbey, thank-you-notes, pickup trucks with fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view window --- and all treated with joshing irreverence.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1992. Reissue of 1992, First Printing . Hard Cover/Stitched. Near Fine/Near Fine. Alice M. Brock (Author-Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace wear, First published 1985. This is the First Printing of the 1992 reissue. Pet care for felines. Hilarious how-to guide for cat owners. Author Alice M. Brock is the former owner and chef of the world-famous Alice's Restaurant of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, immortalized both in Arlo Guthrie's song and the film by the same name.