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Helsingfors: Holger Schildts Förlag, 1957. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Swedish language. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Wraps have overall handling wear. Humorous essays by Kar de Mumma (1904-1997) (Erik Harald Zetterström), Swedish writer. 7.75" tall; 150 pages.

Oneonta, NY: State University of New York, 1968. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, slightly tanned. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Contents: Political satire on Communist Europe and Latin America. Feinberg, Political satire in Communist Europe. Fox, Topaze: barometer of Chilean politics. Bogen, Blake's "Island in the Moon" revisited. Toole, "The Rape of the Lock," II, 105-107. Nichols, West, Lewis, Pope and satiric contrasts. Satire by William T. Pilkington, James A. Heffernan, Robert L. White, James C. Cowan, "Edoardo Hofmeister," E. S. Rock, Leonard Conversi. Poetry, Satura Lanx, reivews. ; 8.5" tall ; 188 pages.

Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Förlag, 1956. Softcover. Fair with no dust jacket. Sound, stitched binding. Pictorial wraps are heavily worn and there is soiling overall to the exterior. Tears at the bottom of the spine with wraps beginning to detach from text block. Occasional smudges in margins of age-darkened pages. Writing on title page. Book is in the Swedish language. By Swedish humorist Olle Carle (1909-1998) , noted for his wordplay and puns. Title translates as "Shady on the Surface." ; 157 pages.

New York: Grove Press, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing, light overall shelf wear. Geographical index not included. Many limericks, most with erotic, bawdy, sexual tone, with commentary by British novelist Norman Douglas (1868-1952). Originally published in 1928. 8.5" (18.5 cm) tall; 87 pages.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, lightly tanned pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing and shelf wear. ; Collection of Thurber's stories, articles, essays, drawings, and reflections on criminal actions. 8.5" tall; 208 pages.

New York: Nick Lyons Books, 1984. First Edition; First Printing. softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. First Edition; First Printing. Square, sound binding. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Wrappers have light handling wear including some curling. ; Parody of literary criticism journal. Contents: Michelangelo Bermudas, "Intertextuality"; Leonard Scott-Mongos, "B/S: An Essay by Rodeo Barkis"; "Earl," "Rhapsody in Ugly"; Leman, Loch, ed., "Selections from the Noron Reader"; Iowa Ollive, "Variations on a Theme by Betsy Bell" and much more. 9.5" tall; 123 pages.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1991. Hard Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. A nice tight, square copy in a red cloth binding with clear acetate cover affixed; text is clean, bright, and unmarked; binding shows small points of minor rubbing at corners and spine end. ; A librarian takes a mostly humorous look at books, public libraries, librarians, library patrons, his profession, and his own life as a librarian. 9.25" tall; 174 pages.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. DJ is tanned with light edge wear. ; Collection by American poet and humorist Ogden Nash (1902-1971). ; 8.0" tall; 169 pages.

Potsdam, NY: Wallace Stevens Society, Inc, 2003. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Iain Jacobs. Square, tight binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Contents: Altieri, Intentionality as sensuality in Harmonium. Eeckhout, A translator's experience with the transformations of Wallace Stevens' poetry. Harrison, Wallace Stevens and the Noh tradition. Clippinger, Breaking against the waves of silence: the voice of being in Wallace Stevens and William Bronk. Bohm, The identity of the "green queen" in "Description without Place." Olson, Stevens and Auden: antimythological meetings. Poems, reviews, news and comments. Cover Art; 9.0" tall; 106 pages.

New York: Celadon Books, 2020. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine with no dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Signed by both authors on front endpaper preceding half title page. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Pictorial paper over boards is clean with minor shelf wear. ; Cartoons by comedian Steve Martin and New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. ; 8.5" tall.