HUMOR / General from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: St. Martin's, 2003. Fine in fine dust jacket. In pristine condition with dust jacket protective cover. (See scan; foot included for atmosphere and scale.) 359 pages crammed full of Pythons nonsense--some of which, as the authors point out, "is actually true"--and hundreds of photographs from their childhoods and the TV shows and movies, sketches and diagrams of skits… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Schumann, 1951. Very good (tears at top of spine, otherwise tight; clean interior) in heavily sunned and edgeworn dust jacket with a few missing chips; the blurb from the author on the rear panel is intact and clean. See scans. Dust jacket now in archival plastic cover to stop deterioration. This is a Liberty Book Club edition… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Fine in fine dust jacket. The author pokes fun at the self-help industry with 114 pages of tongue-in-cheek guidance to find your perfect sloth. Examples, chosen absolutely at random: her "ten rules of sloth," "1. Do not clean up. . . . Putting something away creates double work, because you'll only need to take… Read more about this item

New York: J.J. Little & Ives , 1908. Very good: (slight crack in spine hinge at first free endpaper, but quite secure anyway, spine worn. Red cloth w/gold letters and decorations, top edge gilding. Ribbon marker barely attached.) No dust jacket. Illus: one plate and printed chapter headings have been hand colored, maybe post publication but very nicely done.… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. Very good (sunning at top of covers) in near fine dj (price clipped, some very light edgewear). Author of "The Education of Hyman Kaplan" and "The Joys of Yiddish." 410 pages. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Pantheon, 1964. SIGNED by author on title page. A collection of Frayn's humorous pieces from the Manchester Guardian. Very good+ (a few light specks on page edges; top of page edges sprayed a light green, apparently as published, with some small browning streaks showing through) in very good-- dust jacket (slightly yellowed front white panel with two closed… Read more about this item

Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1970. Very good+ in wraps, as issued (light foxing on page edges and on the last page). Paperback issued with no jacket. Author's first book, published when he was 22. INSCRIBED by author in 1997. A slim volume of Johnson's wonderful cartoons. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Soft Cover.

New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2001. Fine (one tiny scratch on front cover) in soft covers (no dust jacket, of course). Edition not stated. Subtitle says it all: "97 Things in Life That Annoy, Bother, Chafe, Disturb, Enervate, Frustrate, Grate, Harass, Irk, Jar, Miff, Nettle, Outrage, Peeve, Quash, Rile, Stress Out, Trouble, Upset, Vex, Worry and X, Y, Z… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, 1944. A humorous "Mr. Blandings" type description of the various headaches of country living, "arranged as a glossary & lavishly embellished" by Lawson. A couple of lines from the opening poem hint at the wonders within: "Sing a song of expense/A pocket full of bills/The garden full of rose bugs/Termites in the sills. . .… Read more about this item

New York: George Braziller, 1959. Very good (some light browning along edges and upper portion of covers) in good only dust jacket (sunned and browned, torn and frayed, but complete and presentable in a Brodart jacket). Hilarious verse and drawings. When Mannes was asked to characterize this book, she replied, "Unstuff the shirt." Sample (last verse from… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. 204 pages of Thurber's remarkable cartoons, some from private collections never published before. Very good condition (edgewear at top and bottom of spine, one small spot on top page edges and a few small spots on top edge of binding, one slightly bumped corner) in very good dust jacket (price-clipped; a few closed… Read more about this item