HUMOR from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1959. Very good (bright yellow covers, clear text--looks like a tanned strip from newspaper clipping on title page--with only major defect a tear at the top of the spine) in very good- dust jacket (heavily edgeworn at top of spine and folds, soiled spine, now looking somewhat better in archival protective jacket). A selection… Read more about this item

London: Allen Lane, 1982. Fine condition in near fine dust jacket (a bit of fading at the spine). Two of Lear's sketchbooks were discovered in 1981, previously unknown material. They contain 79 illustrated nonsense limericks. The illustrations, Lear's own, are reproduced here in the original sizes from the notebooks. 79 pages plus a foreword and introduction which describes the occasion… Read more about this item

New York: Nesor Publishing Co, 1934. Good+ (offset on front and back free endpaper from something laid in, green covers are sunned at spine bottom and top and lightly along edges; dusty top page edges; small white spot on rear cover; interior clean and tight) in chipped and sunned dust jacket (now looking more presentable in a Brodart protective cover).… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979. Very good (a few foxing spots on page edges) in good+ dust jacket (edgeworn lightly, water spot on front panel that has not spotted the book itself, however). Book Club Edition. Bierce's humorous and sarcastic definitions supplemented by Suares's drawings. Examples of Bierce's humor: "Destiny: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse… 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: Dutton, 1991. Fine (except for giver's ink inscription on first free endpaper) in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped, otherwise fine). A wonderful compilation of quotations about dogs--funny, witty, wise. 265 pages including two indexes--one for humans, one for dogs.. 1st Edition. Hard 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

New York: Norton, 1981. Fine (very light smudging to top page edges) in fine dust jacket (bottom corner of front flap has been clipped but not price-clipped).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Nesor Publishing Co , 1934. Very good in dust jacket w/ badly chipped top edge.. Hard Cover.