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100 Years 100 Stories

By: George Burns

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Putnam Adult: January 1996

Seller ID: 260670

ISBN: 0399141790

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

101 So Bad, They're Good Dad Jokes

By: Elias Hill

Price: $5.99

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform: July 2017

Seller ID: 254241

ISBN: 1973749122

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light wear.
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101 Two-Letter Words

By: Stephin Merritt

Price: $19.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: October 2014

Seller ID: 95459

ISBN: 0393240193

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Rolling Stone has called singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields "the Cole Porter of his generation"; O, The Oprah Magazine has hailed cartoonist Roz Chast as "the wryest pen since Dorothy Parker's." Together they have crafted a wonderfully witty book that is sure to prove useful to Scrabble players and Words With Friends addicts--and to delight anyone in thrall to the weirder corners of the English language.

With the mordant wit and clever wordplay of Edward Gorey or Shel Silverstein, Stephin Merritt has written an original four-line rhyming poem for each...
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20 Party Tricks: to Amuse and Amaze Your Friends

By: Sophie Blackall

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Chronicle Books: January 1997

Seller ID: 144046

ISBN: 0811816591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

How much fun can one person have with a banana? The answer lies in this illustrated compendium of twenty wacky tricks. Making use of objects that can, like all the best guests, be found in the kitchen, 20 Party Tricks is funny, amazing, easy to follow, and occasionally downright disgusting. It's also the perfect gift for the hostess with the mostest, the wallflower longing to blossom, and anyone who'd like to be the life and soul of the party.
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49 Uses for a Walking Stick

By: Frank Hopkinson

Price: $9.95

Publisher: National Trust: July 2019

Seller ID: 252184

ISBN: 191135874X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Walking sticks have had a bad press. For too long the walking stick has been portrayed as a workaday item of codgerism, a simple support for the aged and infirm.

This is not the case. Possession of a walking stick opens up a whole gamut of opportunities beyond the simple 'leaning against' purpose. In 49 Uses for A Walking Stick Frank Hopkinson explains the variety of practical uses a walking stick can be put to, from flicking filthy slugs off a lawn and parting crowds to alerting a theatre-goer two rows in front that his rapid consumption of fruit bonbons is ruining everyone'...
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5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides) (The Oatmeal)

By: The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing: March 2011

Seller ID: 151580

ISBN: 1449401163

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Prepare to laugh your ass off. The hilarity of TheOatmeal.com is now presented in book form with 35 never-before-seen pieces and 25 classic favorites from the Web site, including 6 Types of Crappy Hugs and 17 Things Worth Knowing about Your Cat.

In Matthew Inman's New York Times best selling 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides), samurai sword-wielding kittens and hamsters that love .50-caliber machine guns commingle with a cracked out Tyrannosaur that is extremely hard to potty train. Bacon is better than true love and you may awake in...
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A Brief History of Vice: How Drunk Monkeys, Foot Fetishes, and Talking Sh*t Built Humanity

By: Robert Evans

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Plume: August 2016

Seller ID: 106912

ISBN: 0147517605

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun--or more intoxicating.

Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history, from...
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A Comic Book of Sports

By: Arnold Roth

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Atheneum: November 1974

Seller ID: 252223

ISBN: 0684138867

Binding: Library Binding

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Rabbi Confesses

By: Rabbi Bob Alper

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Finkstrom Productions: November 1995

Seller ID: 267093

ISBN: 1888016183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The hilarious stand-up comedy of Rabbi Bob Alper is translated into a wonderful book of full-color cartoons.
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A to Zion: The Definitive Israeli Lexicon

By: Gilad Atzmon, Enzo Apicella

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Fanfare Press: February 2015

Seller ID: 159008

ISBN: 0993183700

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A**holeology The Cheat Sheet: Put the science into practice in everyday situations

By: Chris Illuminati

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Adams Media: January 2011

Seller ID: 28285

ISBN: 1440510172

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Whatever the problem, an asshole knows how to deal. And for those who don't--but want to--there's this guide. It takes the concepts covered in the bestselling original and applies them to everyday life.

Now you can quit being a pansy and get what you want without looking like a douchebag. It's spelled out step by step. Need to sign a new account? Done. Score better seats to the playoff game? Handled. Pick up that girl at the bar? Easy when you're an asshole.

Class was dismissed at the conclusion of A--holeology. Now it's time to take to the field with The Cheat Sheet.
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Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese

By: Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company: March 2002

Seller ID: 22057

ISBN: 0761125183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do. -Lena Horne

"I take a simple view of living. It is: Keep your eyes open and get on with it." -Laurence Olivier

"The only sin is mediocrity." -Martha Graham

"When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks." -Albert Einstein

"Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."-Jimmy Carter

Full of surprise, insight, humor, perspective, celebration, inspiration, and a kind of offhand, poignant poetry, Age Doesn't ...
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All I Really Needed to Know I Learned While Still in Diapers: A Crib'S-Eye View of Life's Little Lessons

By: N/A

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Avon Books (P): February 1991

Seller ID: 190881

ISBN: 0380764326

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

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America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't

By: Stephen Colbert

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: October 2012

Seller ID: 213320

ISBN: 0446583979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, glasses included, light wear.
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American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures

By: Willie Geist

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Hyperion: August 2011

Seller ID: 61240

ISBN: 1401310524

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This is not the first book written about quantum mechanics, but it just might be the last. The theory presented inside these pages is so revolutionary that it has stunned the scientific community into reconsidering centuries of thought about the behavior of energy and matter. Prepare to have your mind blown.
Sorry, that's the introduction to Willie Geist's next book--the culmination of his life's work. Look for it next spring, just in time for Mother's Day. This book is about his other passion: freaks.
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An Alarming History of Famous and Difficult Patients: Amusing Medical Anecdotes from Typhoid Mary to FDR

By: Richard Gordon

Price: $5.98

Publisher: St Martins Pr: March 1997

Seller ID: 256870

ISBN: 0312150482

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A compendium about the medical travails of famous people throughout history offers colorful anecdotes and intriguing observations about such difficult patients as Stalin, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler, and King Charles II.
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Are Men Necessary When Sexes Collide

By: Maureen Dowd

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Headline Books, London: December 2005

Seller ID: 111960

ISBN: 0755315502

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Are You As Happy As Your Dog ?

By: Alan Cohen

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Alan Cohen Pubns: January 1996

Seller ID: 268635

ISBN: 0910367299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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Assassination!: The Brick Chronicle of Attempts on the Lives of Twelve US Presidents

By: Smith, Brendan Powell

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing: November 2013

Seller ID: 272540

ISBN: 1620879980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Creator of the bestselling The Brick Bible: A New Spin on the Old Testament and The Brick Bible: The New Testament, author Brendan Powell Smith offers a new take on American history. For more than a decade, Smith has honed his masterful work using LEGO(R) to re-create scenes from the Bible. Now, he turns his attention to unforgettable US presidential assassinations, both fatal and failed. Rediscover some of the most profound attacks that have occurred throughout US history involving the notorious assassinations on Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. But did yo...
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Babushkin's Catalogue of Jewish Inventions: A Jewish Cartoon Humor Guide for Your Modern Lifestyle with a Yiddish Accent

By: Lawrence Bush & Richard Codor

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Loose Line Productions, Inc.: August 2011

Seller ID: 269260

ISBN: 0979921821

Condition: New - New

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Babushkin's Catalogue of Jewish Inventions: A Jewish Cartoon Humor Guide for Your Modern Lifestyle with a Yiddish Accent

By: Lawrence Bush & Richard Codor

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Loose Line Productions, Inc.: August 2011

Seller ID: 32172

ISBN: 0979921821

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Back the F*ck Up!: Wild Animals That Don't Give a Sh*t!

By: Danny Vittore

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Krause Publications: May 2012

Seller ID: 52928

ISBN: 1440229252

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Holy Sh*t Run for your lives
The animal kingdom is a messed-up place. Good thing you don't have to live in it because there are animals that would make Chuck Norris look like a wuss.
In this tell-all tale of Animals Gone Wild, humorist Danny Vittore introduces you to the F U attitude of creatures great and small, including the fearless honey badger, which has the balls to take on lions and king cobras just for laughs; Gary Busey batsh*t crazy squirrels; and cane toads, which love to hump things Jersey Shore style.

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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Back Bay Books: June 1995

Seller ID: 241204

ISBN: 0316779423

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date wi...
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BatDad

By: Blake Wilson

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: May 2016

Seller ID: 90145

ISBN: 0451495500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Life as an everyday superhero when your Batmobile is a minivan, the villains you face are your crazy kids, and your Bat Cave is always covered in piles of dirty laundry.
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Beyond The Far Side

By: Gary Larson

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing: August 1983

Seller ID: 243453

ISBN: 0836211499

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The second The Far Side collection.
1981, 1983 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.
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Bossypants

By: Tina Fey

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books: January 2012

Seller ID: 249433

ISBN: 0316056871

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.
She has seen both these dreams come true.
At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided ...
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Brain Droppings

By: George Carlin

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Hachette Books: May 1998

Seller ID: 265556

ISBN: 0786883219

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

With hundreds of sold-out concert dates each year, over 20 albums, two Grammys, two Cable ACE awards, and more HBO specials that anyone else, George Carlin is more popular than ever. Now Carlin's New York Times bestselling book comes to paperback. Filled with thoughts, musings, questions, lists, beliefs, curiosities, monologues, assertions, assumptions, and other delicious verbal ordeals, Brain Droppings is drop-dead funny.
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Breaking Stephan: A Pearls Before Swine Collection

By: Stephan Pastis

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing: November 2014

Seller ID: 56886

ISBN: 1449458300

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The addictive humor, snarky cast, and calculated wit of Pearls Before Swine returns in its most recent collection, Breaking Stephan, cracking wise on the hit crime drama Breaking Bad.
The familiar gang of characters cook up hilarity with their banter on current events, bicyclists, and the strip's creator, Stephen Pastis. Some of the action this time around features Rat in his very own movie, driven by the brilliant plot of "Rat kicks Pig," and Croc's pursuit of a job with the one weapon in his skillset: drinking.
Pastis's Breaking Stephan is sure to enterta...
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Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's Big Book of Business

By: Adams, Scott

Price: $5.48

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing: March 1994

Seller ID: 273772

ISBN: 0836217578

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Anyone who ever toiled in the office environment will identify with the ironclad axioms put forth by Dogbert in this collection of office wisdom. So, move over Murphy's Law, and forget about the One-Minute Manger--Dogbert is taking the business-book business by storm. Dogbert appears in the nationally syndicated comic strip Dilbert. Illustrated.
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Canned Laughter: The Best Stories from Radio and Television

By: Peter Hay

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: November 1992

Seller ID: 162124

ISBN: 019506836X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Jack Benny, Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Lucille Ball, Walter Winchell, Walter Cronkite--the giants of the airwaves, with all their quips, quotes, foibles, and insights, have now been gathered together in one delightful book. Peter Hay, best-selling author of Broadway Anecdotes and Movie Anecdotes, has collected stories of journalists and jokesters, inventors and investors, sportsmen and sponsors, presidents and producers, providing a riotous ride through the whole history of radio and television.
By turns hilarious and insightful, these anecdotes offer revealing portraits of the personal...
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Capitol Hell Political Monsters Postcard Book

By: Pete Von Sholly

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Denis Kitchen Publishing Co., LLC: January 2008

Seller ID: 228977

ISBN: 0971008094

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

CAPITOL HELL is a snarky political satire artfully crossing today's politicians with yesterday's schlock horror and science fiction movies. Some will laugh and others will laugh uncomfortably at the startling results. Examples: Rudy Giuliani + Nosferati = Nosferudy. Or Dick Cheney + Dracula forms Dickula (choking Colin Powell. Card back describes Dickula administering a fatal Colinoscopy). Other abominations include I Married a Mormon From Outer Space, The Gorelem, Attack of the Fifty-Something Woman (Hillary), Mahar's Attacks, Murthra, The Creature From the Black Community (Al Sharpton), The ...
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Cat's Letters to Santa

By: N/A

Price: $2.98

Publisher: Galahad: November 1997

Seller ID: 149094

ISBN: 157866005X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Dear Santa:
I desperately need a new computer so I can talk to other cats on the Internet.
OK, it's my fault the old one doesn't work. I honestly thought the mouse was a toy so I kind of batted it around. By the time I realized the fish was a screensaver, the monitor was pretty scratched.
Sincerely,
Einstein Two, Cat
Feisty felines making very specific Christmas demands: what could be funnier or more appealing to cat lovers? Delightfully illustrated with drawings throughout, this whimsical collection of letters to Santa reveals, for the first time, what kitty just can't do wi...
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Cats and Dogs : Mutts II

By: MCDONNELL, PATRICK

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub: September 1997

Seller ID: 272951

ISBN: 0836237323

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Mutts centers on the day-to-day adventures of two companion animals: a dog named Earl and a cat named Mooch. Earl and Mooch interact with each other, their human guardians and a large cast of neighborhood animals.
Mutts explores the special bond between animals and their guardians, and the endearing friendship of Earl, the dog, and Mooch, the cat. It strikes a delicate balance between joy, fun and responsible social commentary. Mutts has been recognized for its distinctive style, heartwarming humor and compassionate advocacy for animal issues.

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Chickens in Your Backyard : A Beginners Guide

By: RICK. LUTTMANN

Price: $6.95

Publisher: St Martins Pr: September 1976

Seller ID: 190745

ISBN: 0878571256

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you've ever tasted. The answer is chickens--endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space and food.
As they learned to raise chickens, Gail and Rick Luttmann came to realize the need for a comprehensive but clear and nontechnical guide. Their book covers all the basics in a light and entertaining sytle, from housing and feeding through incubating, bringing up chicks, butchering, and raising chickens for show.
Througout Chickens In Your Backyard, the Luttmanns express their wonder at the personalities of ...
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Cows Of Our Planet (Far Side Series)

By: Gary Larson

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing: November 1992

Seller ID: 243454

ISBN: 0836217012

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

1992 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.
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Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

By: Barry, Dave

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: September 1998

Seller ID: 271555

ISBN: 0345425782

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and Wheel of Fortune contestant Dave Barry exposes the shattering truth. Whether he's splashing with the U.S. sychronized swim team ("Picture a bunch of elegant swans swimming with a flailing sea cow") or reliving the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving ("We've decided to obliterate your culture, but first may we try the stuffing?"), Dave Barry proves that one man can make a difference--by having the guts to answer the questions few people bother to ask:
, What makes people want to eat animals they would never consider petting?
, Where do ...
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David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium

By: David Sedaris,Jeffrey Jenkins

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: October 2017

Seller ID: 253634

ISBN: 0316431710

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

A remarkable illustrated volume of artwork and images selected from the diaries David Sedaris has been creating for four decades
In this richly illustrated book, readers will for the first time experience the diaries David Sedaris has kept for nearly 40 years in the elaborate, three-dimensional, collaged style of the originals. A celebration of the unexpected in the everyday, the beautiful and the grotesque, this visual compendium offers unique insight into the author's view of the world and stands as a striking and collectible volume in itself.
Compiled and edited by Sedaris's ...
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Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale

By: Chris Ayres

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Grove Press: February 2010

Seller ID: 241297

ISBN: 0802143652

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

For Chris Ayres, the young British journalist whose first book, War Reporting for Cowards, was celebrated as gripping (People), blushingly honest (Los Angeles Times), and hysterically funny (CNN), life in Hollywood is no celebrity junket--it's a full-immersion gonzo experiment. After returning to Los Angeles from his harrowing experience in Iraq, Ayres decides to trade the front lines of war for the front lines of the extreme leisure economy. Like Hunter Thompson crossed with one of David Brooks's bobos in paradise, Ayres embeds himself in L.A.'s leisuretocracy: an over-the-top-everything worl...
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Defining New Yorker Humor (Studies in Popular Culture)

By: Judith Yaross Lee

Price: $6.98

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi: February 2000

Seller ID: 89291

ISBN: 1578061989

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"The early history of New York is obscured in myth," observed the pseudonymous author of "The Story of Manhattankind" in the first issue of The New Yorker (21 February 1925), "and to separate the purely historical from the purely hysterical is no easy task."
The same must be said of the magazine itself. The purely historical remained hidden until The New Yorker's archives were opened to scholars in the mid-nineties, although the hysterical--pure and otherwise--dominates the anecdotes in memoirs of some of the magazine's original staff members.
Late in 1924 Harold Ross as...
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Digesting the Child Within: And Other Cartoons to Live by

By: John Callahan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Quill: October 1991

Seller ID: 267094

ISBN: 0688094880

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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