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Olde Charlie Farquharson's Testament from Jennysez to Jobe and After Words

By: "(Harron, Don - ""as tolled to"")"

Price: $17.95

Publisher: "Toronto, ONT", Gage Publishing: 1978

Seller ID: 01H020

ISBN: 0771599013

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE/ No DJ

"As new except for slight rubbing to exterior corners. Padded red leather with gilt design, lettering, and page edges and attached ribbon bookmark. ""At the start there wasn't a thing. That'd be your Void. Dark too. Absoloot kayoss. S God decided to do sometging about it..."" 159+ illustrated (Dore illustrations) pages, 9-1/4x5-7/8"" (23.5x14.6cm)."
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500 Great Irish Jokes

By: "Allen, Jay"

Price: $8.96

Publisher: NY, Signet: 1991

Seller ID: 64P029

ISBN: 0451168968

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

As new except for faint edgewear and light creasing of spine. 500 Irish jokes.
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Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)

By: "Barry, Dave"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Berkley Trade:

Seller ID: 9780425221655

ISBN: 0425221652

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

A brilliantly funny look at the tumultuous recent past from the Pulitzer Prize?winning humorist.

Remember when everything was going to go to hell when Y2K struck?

That didn't happen. Right?

But what did happen? To provide a little perspective on a really messed-up millennium (so far), the one and only Dave Barry slips into his historian's robe (it's plush terrycloth) and revisits the defining moments in our country's recent history?from the Bush years to?jeez, it's still the Bush years As an added bonus, Barry quickly?we?re busy here?tosses in the complete history of the...
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Ayn Rand for Beginners

By: "Bernstein, Andrew (Owen Brozman, Illus.)"

Price: $12.95

Publisher: "Hanover, NH", Seaforth Press: 2009

Seller ID: 16H014

ISBN: 1934389374

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! ""clear, down-to-earth language…explains Rand to a new generation of readers in a manner that is entertaining, and easy to read and comprehend…"" ""A For Beginners Documentary Comic Book"" "
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Looking Blackward

By: "Black, Arthur"

Price: $11.95

Publisher: "Madeira Park, BC", Harbour Publishing: 2012

Seller ID: 4-NH002

ISBN: 1550175904

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new with faint shelfwear to cover edges. ""Black turns his critical eye and warped funny bone to the world beyond Salt Spring Island, lambasting bad tattoos, our anachronistic fetish for suits and ties, the craze for blood sports…"" and more."
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Long Time Leaving - Dispatches From Up South

By: "Blunt, Roy Jr. "

Price: $21.95

Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 2006

Seller ID: 5-7H003

ISBN: 0307266184

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: FINE

"As new except for 1/4"" rip at top hinge of front flap of dust jacket. ""A sly, dry collection of essays…on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide, North vs. South"
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Motherhood the Second Oldest Profession

By: "Bombeck, Erma"

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell:

Seller ID: 9780440159001

ISBN: 0440159008

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared"

By: "Browne, Jill Conner"

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Three Rivers Press:

Seller ID: 9780609804131

ISBN: 0609804138

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, their royal ringleader, Jill Conner Browne, introduces the Queens to the world with this sly, hilarious manifesto about love, life, men, and the importance of being prepared. Chapters include:
The True Magic Words Guaranteed to Get Any Man to Do Your Bidding
The Five Men You ...
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Washington is Leaking

By: "Buchwald, Art"

Price: $7.16

Seller ID: 59P039

ISBN: 0449232948

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"""The leaks are everywhere and Buchwald's power of laughter turns them into a fountain of hilarity in the sparkling new collection. From the pathos of ""New York Must be Punished"" to the madcap vision of ""No Frills on the Airlines"" Buchwald's wit has never shone brighter."" Tight, bright, clean & square. Faint edgewear."
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I Never Danced at the White House

By: "Buchwald, Art "

Price: $6.08

Publisher: "Greenwich, CT", Fawcett Crest( #P2297): 1973

Seller ID: 48P087

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Syndicated(over 500 newspapers) newspaper columnist only sees the funny side of Washington!. Bright and square. Light soil. Crease on spine. 1/4"" tear on edge of back cover."
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When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

By: "Carlin, George"

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Hyperion:

Seller ID: 9781401308216

ISBN: 140130821X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller that takes readers on a riotous journey through the mind of one of America's premier comics

George Carlin's legendary irreverence and iconoclasm are on full display in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? as he vainly scours the American landscape for signs of intelligence in his third national bestseller. Ranging from his absurdist side (Message from a Cockroach; TV News: The Death of Humpty Dumpty; Tips for Serial Killers) to his unerring ear for American speech (Politician Talk; Societal Clichs; Euphemisms: 13 sect...
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How to Rule the World: A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator

By: "de Guillaume, AndrÃ©"

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Chicago Review Press:

Seller ID: 9781556525872

ISBN: 1556525877

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Everyone wants to rule the world, but only a precious few have the skills to create an ironclad plan of attack. Simple, direct, and delightfully unprincipled, this guide contains tales of global power mongering from every age and endeavors to show dilettante dictators and tyrants-to-be just how it's done. Tips are provided on creating a personal flag, what type of puppet government to establish, how to squelch free speech, and, most important, how to handle enemies. Also included are humorous full-color illustrations, sidebars on admirable despots, and self-quizzes that allow readers to see if...
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Planetary - All Over the World and Other Stories

By: "Ellis, Warren (John Cassaday, illus.)"

Price: $34.95

Publisher: "LaJolla, CA", Wildstorm / DC Comics: 2000

Seller ID: 2DY003

ISBN: 1563896486

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: FINE / Fine dj

"As new - gift quality! ""graphic novel features the adventures of Elijah Snow, a hundred year old man…"" ""Originally published in single magazine form as PLANETARY #1-6 and PLANETARY Preview."""
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flag a porpoise going south (a travel comedy)

By: "Fargo, Dorothy (Tonya Carpenter, illus."

Price: $7.95

Publisher: "Felton, CA", Glenwood Publishers: 1973

Seller ID: 37P002

ISBN: 0911760156

Binding: Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for faintest age tanning to cover and almost invisible hinge crease. The ""six round numbers"", friends since grammar school, take off for a trip around South America, our nearest neighbors and an area discovered when we were, settled by the same people who settled here, abut the same size and climate, with similar settlement history, so why are we wary of one another?"
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It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

By: "Fulghum, Robert"

Price: $1.50

Seller ID: 9780804105828

ISBN: 0804105820

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

From the author to the reader:

Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher.

As a kid, I put more into getting ready for my turn to present than I put into the rest of my homework. Show-and-Tell was real in a way that much of what I learned in school was not. It was education that came out of my life experience.

As a teacher, I was always surprised by what I learned from these amateur hours. A kid I was sure I knew well would reach down into a paper bag he carried and fish out some odd-shaped treasure and attach meaning to...
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All I really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten

By: "Fulghum, Robert"

Price: $1.50

Seller ID: 9780804105262

ISBN: 080410526X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Cap'n Fatso

By: "Gallery, Daniel V. (Rear Admiral U.S.N.-Ret)"

Price: $54.95

Publisher: NY, Paperback Library (#64-393): 1970

Seller ID: 23P004

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"Signed, hand-written letter from Admiral Gallery, on his stationery to the former owner, dated November 19, 1970 is included. Tight, bright, slight age yellowing of pages, clean interior, age soil to spine, tilted spine. First paperback printing with the same cover art as the dust jacket of the original hardbound. ""the imperturbable malice Admiral Gallery uses to spoof everything from the way the Navy is run to the poverty program is and exercise in risible ingenuity..sugar-coatings over a hard core of fact.."""
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English Comedies

By: "Gassner, John (Ed.)"

Price: $9.95

Publisher: "Eau Claire, WI", E. M. Hale and Company: (Undated)

Seller ID: 80T024

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Tight, yellowed pages, faded and rubbed spine, clean, square. Softened spine ends. 360 pages (8 x5.5""). Navy cloth with blind stamp. Anthology: William Makepeace Thackeray on Restoration Comedy; The Country Wife (Wycherley); The Way of the World (Congreve); The Beggar's Opera (Gay); The Rivals (Sheridan); The School for Scandal (Sheridan); Songs, Verses, Prologues and Epilogues."
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Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump

By: "Groom, Winston"

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Pocket:

Seller ID: 9780671517632

ISBN: 0671517635

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

By: "Handler, Chelsea"

Price: $7.45

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA:

Seller ID: 9781582346182

ISBN: 1582346186

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.
You've either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a socia...
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