Search Results: Humor from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

London: Michael O'Mara Books. 2007 reprint. 224pp. paperback: Fine [hint of age browning; else a nice crisp copy] A British comedy writer’s comic letter to numerous airlines and their replies (if any) a la Don Novello’s "Laszlo Toth."

Charleston: Wyrick & Co.,  1987 reprint. 117pp. illus. paperback 8vo: near Fine [light foxing to edges; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A humorous book containing almost 1,000 examples of "anguished English."

New York: Knopf, 1998 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 289pp. hardback sm 4to: Very Good/no dj [residential institution reading library stamp ffep; top corners are very lightly bumped; else VG] The quondam Georgia humorist’s 13th book, "a wild tell-all, a raucous, unflinching memoir as funny as anything he’s ever written," according to The New York Times. The Boston Globe reviewer said: "If Sophocles had married Dorothy Parker, I’m not certain what their child might have looked like, but he should have sounded something like Roy Blount, Jr."

New York: Knopf, 1998 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 289pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. The quondam Georgia humorist's 13th book, "a wild tell-all, a raucous, unflinching memoir as funny as anything he's ever written," according to The New York Times. The Boston Globe reviewer said: "If Sophocles had married Dorothy Parker, I'm not certain what their child might have looked like, but he should have sounded something like Roy Blount, Jr."

New York: Harper & Bros., 1943 1st ed. 304pp. illus. green cloth 8vo: good reading copy/no dj [corner bumps; cover is age darkened; ffep has been neatly removed; else a complete & tight copy] A late Benchley (1889-1945) title.

Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 1991 reprint. 179pp. illus. paperback 8vo: near Fine. A humorous guide for book lovers.

Adelaide: Rigby Ltd., 1978 reprint. 396pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some age darkening to top edge; touch of light shelf rubbing along bottom edges; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] The essence of Australian folk humor brought together in three of Wannan's best-loved books: "Tales from Back o'Bourke," "Bullockies, Beauts and Bandicoots" & "Hay, Hell and Booligal." Through yarns, tall tales, legends & ballads, meet great Australian characters: shearers, stockmen, whingers & publicans, swagmen & bush cooks, et al.

London: Ravette Books. 1993 reprint. 62pp. paperback: near Very Good [text is age browned; scuffed patch on front cover where a sticker was lifted; else nrVG] A useful guide to instant erudition.

Horsham, UK: Ravette Books, 1992. 62pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; scuffed patch back cover where a sticker was lifted; else a complete & tight copy] A humorous bluffer’s guide by a former Royal Air Force/British Airways pilot.

New York: Workman, 1992 1st ed. 87pp. paperback: Very Good [edges are foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The first President Bush in his own words edited by editors from The New Republic magazine.

Richmond: The Dietz Press. 1938 1st ed. 87pp. port. green cloth tall 8vo: Good+/no dj. W. H. Stuckey's name on pastedown and under a note on portrait page indicating that the author was a great great grandfather of his. Vintage North Carolina sketches by the Rev. Harden E. Taliaferro, D.D. (ca. 1818-75).

London: Cassell, 1999 1st ed. 307pp. paperback tall 8vo: Very Good [ink dot bottom edge; edges are age browned & foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] An entertaining and browsable collection of over 1,000 stories organized under 400 keyword headings and indexed, from Pia Zadora to Lord Uxbridge and much in between.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2010 reprint. INSCRIBED briefly and boldly on ffep by author. 244pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1934. 392pp. green cloth 8vo: ex lib. copy; a complete & tight reading copy only with minimal lib. markings.

New York: Dover, c1951 reprint. 288pp. illus. paperback: Very Good [light age browning; else VG] Includes all 546 original illustrations by the English artist and writer Lear (1812-88).

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006 1st ed. 199pp. illus. hardback 12mo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

London: D. C. Thompson & Co.,  2001. unpaginated illustrated hardback 4to in pictorial hardback boards: Fine/no dj. A now defunct British comic dating back to 1937.

London: D. C. Thompson & Co.,  1999. unpaginated illustrated hardback 4to in pictorial hardback boards: Fine/no dj. A now defunct British comic dating back to 1937.

New York: Crown. 1997 1st ed. SIGNED bookplate affixed to half-title p. 270pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

New York: Putnam's, 2007 1st ed. INSCRIBED on half-title p. by author. 208pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.