Search Results: Humor from Orpheus Books

New York: Crown Archetype, 2018. Signed on a blank page following the endpaper by Eric Idle. First U.S. edition / First printing. Pale gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Creator of the Rutles. Creator of Spamalot. Comedy legend Eric Idle looks back on a career of looniness.

New York: Crown Publishing, 2020. Signed by John Cleese. First U.S. edition / First printing. White paper spine, white paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket. From the comedy legend John Cleese. Founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus and creator and star of Fawlty Towers.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1971. First edition / First printing. White cloth with pink flowers on the cover. Fine with previous owner label in near fine dust jacket. Basis for the cult Hal Ashby film, starring Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort. Romance between a 79 year old free spirit and a young man with a fetish for death.

New York: Crown Archetype, 2014. Signed by John Cleese. First U.S. edition / First printing. White paper spine, white paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. A memoir from the comedy legend John Cleese. Founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus and creator and star of Fawlty Towers.

New York: Harper & Row, 1962, Early printing. Priority uncertain. Code L-M on CIP page. Black cloth. Fine in a very near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Fresh copy. Posthumous work from Mark Twain. Dark humor on life, religion, sin and death written after the deaths of his wife and a daughter. Originally slated for publication in 1939, the book was delayed by the objections of his daughter Clara. She relented in 1962. Stinging satire by a master.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Signed and dated on the title page by Michael Palin, additionally inscribed: The Ivies - with best wishes Michael Palin 4/29/00 First edition / First printing. Blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket. The Monty Python Alum follows Ernest Hemingway around the world.

New York: Harper & Row, 1986. Signed by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner on the half-title page. Additionally inscribed at the top of the page by Tomlin: To Dianne! And inscribed by Wagner above her signature: love / soup / Art. First trade edition / First printing. Green cloth, Fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

New York: Bantam Books, 1990. Signed on the half-title page by Tom Robbins. Additionally inscribed: To Kevin. First edition / First printing. Purple cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.