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By a Nose - The Off-Center Life of Football's Funniest LinemanSmerlas, Fred; Carucci, Vic

By a Nose - The Off-Center Life of Football's Funniest Lineman


Smerlas, Fred; Carucci, Vic

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white photos. 256 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and light fading to dust jacket.

Record # 67868


Price: $12.00 

 

Chicago Days/Hoboken Nights


Pinkwater, Daniel

Hardcover. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30797


Price: $13.00 

 

From Dublin to Chicago - American Impressions


Birmingham, G.A.

Hardcover. NY, G.H. Doran, rep., 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages, green cloth with gilt lettering. A famous Irish humorist's observations in the American mid-west. Excellent condition. Donation stamp on front paste-down.

Record # 58879


Price: $20.00 

 

Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him


Henry, David

Hardcover. US, Algonquin Books, 3rd printing, 2013-11-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464667


Price: $13.00 

Great Fur Opera, The: Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1970,Dobbs, Kildare, Illust. by: Ronald Searle

Great Fur Opera, The: Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1970,


Dobbs, Kildare, Illust. by: Ronald Searle

Hardcover. Brattleboro, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 124 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with heavy chipping and fraying to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout by Ronald Searle.

Record # 469827


Price: $15.00 

 

Happy Yesterdays


Jarvis, Major C. S.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, Rep., 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Humorous memoirs of a British military officer. Illust. by Roly. 2 small brown spots to cover otherwise VG

Record # 65747


Price: $8.00 

 

Horace Ward Bailey - Vermonter - A Memorial by His Friends


Fish (Editor), Frank L.

Hardcover. Rutland, Tuttle, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather spine and corners with marbled paper over boards. Special deluxe edition of 125 copies - this being number 21. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover edges, minor loss of leather at top of spine. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614201


Price: $23.00 

 

House of Many Rooms, A


Hunter, Rodello

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A humorous memoir of a Mormon family at the turn of the century in a small Utah town. 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with bumped corners. Chipping and edgewear to brodart-covered dust jacket. Decorative stain on top edge.

Record # 51507


Price: $18.00 

 

Jimmy O'Dea: The pride of the Coombe


Ryan, Philip B

Hardcover. Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland, Poolbeg, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Photographs in b&w. Light wear, scratches and a small closed tear to dust jacket, else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 457237


Price: $20.00 

Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert BenchleyAltman, Billy

Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley


Altman, Billy

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages, b&w illustrations and photographs. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451277


Price: $12.00 

 

Life and Times of Kin Hubbard, Creator of Abe Martin


Kelly, Fred C.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus and Young, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 179 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear, rubbing to pictorial dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front paste down. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 810140


Price: $12.00 

Lusty Life of Loon Lake Lloyd, The: WWII Marine, Logger and Resort OwnerKeeland, Lloyd, Illust. by: Ellen Keeland

Lusty Life of Loon Lake Lloyd, The: WWII Marine, Logger and Resort Owner


Keeland, Lloyd, Illust. by: Ellen Keeland

softcover. US, Binford & Mort Publishing, 2nd, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382 page. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BOTH LLOYD AND ELLEN. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Record # 470449


Price: $19.00 

 

Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years


Shelden, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 484 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some black and white pictures. Light wear to edges. Rippling to top dust jacket on front. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233630


Price: $19.00 

Moose That Roared - The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose, TheScott, Keith

Moose That Roared - The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose, The


Scott, Keith

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Dunne Book/St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs, illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 614130


Price: $38.00 

 

Not As a Crocodile


Marx, Arthur, Illust. by: Gil Walker

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover. Black & white drawings by Gil Walker. Dust jacket with light soil. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 502278


Price: $9.00 

Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest CartoonistMaslin, Michael

Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist


Maslin, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471735


Price: $19.00 

 

Queen of Sheba, The - Her Life and Times


Crutch, Phinneas A., Illust. by: John Held

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 191 pages + ads. Not a true biography but a satire (possibly by George S. Chappell using a pseudonym). Illustrated with black & white photos, decorative line drawings by John Held. Dust jacket with large chunks gone from top and bottom of spine. Browning on front cover of bas-relief. Foxing to edges, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 501043


Price: $15.00 

Rickles' Book: A MemoirRickles, Don

Rickles' Book: A Memoir


Rickles, Don

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470468


Price: $15.00 

 

Take the Connoli: Stories from the New World (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Vowell, Sarah

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Hardcover. AUTHOR SIGNED BOOKPLATE on front flyleaf. Gray cover boards, red gilt title stamped on spine. Boards excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning to edges, otherwise very good. Top edge has just a little foxing. Binding tight, clean and bright inside, spine straight. In great shape. A moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene..

Record # 31680


Price: $19.00 

The Man Who Could Grow Hair or Inside AndorraAttwood, William

The Man Who Could Grow Hair or Inside Andorra


Attwood, William

Hardcover. Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, protected by brodart sleeve. Wear to bottom edges of cover.

Record # 2230681


Price: $23.00 

Uncivil LibertiesTrillin, Calvin

Uncivil Liberties


Trillin, Calvin

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Light wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 63979


Price: $15.00 

 

Winsor McCay - His Life and Art


Canemaker, John

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Book still in original shrink wrap.

Record # 609939


Price: $40.00 

 

Woody Allen: New Yorker


McCann, Graham

Hardcover . Cambridge, Polity Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469357


Price: $13.00 

 

Yankee Storekeeper


Gould, R. E.

New York, McGraw-Hill/Whittlesey House, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Good, Previous owner's notation on half-title page. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 301153


Price: $15.00 

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