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New York: HarperCollins. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket protected with a removable Brodart cover. White boards embossed with Erma Bombeck's signature in silver and red spine imprinted in silver with the title and author's name. Red end papers. Stated First Edition with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 207 pages. Here Erma Bombeck proves that a behavorist need not wear a safari jacket and live in a tent in order to be an expert on every facet of a species' behavior. From the aerobics classroom to our migratory patterns, Erma demonstrates that while animals may have more fun, longer tails, and better sex lives, the gap that separates us from the animal kingdom is closing .. fast. .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line. . 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.7 Inches. 304 pages. For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee -- the Bottom Dollar Girls -- logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it's family time. So when news gets out that the Super Saver Dollar Store chain plans to set up shop and run the Bottom Dollar out of town, things go catawampus. Manager Elizabeth, who has a good head for business even though she flunked pin-curling in beauty school, teams up with a crew of dedicated do-gooders bent on saving the Bottom Dollar from the fate of spare change. But when Elizabeth's unlikely new love interest -- who also happens to be Cayboo Creek's wealthiest bachelor -- pitches woo, out come some startling revelations about her past that turn life more than a little interesting for all her friends and neighbors. .

Bryan, TX: Shoal Creek Publishers. Very Good. 1982. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name on half-title. Spine creasing . 194 pages. 194 pages - "Cactus Pryor has given his native Austin a rare gift that few cities anywhere can claim - a real live humorist with the sharp eye, the quick tongue, the educated pen, the warm heart to record in sometimes hilarious detail its fashion and foibles..." .

Harmonsworth, Middlesex, ENG: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 1957. Mass Market Paperback. 235 pages. From the moment that Jeeves walks through Bertie Wooster''s door, Bertie gives up running his own affairs and lets Jeeves take charge. Whether it''s the color of a tie, the style of a hat or a coat, Jeeves is always right. He is there to depend on in times of trouble, and such times are frequent in the lives of Bertie and his friends. Whether it''s Corky''s artistic career that needs boosting or Bingo Little''s gloom that needs lifting, Jeeves can always be relied upon. .

New York: Vintage Books. Fine. 1975. Mass Market Paperback. 222 pages. P.G.Wodehouse's best-loved creation by far is the master-servant team of Bertie Wooster, the likable nitwit, and Jeeves, his effortlessly superior valet and protector. This unlikely duo is as famous as Holmes and Watson, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and Tracy and Hepburn, but they have their own very special inimitable charm .

New York: Bantam Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.4 Inches. 224 pages. In a books that is at once laugh-out-loud funny and all-too-true to life, comedy-talent-turned-television-star Ray Romano goes home again, revealing that the source of his inspiration is heritage, hearth and family. As did his stand-up comedy and his present, top-rated CBS-TV program, Romano draws on his real-life experience as a husband, a father, a father of twins, a son with parents living very very close, and a brother, to make readers laugh and laugh harder. .

New York: Mcgraw-Hill. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Blue boards and spine with spine imprinted in gold with author and title. Full number line. Clean, tight book. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 199 pages. With love, perception, and irreverence, Erma presents an American family -- challenged in a way no one would ever have thought possible to survive. .

Plano, TX: Republic of Texas. Fine. 1998. Trade Paperback. 256 pages. Delightfully witty, this book takes readers through the gamut of facts about Texans, how to understand the conversations, why and how Texans dress the way they do, why pickup trucks are a way of life, and how they, too, can acquire big hair. Illustrated with clever cartoons. .

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. Near Fine. 1988. Trade Paperback. 147 pages. Novelist Tony Hillerman weaves together some classic stories of contemporary New Mexican life in a collection that makes you laugh, shake your head, and eventually understand more about New Mexico and its people. .

New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004.. First Edition. Hardcover. Orange boards with title in black and white and small drawing from book and spine printed with title in black and white and author in black. Purple endpapers, Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 128 pages .

New York: Penguin Books. Fine. 1953. Mass Market Paperback. 224 pages. The 11 stories prepared in this collection are the original stories which were all first published between 1918 and 1922 in the magazines Strand and Cosmopolitan, now in the public domain. They were then revised and re-published together as 18 stories in 1923 but these are the original magazine versions. The Inimitable Jeeves was the second collection of Jeeves stories, after My Man Jeeves (1919); the next collection would be Carry on, Jeeves in 1925. All of the stories in The Inimitable Jeeves are connected and most of them involve Bertie''s friend Bingo Little, who is always falling in love. It''s Wodehouse at his best. .

New York: St. Martin's Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards and spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 243 pages .

Edinburgh, SCT: Black & White Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 192 pages. Jim Hewitson's Scotland is a strange place. And this broth of off-cuts from the past, contemporary attitudes, outlandish lists, absurd tables, historical and hysterical trivia and off-the-wall observations is certainly one of the most curious Scottish books of the new millennium. In it, facts and figures collide with couthy anecdotes and unlikely yarns, all of which are shot through with that mystical ingredient which Jim has been trying to drag to the surface for thirty years: Scottishness .

London, ENG: Arrow Books. Very Good. 2008. Trade Paperback. 286 pages. Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens—and their identities are swapped. Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star—including kidnapping. .

New York: Vintage Books. Fine. (1924) 1952. 2nd Vintage Edition. Trade Paperback. 328 pages. A debononair young Englishman, Psmith (" the p is silent, as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan" ) has quit the fish business, " even though there is money in fish, " and decided to support himself by doing anything that he is hired to do by anyone. Wandering in and out of romantic, suspenseful, and invariably hilarious situations, Psmith is in the great Wodehouse tradition .

New York: Little, Brown and Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Tan boards and spine with title and author imprinted in gold on spine. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 275 pages .

Bloomberg Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 100 pages. New Yorker Book of Cartoons .

New York: Hyperion. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream boards and cream cloth spine imprinted with title and author in gold. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 0.7 x 8.6 x 5.6 Inches. 112 pages. From a re-imagining of the Schroedinger's Cat conundrum to a skit entitled "I Love Loosely", in which Lucy and Ricky Ricardo play the parts of Hillary and President Clinton, this collection by comic genius Steve Martin--some pieces of which have appeared in "The New Yorker"--is both hilariously funny and intelligent in its skewering of the topic at hand. Teleprint conference. .

New York: Reganbooks. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed sticker. $24.95 original publisher's price on inside front flap of dust jacket. Black boards and spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Signed by the author on the title page. . . 277 pages. Signed by Author .

Penguin Books. Near Fine. 1972. Trade Paperback. Mild spine crease. 282 pages .