Crabtree's Collection Old Books

My Mind Went All to Pieces.

Mines, Robert, · 1958

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Dial, 1958. VG. Funniest things patients have said to their psychiatrists.

This Little Pig Stayed Home.

Ethridge, Willie Snow, · 1944

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Vanguard, (1944). 3rd ptg. VG. A woman & her 4 children cope humorously with life at home during WWII. Owner name fep, old book store label fep. Spine faded, corners bumped, damp mark top ft cover.

In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack rant & rave.

Magliozzi, Tom and Ray, · 2000

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Perigee, (2000). 1st ed 3rd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Tirades, eruptions & outbursts from the Car Talk guys, NPR's most popular non-news show. FT DJ flap creased.

Superstars of Comedy.

Various, · 0

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New Rochelle, NY, Great American Audio Corp, nd. VG tape in plastic box. 60 minute tape of origiinal, unedited broadcasts from Radio's Golden Age including best remembered radio Christmas show.

73 Years in a Sand Trap.

Beck, Fred & O. K. Barnes, · 1949

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, A. A. Wyn, Inc., 1949. 9th ptg. VG.

Heavy Weather.

Wodehouse, P.G., · 1938

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Triangle, (1938). Reprint. G. Blue binding with maroon lettering. Browning on binding & endpapers, top ft corner bumped, dampstain bottom of back cover.

A Haircut in Horse Town and other great car talk puzzlers.

Magliozzi, Tom & Ray aka Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers, · 1998

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Kirkland, WA, Becker & Mayer, (1998). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. 41 all time favorites from Car Talk.

Portrait of a Fitness Fanatic.

Oman, Mark, · 1985

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

Chicago, Contemporary, (1985). VG lg sz PB.

Wit and Wisdom from the Peanut Butter Gang.

Brown, H. Jackson Jr., compiled & edited by, · 1994

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Nashville, TN, Rutledge Hill Press, (1994). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. "The older you get, the harder your parents try to keep you little." "When you complain about doing the dishes, you usually. get stuck doing them more often." "You can't catch a hard baseball in your mouth." "Yo...

"I'm Afraid of the Vampire State Building: wit & wisdom from the two-to-seven set.

Wollman, Patti Greenberg & Merril Feinstein-Feit, · 1997

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Golden, (1997). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. When kids say what's on their minds, the results are often hilarious.

The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer.

Patchen, Kenneth, · 1945

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, New Directions, (1945). 3rd ptg. G PB. A classic of American humor & satire feature Alfred Budd of Bivalve NJ who holds up a distorting mirror to our civilization. Age toned binding, mark where price sticker removed, owner writing on cover.

Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Sedaris, David, · 2000

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Back Bay/Little Brown, (2000). 14th ptg. VG PB. Sedaris's time in Paris, painfully funny fish-out-of-water tales about difficulty of learning the language and the near. impossibility of translating the culture.

Bumper Sticker Wisdom: America's pulpit above the tailpipe.

Gardner, Carol W., · 1995

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Hillsboro, OR, Beyond Words, (1995). VG lg sz PB. Gardner took to the road for two years collecting the most hilarious & intriguing bumper stickers in America. Ft hinge. cracked.

Uncle Josh's Punkin Center Stories: the talking machine stories.

Stewart, Cal, · 1905

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Chicago, Stanton & Van Vilet Co, (1905). G. Edge wear.

A Treasury of Laughter consisting of humorous stories, poems, essays, tall tales, jokes, boners, epigrams, quips & crushers.

Untermeyer, Louis, selected & edited with an introduction by, · 1946

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1946). G. Blue binding worn & edge wear.

A Parody Outline of History wherein may be found a curiously irreverent treatment of American historical events....

Stewart, Donald Ogden, · 1921

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Doran, 1921. G. Blue binding mottled, yellow paper titles, spine sunned & paper title worn at edges.

God on the Gymnasium Floor and Other Theatrical Adventures.

Kerr, Walter, · 1971

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1971). 1st ptg. VG. A drama critic writes about curiosities of the theater. Remainder dot bottom of book.

"Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother".

Wyse, Lois, · 1989

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Crown, (1989). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Owner inscription.

A Southern Belle Primer or why Princess Margaret will never be a Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Schwartz, Maryln, · 1991

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Doubleday, (1991). 8th ptg. VG PB.

Critters: adventures in wildest suburbia.

Whipple, A. B. C., · 1994

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, St. Martins, (1994). 1st ed 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Squirrels in the bird feeder, raccoons in the garbage, Canadian geese on the lawn, rabbits in the garden, deer in the orchard &. a skunk that decided to winter in the basement.