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Perelman, S. J. Westward Ha!, Or, Around the World in Eighty Cliches. New York: Perseus Books Group, 1984. ISBN: 9780306802294. 159pp, clean unmarked copy. Fine. Paperback. S.J. Perleman is one of the funniest American humorists of all time and had the largest vocabulary of arcane words of almost any writer. This absurd story of his travels with caricaturist Hirschfeld is a classic and still funny 63 years later. (#257) $4.75

Perelman, S.J.  Baby, It’s Cold Inside. Penguin Group USA, 1987. ISBN: 9780140080421. 251pp, pictorial wraps, as new condition. As New. Paperback. Perelman had the largest, most literate vocabulary of any humorist and the dryest humor. Self-deprecating and boastful of his attractiveness to women, his writing is absurdly funny. (#273) $4.00

Perelman, S.J. The Ill Tempered Clavichord. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First printing. 244pp, Mauve paper boards, grey cloth spine, in black and tan and pink dustwrapper. Dj has mylar cover, price-clipped, some wear and chipping at spine ends and edges of front and back covers. Fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. Articles from the New Yorker, more hilarity from Perelman, who is unrivaled in his use of the more obscure words of the English language. (#276) $47.00

Perelman, S.J. Listen to the Mockingbird. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949. First edition. 153pp, light tan cloth with line are on cover, black lettering on spine with line art, decorative endpapers with Hirschfeld drawings of Perelman. Very light wear to spine ends, very light bumping to corners. DJ has mylar cover, is chipped on upper edge, small chip missing on upper spine, war to back upper edge, soiling on back, not price-clipped. Fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. 20 essays by Perelman from the New Yorker, including his movie reminiscences, Cloudland Revisited. (#277) $14.75

Perelman, S.J. Crazy Like A Fox. Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1945. Reprint. 269pp, light brown cloth with line art on cover, brwon lettering on spine. spine edges show some wear, one unopened page, no DJ. Very Good +. Hardcover. More humor from Perelman from 15 years of writing (#278) $6.00

Perelman, S.J. The Dream Department. New York: Random House, 1943. Second printing. 209pp, gray-blue cloth with yellow stamped line art on cover/yellow lettering on spine. Spine very lightly sunned, very slight bumpin on corners, otherwise a near-new copy. No DJ. Bookstamp from State Book Shop San Jose on inside back cover. Near Fine. A beautifully preserved copy of this very beautifully designed book of more Perelman. Dedicated to Nathaniel West, Perelman’s brother-in-law. Surreal line art on cover. (#279) $21.00

Perelman, S.J. Keep It Crisp. New York: Random House, 1946. First printing. 259pp, gray cloth with line art, black and red letters on spine. Extremely well-preserved book with a light finger-smudge on ffep. DJ price-clipped, mylar cover, missing front lower corner, wear on upper corner, , top and bottom spine but complete. Fine in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. 25 essays by Perelman in a very clean copy of this beautiful edition. (#280) $60.00

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Allen, Woody. Getting Even. New York: Warner, 1976. Later printing. 110pp, 11th printing. Near Fine. Paperback. clean unmarked tight copy of Woody Allen’s first collection of pieces from The New yorker plus several other published works and several written for this book. (#275) $3.50

Benchley, Robert. Inside Benchley. New York: Harper Bros., 1942. First edition. 316pp, cream cloth with black line art on cover, black lettering on spine. No dj. Spine and back lightly stained. Line art by Gluyas Williams. Very Good. Hardcover. Very funny pieces by Benchley, including the hilarious “biography” of imaginary poet William Bodney (“Biography by Inches”) (#484) $18.00

Feiffer, Jules. Sick, Sick, Sick: A Guide to Non-Confident Living. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958. First printing. unnumbered pages, pictorial wraps, previous owners signature whited out on ffep, spine edge frayed and repaired with archival document tape, missing section of lower left corner on back cover, circular stain on inside back cover. Good. Paperback. Feiffer’s first book, great window into late ’50s American social culture, with beatniks, swingers, poets, the bourgeouis…hilarious and edgy. (#485) $7.00

Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival. New York: Harper Collins, 1997. ISBN: 9780060904456. 369 pp. 29th printing. As New. Paperback.
The classic collection of Thurber humor. List price $13.50 (#496) $4.50