Search Results: HUMOR / General from Tangible Tales

1001 Best Ways, 2011. Paperback. Good. Trade paperback collection from the 1001 Best Ways crowd-sourced web blog. Good only condition with bending at the corners and a crease across the rear bottom corner through pages and covers. General crinkling and wear - a well used book, but the binding is solid and without splits, all pages are clean and unmarked. these are the worst ways to do about a thousand different things. A collection of people's embarrassing stories and bad advice from across the internet. 175 pp.

New York: Hyperion, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. Signed without inscription by Eoin Colfer (of Artemis Fowl fame) on the title page. A good plus copy with bending at the spine ends and hard bump to the upper front corner. Interior is much better - clean, unmarked, and tight as if unread. Very good dustjacket has an "Autographed" sticker affixed to the front panel, otherwise just minor wear at the edges and folds. 275 pp., Colfer's addition to the Hitchhiker Trilogy.

New York: Harmony Books, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Signed by both authors on the title page. Hardcover 1st edition in dustjacekt with an "Autographed Copy" sticker affixed to the lower front panel. A very good copy - clean and tight as if unread. Appears to be bound upside down as the cowboy boot illustrations on the covers and the binding lettering run from the bottom The dustjacket is also very good, bright and attractive with minimal wear at the panel edges. Unpaginated, around 140 pages. Filled with illustrations - a cute, cowgirl centric, best friend gift sort of book.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. Signed and inscribed on the front free-endpaper, "To Carolanne - your pal, Dr. Science." In parenthesis, Dan Coffey signed & Luna Park 7/30/95 in a different hand. Previous owner (Carolanne) has stamped both the front endpapers. Hardcover 1st edition in dustjacket. A good coy but with a hard bump to the bottom of the rear board, a pin-prick to the rear hinge (barely noticeable), and some sunning to the top edge of the boards. Interior is much better, clean and solid. Unclipped dustjacket is very good with a matching pin-hole to the rear panel, and minor scuffing to the bright covers. 207 pp., more of Dr. Science's hilarious "experiments." Nicely signed by a radio legend.

New York: Villard, 2008. First edition. Hardback. Good/very good. Green hardcover, 1st edition in dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Cecilia - you gave your kid my book? Did you get her drunk the first time too? Laurie Notaro." Bumping to the corners and spine ends. Text clean and unmarked. Binding solid but lacking tightness. Unclipped dustjacket is very good with minor edge wear and crease to the top of the rear flap. 218 pp.

New York: Hyperion, 2006. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardcover 3rd printing in dustjacket. Signed and inscribed across the entire 1/2 title page, "To Trish, All my best! Brian Copeland." A very good copy with light bending at the spine tips and a minor down-ward slant. Clean, tight and unmarked - seemingly unread. Unclipped jacket is also very good with light soiling to the panels and matching bending at the spine tips - bright! 250 pp., stand up comedian Brian Copeland tells his story of living in suburbia as "not a genuine" black man.

Drawn And Quarterly, 2015. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Inscribed and signed "For Alex!!" with an original drawing by the author on the half title page. A good copy with bumping to the corners and spine ends, and a bit of scuffing to the covers. Interior is clean, unmarked other than the author's inscription. Binding and hinges are solid. 168 pp., indexed, a series of comics and cartoons from the "Hark! A Vagrant" series that has drawn international acclaim.

Wyoming: Wapiti Valley Publishing Company, 1996. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Boots Reynolds. Signed and inscribed by the author boldly on the front endpaper, "To Rick - May all your hunts have happy endings. Jim Zumbo 1/18/97." Leatherette with gilt titles, 5th printing, in dustjacket. A near fine copy - clean, square, and tight. The dustjacket is very good, bright and crisp, but with a chip to the head of the spine panel and a small square of residue from the removal of a bookstore sticker at the top of the front panel. 183 pp., black and white photos and illustrations of elk-hunting, in Zumbo's humorous style.

Montana: Published by the author, 2000. Paperback. Good. Jim Edwards. Small softcover, signed by the author on the title page without inscription, and the number 60 in the top left corner in the same hand. A good coyp but with some bending at the corners and light scuffing to the covers. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. 76 pp., some black and white family photos, and illustrations by Jim Edwards. A combination of cowboy poetry and family memoir.