Search Results: Humour from The Mortuary Korps

RARE. Approx. 44 p. (unnumbered); ill. Ex-library (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg) with stamps and sticker, mild shelfwear/rubbing. The autobiographical adventures of the author, a travelling vegan chef, with such episodes as, "Shaving Cactus with a Steak Knife and an Absent Mind", "Uh Oh Mushroom Absinthe", "A Real Sexual Time on the Greyhound- the Worst Damn Bus Sex Story Ever", and "Shit Haven, Bank Robbers and the Angriest Milkshake Ever".

RARE. Approx. 60 p. (unnumbered). Ex-library (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg) with stamps and stickers and a number in pen to front cover. Covers show significant wear, including creases, tears, and rubbing, as well as significant dampstains which bleed into some pages without impact on the readability of the text. The staples are rusting. Comprised entirely of handwritten text in an aesthetically pleasing and amazingly regular all-caps, this issue of the punk zine Cometbus features 23 chapters. Cometbus zines had extremely limited print runs.

First edition, first printing. 216 p. Red-orange hardcover with 1/4 cloth binding and red lettering to spine. Book shows some edgewear/bumping (see photos) but is internally Fine. The dust jacket also has edgewear, including a small tear, but is otherwise Near Fine and housed in a removable protective sleeve. Please see photos.From the dust jacket: Susan Musgrave is one of Canada's foremost poets whose work has been described as mesmerizing, startling and brilliant. When her first novel, The Charcoal Burners, was published in 1980, critics compared it favourably to works of Margaret Atwood, Marian Engel and Leonard Cohen. THE DANCING CHICKEN represents yet another departure for this daring writer. It casts a satiric eye on the alliances and misalliances of small-town institutions and families, specifically the Holmes family. Cod Holmes, who considers himself unhappily married to Nora, is on the verge of falling in love with Ursula, who is slightly mad. He is also spectacularly unfaithful with nurse… Read More

[160] p. [unnumbered]; ill. (colour). Very, very mild shelfwear, otherwise Fine. Humorous, unaltered photographs of signs that have had the swear stickered over key words.

NOTE: Will require extra shipping charge due to size and weight of books (total approx. 28 x 21 x 19 cm, 12 lbs).From the rear: G. Schirmer paperback opera score editions are quality paperbacks designed to give you years of use. Each edition has smythe-sewn binding and quality cover and interior papers. The 10 editions being sold in this listing are: Hansel and Gretel: Opera in Three Acts Music by Engelbert Humperdinck Text by Adelheid Wette English translation by Constance Bache Revised by Hamilton BenzEd. 1267G. Schirmer, New York/London (1969)179 p. Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): An Opera in Four Acts Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte Music by W. A. Mozart Vocal Score Including the Secco Recitatives English version by Ruth and Thomas Martin With an essay on the story of the opera by Nathan Broder Ed. 2021 G. Schirmer, New York/London (1947, 1948, 1951) xii, 481 p. La Bohème: An Opera in Four Actsbased on "La Vie de Bohème" by Henry Murger Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica… Read More

RARE. 27 p.; ill. Ex-library (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg) with stamp, sticker, and number in pen to covers. Very mild shelfwear with extremely light soiling to covers, and staples beginning to rust, but remains internally Fine. An artistic zine consisting largely of comics and reviews. Its stand-out features include a very professional-looking comic by Dr. Anderson, titled "One Day at the Mortuary", and an illustrated article about the COBRA group (artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam).

RARE. Approx. 22 p. (unnumbered); ill. (colour covers). Ex-library (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg) with stickers. Mostly handwritten and hand-drawn, this humorous zine deals with work life, fantasies, social commentary, and a page on "pot crotch" and "The Taxonomy of Poo". There are also various comics throughout and some reviews.

82 p.; ill. Light dampstain and warping to rear, and small stain to foredge, but internally pages are clean and bright. From back: We're all aging. We can view this situation as fraught with danger and decline, or as full of promise and possibility, claims author Carol Ann Morrow. As you journey with her and the sprightly elves on these pages, you'll find wisdom to help you discover the meaning of your older years—lessons of strength, longevity, and fruitfulness. "You're only old once," says the esteemed Dr. Seuss. Make it count!

Presumably first edition. 152 p. Mild shelfwear, otherwise Fine.From the rear: "The rapidly unreeling dream (or nightmare) of each of these stories—stories of drifters, hookers, highway victims, corporate spies and con-men, dead-- beat dads and the heartbroken—comes at us from off-kilter angles that are wholly the author's own. His imagination is bold and unbreaking, his instinct for the aptest detail is sure-fire. Here is an unignorable debut." - Steven Heighton, author of the bestselling novel The Shadow Boxer "Rife with the blackest humour, quirky, unadorned, Oscar Martens' stories are full of characters on a collision course with each other and with the world. In the resulting aftermath, we gain this original new voice, this dark, edgy satirist of the human condition." - Nadine McInnis, author of the acclaimed Quicksilver Tapping into the voyeuristic human compulsion that attracts us to the dirty little secrets of people's lives, Oscar Martens' stories peel back layers of contemporary… Read More

RARE. xxxvi p.; ill. Ex-library (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg) with stamp, stickers, and writing to covers, significant wear, including tears, nicks, etc. and dampstains throughout, which do not impact readability of text. A very down-to-earth zine, entirely handwritten and hand-drawn, which consists largely of stories recounting experiences hitchhiking and freighthopping (including a glossary of relevant terms). It also contains a short piece by a (western-raised) Iraqi woman struggling with her identity when faced with an offer of friendship by an Iraqi woman from Iraq.

RARE. Second Printing. 46 p.; ill. Exhibits general wear as well as some light staining to covers/edges, with a price sticker to cover, and staples beginning to rust, but text remains clean and clear. Large illustrated zine with everything from adventurous stories, political views, comics, word search, humour, and reviews of records, 7-inch, and zines. See listing images for table of contents.

First Edition. 284 p. ; includes Bibliography and Index (p. 275-284). Blue-green hardcover with gilt lettering to cover and spine, has very minor shelfwear and some bumping to tip and heel of spine, in price-clipped dust jacket which exhibits some edgewear, sunning, and minor soiling (mainly to rear cover) and is housed in an adjustable plastic sleeve. Internally, the book is Near Fine with deckled edge and illustrated endpapers. The colour dust jacket is by famous illustrator Paul Galdone (1907-1987). Though mostly noted for children's picture books, this early illustration (which appears to have gone unnoticed) depicts the lusty, rough-and-tumble, whisky-soaked life of northern goldminers. From the dust jacket: Gold mining with a pick and shovel is hard work. In the Far North it also entails being out in all weathers, risk of frostbite, solitude [...] What might have been a sordid and ugly account of predatory villainy becomes in his hands a tragicomedy of the last time America blew off steam.

First Edition.189 p.; ill. (frontispiece). Vintage green cloth hardcover with red debossed lettering and blindstamped decorative border shows only minor wear, most notably a slight fading of colour and some edgewear to tip and heel of spine. There is some light foxing of foredges as well as on a number of the pages, the frontispiece has browned the title page (see image) and the binding is cracked but holding at pp. 128/129. The dust jacket is aged with sunning, some edgewear, and chipping, but has been housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear. See images. From the dust jacket flap: Mr. Eden Phillpotts' book, The Human Boy, has been a joy to many thousands of readers. A Human Boy's Diary takes the form of a schoolboy's diary kept during his first three terms. He is not at all an ordinary schoolboy, and his comrades—the poet, the wicked boy, and the Jew boy who lends money at interest, and many others—are both witty and shrewd. A book for grown-ups as well as their sons and… Read More

RARE. Approx. 36 p.; ill. (some spraypaint colour to covers). Ex-library with stamp (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg), mild shelf/edgewear, and staples have been removed, but text appears complete and is otherwise in Very Good+ to Near Fine condition. An Arkansas punk rock zine dealing with poverty, alternative lifestyles, conscious living, community, history, and social commentary. It is a liberally illustrated little booklet packed full of musings, information, humour, ideology, stories, poetry, and advice.

Approx 40 p. (unnumbered); ill. Silk-screened colour covers. Ex-library (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg) with only a stamp to the inside of the front cover, and minor bumping to bottom corner, otherwise Fine. From the publisher: This issue contains things that will make you laugh, smile, and cry - visiting friends in the hospital, the early morning, the story of the zine's title, picking up your friends shifts at work, Shelley's annual trips to India, and organizing drag shows. But the real gem of this issue is the story of teaching 9 to 15-year-olds how to fix bikes. It transcends the obvious and covers all kinds of education - homophobia, identity, feminism, and to question what we mean when we say 'community'.

RARE. 47 p.; ill. (some colour) and pop-ups. Ex-library with number in pen and stamp (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg), mild wear to extremities, and one photo corner has become unglued, otherwise internally Near Fine. Working largely with remixed "found" content, this comedic zine is profusely illustrated, including comics, and contains many "interactive" pages: business card in photo corners (pg. 15)pop-up satellite (pg. 21)pop-up pig tug-o-war (pg. 29)censoring paper over image (pg. 36)lift-up flap which is a present shape made of construction paper (pg. 42)Though humorous, it also deals with depression and other serious topics.

RARE. 27 p. Covers have a few insignificant closed tears, front cover has a small light stain, and the pages have been slightly creased at the bottom corner, but the book is otherwise Fine. This zine, formerly known as KIMOSABE, is a rather rudimentary publication of bare-bones text, for the most part, which seems to be the journal of Parker, discussing daily activities and events, including his experience on a "lemon water cleanse" and vandalizing surfaces with his resume in an attempt to get a job (which garners him a TV interview).

RARE. Approx. 40 p. (unnumbered); ill. Ex-library (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg) with stamp and sticker, extremely mild shelfwear, otherwise Fine. An incredibly well put together zine, with high-quality amateur artwork and text which is mostly done by hand in a beautiful and amazingly regular all-caps. Contains such content as card tricks, comics, photography, history, recipes, and reviews. Includes topics such as skating, veganism, movies, coffee, W. C. Fields, and travel.

Second Printing stated. 148 p.; ill. Gray hardcover, with gilt lettering to black cloth spine, has minor edgewear and fading, a tiny brown mark to ffep, and expected aging to pages, but is otherwise Near Fine. Dust jacket, which shows some aging and edgewear, including sunning, small tears, chips, and abrasions, is housed in a protective removable plastic sleeve to prevent further wear. Please see listing images.From the dust jacket: In his eighty-first year our greatest living philosopher, shortly after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, has turned to fiction. "A few words may be in order," writes Lord Russell, "to mitigate any surprise that might be felt. I do not think that the reader's surprise to find me attempting stories can be greater than my own. For some reason entirely unknown to me I suddenly wished to write the stories in this volume, although I had never before thought of doing such a thing. I am incapable of critical judgment in this field and I do not know whether the stories have… Read More

Advance Reading Copy. 280 p. Price correction to rear and extremely mild edgewear, otherwise Fine, seemingly unread. From the back: Dr. Phillip Sharpe, absent-minded professor extraordinaire, teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto and is one of Canada's most combative public intellectuals. But when a live TV debate with his fiercest rival goes horribly off the rails, an oblivious Philip says some things to her that he really shouldn't have. As a clip of Phillip's "slip" goes viral, it's soon reveals all of the cracks and fissures in his marriage with his young, stay-at-home wife, Grace. And while the two of them try to get on the same side of the situation, things quickly spiral out of control. Can Philip make amends and save his marriage? Is there any hope of salvaging his reputation? To do so, he'll need to take a hard look at his on-air comments and conscript a band of misfits in a scheme to set things right.