Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997
ISBN 10: 0395856957 ISBN 13: 9780395856956
Seller: Orion Tech, Kingwood, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good.
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997
ISBN 10: 0395856957 ISBN 13: 9780395856956
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: As New.
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997
ISBN 10: 0395856957 ISBN 13: 9780395856956
Paperback. Condition: Good.
Seller: Zach the Ripper Books, Gillette, WY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First printing. Unclipped, mylar protected dust jacket. Like new condition. Very tight binding.
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997
ISBN 10: 0395856957 ISBN 13: 9780395856956
Seller: GridFreed, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin, New York & Boston, 2003
ISBN 10: 0618118810 ISBN 13: 9780618118816
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Frazier. Collects 24 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 2002. Includes contributions from Lawrence Millman, Steven Rinella, Jacob Silverstein, Peter Canby, Rebecca Barry, Geoff Dyer, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tom Bissell, William T. Vollmann and others. Notes on contributors. xxii, 358 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 321 pp.
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1997
ISBN 10: 0395856957 ISBN 13: 9780395856956
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. The 12th in the series. SIGNED by Bernard Cooper at his essay on mazes in 'Labyrinthine', These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. In addition to the contributions by Thomas McGuane, Cynthia Ozick, Richard Ford, Charles Simic, Dagoberto Gilb, some other selections include Debra Dickerson on 'Who Shot Johnny?' a moving indictment of the world that left her 17 year old nephew paralyzed, Susan Sontag on 'A Century of Cinema; and Joy Williams on 'The Case Against Babies' and much more. Introduction by Frazier and brief biographies of the contributors. 226 pp. Near fine in wrappers (spine slightly faded.).
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin, New York & Boston, 2003
ISBN 10: 0618118810 ISBN 13: 9780618118816
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: FINE. First printing. Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Frazier. Collects 24 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 2002. Includes contributions from Lawrence Millman, Steven Rinella, Jacob Silverstein, Peter Canby, Rebecca Barry, Geoff Dyer, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tom Bissell, William T. Vollmann and others. Notes on contributors. xxii, 358 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Published by Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC, 2000
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Fall 2000. 120 pages. Memoir by Simon Winchester. Ode by Ian Frazier. Features fiction by Jose Saramago and Mitch Cohen and poetry by Li-Young Lee, Steve Fellner, Kevin Young, and others. Includes photographs by Paul D'Amato, Lois Connor, and a review of Danny Lyon's book "Knave of Hearts." A near fine copy in wrappers.
Seller: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st printing. "HUMOR ME is a literary cavalcade of contemporary American funnymen and funny women of the page. Selected by the renowned humorist Ian Frazier and featuring more than fifty pieces of the greatest comic writing of our time, the book includes such masters of the form as Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce Jay Friedman, Veronica Geng, Jack Handey, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin and Calvin Trillin, as well as work by newer comic stars like Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, Simon Rich, George Saunders and David Sedaris. The pieces were published in the past thirty years in such popular magazines as The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Atlantic, National Lampoon, and Outside. But the book also includes a handful of older comic masterpieces that nobody in need of a laugh should ever be without, among them classics by Bret Harte, Elizabeth Bishop, Donald Barthelme and Mark Twain." [jacket copy] Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in an intact, laughing chorus, jacket.
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2005
ISBN 10: 0618357130 ISBN 13: 9780618357130
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: NEAR FINE. Trade paperback. A long-running and excellent series, under the general editorship of Robert Atwan, of books which are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes essays by Andrea Barrett, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Jonathan Lethem, Cathleen Schine, David Foster Wallace. Robert Stone, Oliver Sacks and others. SIGNED by THREE authors - Susan Orlean on the title page and two at their essays: Jonathan Lethem at "Speak, Hoyt-Schermerhorn" (a tribute to a subway station in Brooklyn) and Cathleen Schine at "Dog Trouble." Introduction by Susan Orlean and brief biographies of the contributors. xviii, 292 pp. Very near fine.
Language: English
Published by The Library of America, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 1598532537 ISBN 13: 9781598532531
Seller: Second Edition Books, Butte, MT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Binding tight, interior clean and bright. Book in excellent condition. Brown boards; bright gilt on spine; in-bound ribbon. Cream slipcase also in excellent condition with bright gilt. Collector's note included. "Ring Lardner wrote like nobody else, caught the feel of his era like nobody else, and knew how to make people laugh with a voice or a plot change-up or a small misspelling. He was a major figure in twentieth-century American letters." - Ian Frazier. 961 pages including notes.
paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!