Best of
Humor

1974

10 años con Mafalda


Quino - 1974
    The quirky young girl became an icon throughout Latin America, similar to Charlie Brown in the United States. One could say Mafalda is a singular phenomenon, though, as she is popular both with adults and children even 20 years after the series ended. Several volumes of Mafalda cartoons have been reprinted, but this is the first one that gathers a selection of cartoons spanning the 1964?74 period.

The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate


Nancy Mitford - 1974
    Mitford's most famous novels, "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate," satirize British aristocracy in the '20s and '30s through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modeled on Mitford's own.

The Milagro Beanfield War


John Nichols - 1974
    Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly ter, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.

World of Psmith Omnibus


P.G. Wodehouse - 1974
    This omnibus contains four full-length novels: "Psmith in the City", "Psmith Journalist" and "Leave it to Psmith".

Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin: The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin


Idries Shah - 1974
    

Glorious Nosebleed


Edward Gorey - 1974
    The Glorious Nosebleed, an alphabet created with Edward Gorey’s inimitable sense of the weird and the macabre, trips from A to Z with illustrations that are both strikingly funny and a bit weird, all the way from “She wandered among the trees Aimlessly” to “He wrote it all down Zealously.” A classic of Gorey’s imaginative and darkly humorous mind.

National Lampoon: 1964 High School Yearbook: 39th Reunion Edition


P.J. O'Rourke - 1974
    Estes Kefauver High School in Dacron, Ohio!  They’re all back in glorious black and white with color Magic Marker–Chuck U. Farley, Maria Teresa Spermatozoa, Purdy “Psycho” Lee Spackle, Faun Laurel Rosenberg, and, of course, Dacron’s most famous son, Larry Kroger.  Learn everything there is to know about Kroger’s past before he became the pop-culture legend Pinto (Tom Hulce), the virgin fraternity pledge in National Lampoon’s Animal House. With a hilarious “Where are they now?” addendum and a brilliantly funny new introduction by P. J. O’Rourke, the 39th Reunion Edition is sure to be the talk of the baby boomers who grew up with National Lampoon and of the new generation of comedy fans spawned by the success of The Onion.

Who's Got the Apple


Jan Lööf - 1974
    Chain of events is set in motion when storekeeper tries to trick a customer.

McAuslan in the Rough


George MacDonald Fraser - 1974
    Wodehouse did for the English.

The Fan Man


William Kotzwinkle - 1974
    It is told in the first-person by the narrator, Horse Badorties, a down-at-the-heels hippie living a life of drug-fueled befuddlement in New York City c. 1970. The book is written in a colorful, vernacular "hippie-speak" and tells the story of the main character's hapless attempts to put together a benefit concert featuring his own hand-picked choir of 15-year-old girls.Horse is a somewhat tragic, though historically humorous, character with echoes of other famous characters in popular culture such as Reverend Jim Ignatowski of Taxi fame. In his inability to follow anything through to completion he displays symptoms of attention-deficit disorder though this could equally be drug-induced. His defining characteristic is his joy in renting or commandeering apartments which he fills with street-scavenged junk articles until full to bursting he moves on to his next "pad". The name "fan man" is a reference to another of his traits; the collecting of fans of all shapes and sizes.

The Devil's Storybook


Natalie Babbitt - 1974
    In this collection of ten original stories, Natalie Babbitt offers us a middle-aged Old Scratch with a tender ego, proud of Hell and anxious for his reputation; a plotter at once pompous and naive who has a way of losing as often as he wins. Nothing metaphysical here--this devil, rather, has an all-too-human nature.Some of his adventures in the World--for instance, his run-in with Walpurgis, a talking goat--are good for a laugh. Some, like the story of the clergyman who finds a demon's baby on the steps of the church, will leave readers thoughtful.

Bridge In The Fourth Dimension


Victor Mollo - 1974
    Improve your bridge the painless way with these hilarious and well-loved characters.

Slicer


Garth Marenghi - 1974
    Then, slowly, it began to turn skywards. Och, no, he thought before the end, not ma brain... not ma brain... anything but ma brain...please don't slice ma brain... no, no... not the brain...och, no...'Never before had there been a book about a flying knife, and, although Marenghi would ink three sequels*, Slasher, R.I.P.P.E.R., and Slicer IV: The Blade is Back, Slicer is our first novel-length taste of the Marenghian terrors to come. The themes are all here: blood, redemption, fear of cutlery, distaste for body hair, and the question of Man's place (mis-place?) in Romford. Its influence can be seen in a host of imitators, notably Fork! by Herbert G. Samson.Much has been written about Slicer's psychological implications (try either Dan Britten's essay in 'Bending Spoons and Stabbing Knives: the Psychic Phenomena of Spiritual Cutlery' (New York, 1985) or Muriel Carter's Slash Me, Slay Me - Post-Modern Carve-ups in 20th Century Horror Fiction (New York, 1988) ), but most significantly it gave a much needed kick in the arm of an elitist publishing industry obsessed by literary 'classics'. And, as Hard Gore's Neil Nichols has opined: 'One can only be thankful that our bi-annual Marenghi shock treatments continue to prevent the genre slipping into postmodern somnambulism.' Marenghi evidently concurs with the renowned splatter fiction aficionado : 'I see my life as being a single-handed pump. And that can get lonely.'*Marenghi prefers to think of them as a 'self-integral cycle''It really doesn't get any better' The Observer'A cut above the rest of the so-called "dangerous implement horror" sub-genre' The Sunday Times

वंग चित्रे [Vanga chitre]


P.L. Deshpande - 1974
    The book describes the visit,the Shantiniketan,its people,their lifestyle,work of Ravindranath Tagore,his philosophy and above all, the intense effect this world casts on author,in an encounter with his own ideology and philosophy of life...!

The Completely MAD Don Martin His Best Cartoons from MAD Magazine


Don Martin - 1974
    

The Original Mad Libs 1


Roger Price - 1974
    Someone asks for a part of speech: a verb, a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. We've included definitions and examples of the parts of speech in case you've forgotten. Players call out their ideas to fill in the blanks and in the end, you have a story reeling from one silly sentence to another until nothing makes sense. That's what you call a Mad Lib®, the world's greatest word game. Players have been howling with friends or laughing all to themselves for over 35 years!Here's where the fun begins. Check out The Original Mad Libs®. Once you hear the laughs this one inspires, you'll probably want to play the rest.

The Firesign Theatre's Big mystery joke book


David Ossman - 1974
    Money Song 2. An Invocation from the Book of Punter 3. The Mysterious History of "The Firesign Theatre" 4. The Tale of The Giant Rat of Sumatra 5. The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye 6. Temporarily Humboldt County 7. The Adventures of Mark Time 8. Hundred Dollar Ben 9. Young Guy, Motor Detective 10. The Year Of The Rat 11. Gramps' World 12. Rubbergon Dumn Toyko 13. Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde 14. The Dream Play (for Monkey, Dreamer, Mudhead and Snake)

The Portmanteau Book


Thomas Rockwell - 1974
    Stories, poems, and nonsense for all moods and conditions.

The Token Mad


MAD Magazine - 1974
    2nd printing.

Zen Comics


Ioanna Salajan - 1974
    Laughter deflates pretension and a good rap on the head sometimes transcends so-called logic. In the words of Zen, "Nothing is left for you but to laugh!"

The Snoopy Festival


Charles M. Schulz - 1974
    Snoopy Cartoons: Over 600 black-and-white strips and 96 pages full color

The Road to Many a Wonder


David Wagoner - 1974
    So a stranger advised Ike Bender, the appealing twenty-year-old hero of this high-spirited comedy ( which reads like a hitherto unwritten chapter of American folklore), as he began, soon to be joined by his even younger bride-to-be Millie, the 500-mile journey behind, before, and underneath a homemade wheelbarrow during the infamous Pikes Peak Gold Rush of 1859.

The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra


Phil Pepe - 1974
     New York Times–bestselling author Phil Pepe takes readers along on Yogi Berra’s journey from St. Louis to New York’s Yankee Stadium, including all the stops along the way—from his days as a tack-puller in a women’s shoe factory, to a pre-game tribute in St. Louis, when he coined the phrase, “I want to thank all those that made this night necessary,” to his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Pepe explores Yogi Berra as a boy, player, hero, coach, manager, husband, father, and jokester, including all of the “Yogi-isms,” in an absorbing treatment that is simultaneously comical, thoughtful, and biographical.   Famous Yogi-isms:   - About a popular restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” - On Little League Baseball: “I think it’s wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.” - On why the Yankees lost the 1960 World Series: “We made too many wrong mistakes.”

Smashed Potatoes: A Kid's-Eye View of the Kitchen


Jane G. Martel - 1974
    Gives children's versions of their favorite dishes such as "Basketti," "A whole turkey," and "Banilla cake."

Hancock's Half Hour


Ray Galton - 1974
    The episodes include two of the most famous ever - 'The Blood Donor' and 'The Radio Ham' - as well as two others from the same series - 'The Bowmans' and 'The Bedsitter'.

The Fourth MAD Declassified Papers on... Spy Vs Spy


Antonio Prohías - 1974
    

Justin Wilson's Cajun Humor


Justin Wilson - 1974
    Justin Wilson, the world's greatest spinner ofCajun tales, and Howard Jacobs, a leading authority on Cajun dialects, combinetheir rare talents in this rollicking anthology of Cajun humor.

The Invisible Mad


MAD Magazine - 1974
    

The Laughing Buddha: Zen and the Comic Spirit


M. Conrad Hyers - 1974
    

Down The Kitchen Sink


Beverley Nichols - 1974
    When he began to write the first, he could not prune a rose. When he began to write the second, he could not boil an egg. Perhaps this is why both books remain fresh and eminently readable. The phrase 'kitchen sink' may suggest squalor and disillusionment, but Beverley Nichols transforms it into a symbol of merriment and adventure. With a new foreword by Roy Dicks and Val Biro's charming drawings, the Timber Press edition of Down the Kitchen Sink deservedly takes its place among Beverley's classics on gardens, homes, cats, and other friends.

The Puffin Joke Book


Bronnie Cunningham - 1974
    

Gertrude & Heathcliffe


Red Skelton - 1974
    A collection of over seventy Gertrude and Heathcliffe jokes with directions by the author-pantomime artist on how to imitate a seagull when telling them.

Hancock's Half Hour


Ray Galton - 1974
    1st edition 1st printing trade paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Lizard of Oz


Richard Seltzer - 1974
    When an elementary class sets out on a quest to save the world form disenchantment, their adventures reveal paradoxes of the human mind and ways of awakening the magic within us.The second edition is online for free at my web sitehttp://www.seltzerbooks.com/lizardill...It's a great improvement and will probably never appear in print

The Sanity Inspector


Alan Coren - 1974
    

Herblock Special Report


Herbert Block - 1974
    A true American institution, Herblock has been satirizing the powerful, the smug, and the hypocritical for more than fifty years. Herblock is filled with the wit, candor, and cartoons that have earned their author many awards, including the Franklin Roosevelt Freedom Medal.From coining the term "McCarthyism" to cartoons attacking racism, Herblock has played an integral role in our times. Here he turns his thoughts and pen on Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam, the civil rights struggle, Iran-Contra, and much more. This trade-paper edition includes a new chapter on the tumultuous Clinton presidency and the Gingrich Congress, and thirty new cartoons.

Will Eisner's gleeful guide to living with astrology: An every-day manual for coping with people, events, and afflictions through astrology


Will Eisner - 1974
    An every-day manual for coping with people, events, and afflictions through astrology.

The Tooth and My Father


William Saroyan - 1974
    

The Pocket Mad


MAD Magazine - 1974
    

Mark One: The Dummy


John Dudley Ball - 1974
    

Grow with Your Plants: The Mother Earth Hassle-Free Way


Lynn Rapp - 1974
    

More there I was


Bob Stevens - 1974
    

Monster Holidays


Norman Bridwell - 1974
    Summer, fall, winter, or spring,a monster is the very thingto make your holidays this yearFull of fun and laugh and cheer.