Esar, Evan (1899- )

Esar's Joke Dictionary, by Evan Esar

New York: Harvest House [1945]. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 491 pages; Description: vii. 491 p. 21 cm. Subjects: Wit and humor.

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Book number: 162063

Esar, Evan (1899-? )

Esar's Comic Dictionary

New York : Harvest House 1943. Stated First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 313 pages; Physical description.: vii. 313 p. 19 cm. Subject: Wit and humor.

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Book number: 204504

Esar, Evan

The Legend of Joe Miller

San Francisco, Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1957. A prefatory fragment with Joe Milleriana selections from John Mottley's original edition, tables of jestbooks and bibliography by Nat Schmulowitz. 30 [1]p. tipped-in colored front. quarto format, original stiff printed wrappers with yapped fore-edge. One of 300 copies private printed by the Grabhorn Press for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. (Anecdita SCOWAH, 2). .

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Book number: 050617

Keywords: Joe Miller Humor Brabhorn Press Printing

BENTLEY N & ESAR E

Treasury of humorous quotations

J M Dent 1962 J M Dent 1962 254pp paperback, cover rubbed and slightly discoloured with a crease on the back otherwise a good clean tight copy Good

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Book number: 46963

OMNIBOOK (GENE FOWLER; ALFRED HAYES; WALTER VAN TILBURG CLARK; QUENTIN REYNOLDS; HARRY WALKER HEPNER; ROBERT J. CASEY; EVELYN EATON; EVAN ESAR)

Omnibook Magazine: August, Aug. 1949 ("Beau James"; "the Girl on the Via Flamina"; "the Track of the Cat")

NY, Review of Reviews Corp. 1948. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 11, No. 9. Includes Book Abridgments: "Beau James" by Gene Fowler; "The Girl on the Via Flamina" by Alfred Hayes; "The Track of the Cat" by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Book Selections: "Souverain" by Quentin Reynolds; "What Is Your Social I.Q.?" by Harry Walker Hepner; "The Night the River Came Up" by Robert J. Casey; "The North Star Is Nearer" by Evelyn Eaton; "Barbs and Billings and Bierce" by Evan Esar, Editor. Tanning; corner and edge nicks and wear; wraps a littlle dust-soiled. Very Good.

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Book number: PR468

Catalogue: Magazines

Keywords: Magazine Magazines Fiction Humor Mystery Romance Adventure Fiction Magazine