Roy Blount

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Louisiana

The richest vein of American humor--the broadest, the earthiest, the most outrageously inventive--can be found below the Mason-Dixon line, where the comic impulse just naturally seems allied to the native storytelling genius, and the sacred and the profane are on the closest of terms.Roy Blount, Jr., himself a native Southerner and on paper and in person one of the funniest men in America, has dug deep and foraged far and wide to produce the definitive treasury of Southern humor for our time. It comprises more than 150 selections, including stories, sketches, essays, poems, memoirs, and blues and C&W lyrics, arranged under such headings as "My People, My People (How's Your Mama 'n Them?)," "Here Be Dragons, or, How Come These Butterbeans Have an Alligator Taste?" and "Lying and Other Forms of Communication." The wildly heterogeneous roster of contributors range from such classics as William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty to such brilliantly funny contemporaries as Molly Ivins, Dave Barry, Harry Crews, Ishmael Reed, Barry Hannah, Bailey White, and Roy Blount, Jr., his very own self.If you could stop laughing long enough you'd probably call Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor a classic. And you'd be right.

Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor

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Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor 
Vintage 1994- First Edition 

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Florida

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Not Exactly What I Had in Mind

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Delaware

Or, the Joy of Text

Alphabetter Juice

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

This is the book everyone had waited for.  Here, in one convenient, comprehensive volume, is the complete story of the word still considered the most vulgar utterance in the English language.  Rather than tired clichés or graceless jokes,The F-Wordcontains page after page of actual, uncensored examples of the word in all its varied and robust use, from its first appearance in English in the fifteenth century.

The F-Word

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Guy Fox finds his romance and marriage to Clementine Fox, vice president of the United States, irrevocably altered when the president drops dead and Clementine becomes America's first female president.

First Hubby

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Virginia

A Conditional Love Story

By turns sardonic and sentimental, brazen and bashful, tough and tender, the autobiography of this Georgia boy turned New York wit resonates with the complex but bouncy chords of a whole man's singing.

Be Sweet

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Massachusetts

Or I'm Just a Bug on the Windshield of Life

One Fell Soup

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Maryland

A Life

The quintessential Southern commentator examines the great Confederate hope and Civil War hero.

Robert E. Lee

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Michigan

Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations

Our best-laid plans will yield to fate. And we will say, “We lived. We ate.” Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from “a work of art” (Robert W. Creamer, The New York Times Book Review) to “a book to read till it falls apart” (Newsweek). Now, in Save Room for Pie, he applies his much-praised wit and charm to a rich and fundamental topic: food. As a lifelong eater, Blount always got along easy with food—he didn’t have to think, he just ate. But food doesn’t exist in a vacuum; there’s the global climate and the global economy to consider, not to mention Blount’s chronic sinusitis, which constricts his sense of smell, and consequently his taste buds. So while he’s always frowned on eating with an ulterior motive, times have changed. Save Room for Pie grapples with these and other food-related questions in Blount’s signature style. Here you’ll find lively meditations on everything from bacon froth to grapefruit, Kobe beef to biscuits. You’ll also find defenses of gizzards, mullet, okra, cane syrup, watermelon, and boiled peanuts; an imagined dialogue between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; input from Louis Armstrong, Frederick Douglass, and Blaze Starr; and of course some shampooed possums and carjacking turkeys. In poems and songs, limericks and fake (or sometimes true) news stories, Blount talks about food in surprising and innovative ways, with all the wit and verve that prompted Garrison Keillor, in The Paris Review, to say: “Blount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence.”

Save Room for Pie (ARC)

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Save Room for Pie

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Iowa

Valerie Shaff

True Portraits of Dogs

This collection teams up dog portraits by Valerie Shaff and verse by humorist Roy Blount Jr., to give an original portrayal of what dogs really think.

If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You

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This funny book brings us closer to understanding the inner dog. With Shaff's warm, velvety portraits and Blount's verse.

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California

Mark Twain

former library book. pages yellowing but still in good condition

Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur’s utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic. Critically deemed one of Twain’s finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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Tennessee

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New Jersey

The Ages of Dog

Who enters the world with the faintest inkling
There's anything wrong with spontaneous tinkling?

How do puppies see the world? Each other? Us? What do young dogs really think? What are the rites of passage from puppyhood to doghood? I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap is a fascinating collection of more than fifty delightful and witty photographs by Valerie Shaff, whose portraits are unique in their uncanny ability to capture the essence of each young dog and puppy. Roy Blount Jr.'s incomparable text brings these pups hilariously to life, and he comes as close to capturing the inner thoughts of canines as any human can. Together, Shaff and Blout take us to the brink of understanding the different ages of dogs.

What's that? I've got
Dirt on my tongue?
And were you not
Ever young?


I Am Puppy Hear Me Yap

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Mark Twain
Illustrator Peter de Seve
First Edition

(First Edition)

Set in the quaint hollow of Deer Lick, a mythical town resembling Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri, this bizarre tale chronicles the fortunes of humble farmer John Gray, determined to marry off his daughter Mary to the scion of the town's wealthiest family.

A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Who hasn't looked into a dog's eyes and wondered what thoughts he is trying to express? This collection teams up dog portraits by Valerie Shaff with verse by humorist Roy Blount Jr to give an original and humorous portrayal of what dogs really think.

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