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A follow-up to The Gallery of Regrettable Food presents a new collection of photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from the 1950s and 1960s, with commentary on an array of the 'best of the worst' dishes from the period, including international foods, restaurant delicacies, airline menus, unusual cocktails, and more. 35,000 first printing.
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9780307383075 | Crown Pub, November 27, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Presents photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from the 1950s and 1960s with commentary on an array of the 'best of the worst' dishes from the period.
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9781400082285 | Three Rivers Pr, October 25, 2005, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A whimsical compilation of outdated and questionable child care tips from the past covers everything from ads for obsolete items for the nursery to potty-training advice, dangerous party ideas, and more.
The author of The Gallery of Regrettable Food offers a hilarious look at the horrific atrocities of 1970s interior design, furnishing a revealing glimpse of the worst bedrooms, dens, rec rooms, and other interior spaces, as well as such regrettable stylistic innovations as plaid wallpaper and matching patterns on every item in a room, all taken from style magazines of the era. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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9781400046409, titled "Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible 70's" | Crown Pub, October 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author of The Gallery of Regrettable Food offers a hilarious look at the horrific atrocities of 1970s interior design, furnishing a revealing glimpse of the worst bedrooms, dens, rec rooms, and other interior spaces, as well as such regrettable stylistic innovations as plaid wallpaper and matching patterns on every item in a room, all taken from style magazines of the era.
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9780307238726 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, October 4, 2005), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The author of The Gallery of Regrettable Food offers a hilarious look at the horrific atrocities of 1970s interior design, furnishing a revealing glimpse of the worst bedrooms, dens, rec rooms, and other interior spaces, as well as such regrettable stylistic innovations as plaid wallpaper and matching patterns on every item in a room, all taken from style magazines of the era.
A hilarious collection of photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from classic American cookbooks of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s presents a horrible array of the 'best of the worst' dishes from the period, including such treats as 7-Up Cottage Cheese Pancakes. 35,000 first printing.
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9780609607824 | 1 edition (Clarkson Potter, September 1, 2001), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A collection of photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from classic American cookbooks of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s presents an array of the 'best of the worst' dishes from the period.
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9780671737030 | Pocket Books, February 1, 1994, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Offers humorous insights into such topics as animated spokescreatures, rap, coffee, disarmament, baseball, American cars, video stores, school prayer, and swimsuits
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9780671737047 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, September 1, 1995), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The acclaimed author of Notes of a Nervous Man and Mr.
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9780671737054 | Pocket Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: When a Minneapolis food critic is shot after exposing his encounter with Marxist food terrorists, a beautiful skinhead, an accused ex-marine sharpshooter, and a radio shockjock come together--with unexpected results.
A satirist uses dry humor to comment on topics from the sacred to the profane, ranging from the economy to buying bras, and from taxes to the backroads of Zen
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9780671737016 | Pocket Books, November 1, 1991, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A satirist uses dry humor to comment on topics from the sacred to the profane, ranging from the economy to buying bras, and from taxes to the backroads of Zen
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9780671737023 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, December 1, 1992), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A satirist uses dry humor to comment on topics from the sacred to the profane, ranging from the economy to buying bras, and from taxes to the backroads of Zen
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9780525246558 | E P Dutton, August 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A reporter with a nose for libel cases divides his passion equally between two women while trying to run his inherited house and dealing with a wholistic lifestyle organization willing to kill in the name of good health
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