Product Description: In a world where reading is reportedly dead, renowned humorist, illustrator, and New Yorker contributor Bruce McCall offers 50 inventive, outlandish, and wickedly entertaining things to do with all those excess books in 50 Things to Do with a Book...read more

Product Description: What’s it like growing up in a town founded by inventors? On Saturdays, the adults open the doors of the Invent-o-Drome and give local children free rein to create whatever gadgets they can think up. Hypno-Goggles, a Rocket Chair, a homeworkeating robo-dog – the can-do kids of Marveltown are never at a loss for ideas...read more

A collection of more than fifty favorite stories from The Wall Street Journal includes tales of animal idiosyncrasies, scientific breakthroughs, wilderness survival, and the human race's impact on the animal kingdom. Original. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A retrospective celebration of the long career of one of America's leading illustrators and humorists includes a zany collection of hilarious illustrations, including works from The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications, as well as some never-before-seen illustrations. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Text by Bruce McCall. "Exceptional book . . . the best of humor . . . refreshing. Delightful!" is how George Booth describes Sit! in The New York Times Book Review. Working in the dog-as-person-as-art vein of William Wegman (but at the other end of the spectrum), Theirry Poncelet combs flea markets and antique shops for ancestral portraits; restores them brush-stroke by brush-stroke; and then seamlessly paints in a dog's head over the subject's...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In a zany look at the dream car culture of the 1950s, the popular humorist combines whimsical full-color illustrations and a hilarious text as he looks at some of the best cars Detroit never made, including the Quizfire 5,000 Jackpot, the Nixoneer Squelchormatic, and the Bongo Beatnick Ferlinghetti Turbo-Hipster. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: His skates were too small. Or they didn't match. Or they were that ultimate humiliation for a boy trying to play hockey--girls' white figure skates. Add to young Bruce McCall's shabby equipment his pencil-thin wrists, weak ankles, and, as he puts it, "a fruit bat's metabolism with a tree sloth's reflexes,"  and you'll understand why he failed so dismally in the cold, rough world of neighborhood hockey in Toronto...read more

A humorous look at the potential sexual explosion that could occur with the impotence drug Viagra, offering a Viagra aptitude test, a Kama Sutra for seniors, a Viagra horoscope, and the Viagra model bedroom of tomorrow

An entertaining and moving memoir about growing up describes the author's move from an idyllic small-town boyhood to over-crowded Toronto, life with a tyrant father and alcoholic mother, and varied careers as scholastic failure, social outcast, Canada's worst hockey player, and budding humorist. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Parodies ads, stamp albums, propaganda posters, warplanes, science magazines, baseball, and inventions

Product Description: VINTAGE black & white nude photographs, parlors, bedrooms, staged.