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Product Description: Following the success of The Limerickiad volume I, Martin Rowson continues to lower the tone by reducing literary classics to a series of terrible limericks. Mixing Low Comedy and High Seriousness, awful puns and dodgy rhymes, The Limerickiad volume II takes the story forward from John Donne to Jane Austen...read more

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9780956814494 | Dufour Editions, September 15, 2014, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Following the success of The Limerickiad volume I, Martin Rowson continues to lower the tone by reducing literary classics to a series of terrible limericks.

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Product Description: Every week since 2006, the award-winning cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson has been making a fool of himself in The Independent on Sunday by reducing the work of some of the world's best-loved writers to a series of puerile and filthy limericks...read more

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9780957574700 | Dufour Editions, September 15, 2014, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Every week since 2006, the award-winning cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson has been making a fool of himself in The Independent on Sunday by reducing the work of some of the world's best-loved writers to a series of puerile and filthy limericks.

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Product Description: A modern illustrated retelling of Swift's classic, of which Will Self says "Hunter S. Thompson once observed that satire was no longer possible because reality had become too twisted, but Rowson gives the handle a few more cranks and lo! a masterpiece is resurrected...read more
By Martin Rowson (adapted by)

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9781848872820 | Atlantic Books, March 1, 2012, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A modern illustrated retelling of Swift's classic, of which Will Self says "Hunter S.

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9781782390084 | Atlantic Books, November 1, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A modern illustrated retelling of Swift's classic, of which Will Self says "Hunter S.

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An illustrated parody of T.S. Eliot and Raymond Chandler tells the story of L.A. private detective Christopher Marlowe and his search for his partner's murderer

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9780857420411 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 2012), cover price $17.00
9780060964764 | Harpercollins, January 1, 1990, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: An illustrated parody of T.

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9780789324047 | Reprint edition (Rizzoli Intl Pubns, September 13, 2011), cover price $7.98
9780789320575 | Universe Pub, September 8, 2009, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years—and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer—visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its purest form. Cartoons have long since established themselves as a legitimate part of the general political discourse...read more

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9781906497019 | Seagull Books, May 26, 2009, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years—and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer—visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its purest form.

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Product Description: The award-winning cartoonist tells the story of Earth from the Big Bang, the death of the dinosaurs, the invention of the wheel, the Trojan War, Nazism, 9/11 and beyond, to the End of the World, in sixty-seven splendidly satirical images, all with only a one-word caption.

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9780224084413 | Vintage Uk, October 2, 2008, cover price $30.30 | About this edition: The award-winning cartoonist tells the story of Earth from the Big Bang, the death of the dinosaurs, the invention of the wheel, the Trojan War, Nazism, 9/11 and beyond, to the End of the World, in sixty-seven splendidly satirical images, all with only a one-word caption.

By Martin Rowson (illustrator)

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9781903906453 | Gardners Books, October 31, 2004, cover price $16.45

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Product Description: L.A. private eye Christopher Marlowe is searching for his dead partner's killers. In his wanderings in a nightmare world of literary allusions he meets a range of characters including T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

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9780809590216 | Borgo Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $20.00

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9780330372268, titled "Wasteland" | Pan Books Ltd, December 1, 1999, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: L.

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In a wickedly satirical novella about the magazine business, Richard Hermes struggles to hold onto his soul while feeding his growing cocaine habit and chasing after a vacuous magazine columnist. Original. 30,000 first printing.
By Martin Rowson (illustrator) and Will Self

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9780802136473 | Grove Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: In a satirical novella about the magazine business, Richard Hermes struggles to hold onto his soul while feeding his growing cocaine habit and chasing after a vacuous magazine columnist
9780747531548 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, May 15, 1997), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: It looks like it is going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, a Christmas powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement.

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Complete with humorous illustrations a study of the unusual deaths of the Roman emperors features Maximin Daia, who battered his head against a wall until his eyes fell out; Augustus who ate a fig poisoned by his wife; and Tiberius, killed by suffocation.

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9780312146245 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Complete with humorous illustrations, a study of the unusual deaths of the Roman emperors features Maximin Daia, who battered his head against a wall until his eyes fell out; Augustus, who ate a fig poisoned by his wife; and Tiberius, killed by suffocation

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Product Description: The Roman Empire exacted a dreadful price for ruling over the glory that was Rome -- a hideously violent death. This is a viciously vile realization of the untimely ends of some of the great names of imperial Rome, through the witty words of Cicatrix (the pseudonym of a classical scholar) & the scatological sketches of Rowson...read more
By Julius Cicatrix and Martin Rowson (illustrator)

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9780788192814 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Roman Empire exacted a dreadful price for ruling over the glory that was Rome -- a hideously violent death.

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