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9780405090561 | Reprint edition (Ayer Co Pub, December 1, 1963), cover price $26.95 | also contains Louder and Funnier

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A selection of McManus's writings spanning his eight years as associate editor of and contributor to Field & Stream offers observations on the hapless victims of camping, fishing, hunting, and hiking

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9780805001662 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1978, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A selection of McManus's writings spanning his eight years as associate editor of and contributor to Field & Stream offers observations on the hapless victims of camping, fishing, hunting, and hiking

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9780805000320 | Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 1987, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A selection of McManus's writings spanning his eight years as associate editor of and contributor to Field & Stream offers observations on the hapless victims of camping, fishing, hunting, and hiking

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Product Description: These "39 prodigal pieces" show Robert Benchley at the height of his whimsicality, damning with gentle urbanity all the things that peeve every one of us — but with a wit and mock anger none of the rest of us could have managed. The discomforts of travel on trains, large and heavy suitcases that must be carried by unwilling porters, standing in line at the post office (then to learn that your package is improperly tied), malicious fogs that blot out the race track at the last lap, the sand that gets kicked into one's face at the beach, vitamins and their puffery, and all the petty annoyances that we grumble about ourselves but laugh at when they befall others...read more

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9780486224107 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1970, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: These "39 prodigal pieces" show Robert Benchley at the height of his whimsicality, damning with gentle urbanity all the things that peeve every one of us — but with a wit and mock anger none of the rest of us could have managed.

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A highly amusing, irreverent survey of composers and related topics--musical instruments, conductors, and symphony musicians--relates factual anecdotes and historical references through Borge's charming wit

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9780871317582, titled "Victor Borge's My Favorite Comedies in Music" | M Evans & Co, March 1, 1994, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A highly amusing, irreverent survey of composers and related topics--musical instruments, conductors, and symphony musicians--relates factual anecdotes and historical references through Borge's charming wit

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9780531099360 | Franklin Watts, October 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A highly amusing, irreverent survey of composers and related topics--musical instruments, conductors, and symphony musicians--relates factual anecdotes and historical references through Borge's charming wit

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Product Description: McManus celebrates the hidden pleasures, unappreciated lore, and opportunities for disaster to be found in such outdoor recreations as camping, hunting, and fishing

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9780816143900 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1988), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: McManus celebrates the hidden pleasures, unappreciated lore, and opportunities for disaster to be found in such outdoor recreations as camping, hunting, and fishing
9780805001655 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1981, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A tongue-in-cheek survey of life in the outdoors offers a selection of witty tales and humorous discourses on the hidden joys of hunting, fishing, camping, and nature

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9780805000306 | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1982, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A tongue-in-cheek survey of life in the outdoors offers a selection of witty tales and humorous discourses on the hidden joys of hunting, fishing, camping, and nature

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9780523419954 | Pinnacle Books, November 1, 1983, cover price $3.50 | also contains A Piece of Her Heart

Follow S.J.P. from New York to Scotland, France, Russia, Turkey, Bankok, Java and back to Hollywood, U.S.A. in this fond, wry mosaic of the manias of mankind around the world. (view table of contents)

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9781580800686 | Reprint edition (Burford Books, September 1, 1998), cover price $12.95
9780671492502 | Reissue edition (Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1983), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Follow S.

A biography written by Marie Curie's daughter chronicles the Polish chemist's achievements in science, highlighting her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and her Nobel Prize-winning work in physics and chemistry.

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9780918377111 | Russell Pr, June 1, 1984, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867—1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century.

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9780306802812 | Da Capo Pr, August 21, 1986, cover price $16.00 | also contains Man Repeller: Seeking Love. Finding Overalls.

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9780613657440 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $34.20 | About this edition: A biography written by Marie Curie's daughter chronicles the Polish chemist's achievements in science, highlighting her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and her Nobel Prize-winning work in physics and chemistry.

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Product Description: Cajun humor must be kindly and homespun, andno one spins a tale with those requirements better than the world's number onehumorist, Justin Wilson.Written in dialect, his second collection of tales revolves around the livesof quick-witted farmers, determined deer hunters, and diehardfootball fans-people who could be your neighbors and friends, especially if youlive in Louisiana, and especially if you're the exceptionally neighborly andfriendly Justin Wilson-a man who never lets a good story go by...read more

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9780882894546 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, November 1, 1984, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Cajun humor must be kindly and homespun, andno one spins a tale with those requirements better than the world's number onehumorist, Justin Wilson.

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In a collection of spoofs on outdoor life, the author explains how to construct a grasshopper trap, the many uses of a skunk ladder, and how to become a human fuel pump (view table of contents)

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9780816140435, titled "The Grasshopper Trap" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1986), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In a collection of spoofs on outdoor life, the author explains how to construct a grassphopper trap, the many uses of a skunk ladder, and how to become a human fuel pump
9780030007385 | Henry Holt & Co, July 1, 1985, cover price $4.98 | About this edition: In a collection of spoofs on outdoor life, the author explains how to construct a grasshopper trap, the many uses of a skunk ladder, and how to become a human fuel pump

Paperback:

9780805001112, titled "The Grasshopper Trap" | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1986, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In a collection of spoofs on outdoor life, the author explains how to construct a grasshopper trap, the many uses of a skunk ladder, and how to become a human fuel pump

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Product Description: "Her audience is everyone who has ever married, had children, gotten to middle age, owned a dog or a duck."DALLAS TIMES HERALDIn this book Erma comes out--out of the kitchen--with these gems:No longer will she be the only woman on the block to wear a slip under a see-through sweater, or feel guilty if the sun sets on an empty crockpot, nor will she care that she flunked her paper towel test...read more

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9780126912609, titled "Wood As an Energy Resource" | Academic Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $22.50 | also contains Wood As an Energy Resource

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9780449209370 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, August 1, 1985), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: "Her audience is everyone who has ever married, had children, gotten to middle age, owned a dog or a duck.

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