Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Main Street Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780385188432ISBN:0385188439
Description: Shepherd, Jean. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Book is like new with only minor edge wear to cover. Pages are like new! A great copy! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 284 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Main Street Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780385188432ISBN:0385188439
Description: Shepherd, Jean. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Good copy. Binding is tight, pages are clean. Cover is nice with minor edgewear and some creasing to spine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 284 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780385175036ISBN:0385175035
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. A great copy with like new pages and boards. Minor shelf wear. DJ has very slight edge wear and is wrapped in a protective mylar cover. 265 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: first edition, 1981
ISBN-13:9780385175036ISBN:0385175035
Description: Very Good/Good hard cover. 12mo, cloth, 265pp, illus by author. edgewear, small tears some taped inside, chips, rubbing, scratches, scrapes, yellowing, small dampstain inside spine & front flap crease, dust jacket. spine twisted back a little at top, light rubbing, cover. yellowing edges, clean, tight, text. humor. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: 1981 Doubleday, NY; ISBN 0-385-17503-5
ISBN-13:9780385175036ISBN:0385175035
Description: 1st edition, hardcover, dust jacket has light edge rubbing with one closed tear at the back spine corner, otherwise near fine. The book itself is fine. A collection of humorous stories by Shepherd. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780385175036ISBN:0385175035
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0385175035. A collection of short stories. Illustrated by the author. First edition. Fine in a near fine, price clipped dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780385175036ISBN:0385175035
Description: 0385175035. 265 pages, illustrations, cloth, dj, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. Includes such amusements as A fistful of fig newtons or The shootout in room 303; The light at the end of the tunnel, The mole people battle the forces of darkness; Marcel Prous meets theNew Jersey Tailgater and survives, The lost civilization of Deli, The whole fun catalog of 1929 and Lost at C. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780385175036ISBN:0385175035
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket. 0385175035. Xii, 265, [2] pages, illustrations, cloth, DJ, very good. First edition. Contents: A fistful of fig newtons, or The shootout in room 303--The light at the end of the tunnel--The mole people battle the forces of darkness--Marcel Proust meets the New Jersey tailgater, and survives--The marathon run of Lonesome Ernie, the Arkansas Traveler--Sociology 101 (Hip Division)--Lemons on the grass, alas--The lost civilization of Deli--The whole fun catalog of ... read more
"I find Shepherd's hyperbolic style endlessly amusing. The quality of the pieces is a bit uneven - the best pieces are the imagined memoirs. I especially liked The Mole People Battle The Forces of Darkness and The Marathon Run of Lonesome Ernie The Arkansas Traveler. The rest was so so."
"I love Jean Shepherd. I love his narrative voice. This book is another collection of short stories, many of them centered around his army days (so a little later than the stories in "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories"). I pick it up often, and just did again, because I just don't get tired of these. He's so funny and always adds just the right details to his stories, so I can totally see the scene he's painting. I have a lesson to prepare, a book club book to read, a library book to read that's due soon, laundry to fold, and yet I find myself reading THIS book again because I like it so well. But I've found that not a lot of people have read these books, or really think Shepherd is as funny as I do. It's a kindred spirit that gets the humor, I guess."
"I think this was a guy lit, instead of a chick lit. It was interesting but I had a hard time keeping up with where the guy was exactly. It was kinda cool, the guy is stuck in traffic, and thinks about his past and remembers different stories."
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