ROY BLOUNT JR—Lot of (4) First-Edition HARDCOVERS—Each Signed

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A Lot of FOUR (4) SIGNED & INSCRIBED First-Edition HARDCOVERS: • ROY BLOUNT, JR. • SIGNING NOTE: Each of the four books is signed & inscribed by the author ROY BLOUNT, JR. For more details, please see photos & the highlighted text below. • TITLE 1: “ROY BLOUNT’S BOOK OF SOUTHERN HUMOR”(W.W. NORTON, 1994) (HARDCOVER, First Edition, First Printing) • “There is no great work of scholarship that offers so much pure delight to the reader as ROY BLOUNT’S BOOK OF SOUTHERN HUMOR. It’s a treasure. You keep it around and hula it out whenever you need to laugh out loud. This book, along with THE BIBLE and SHAKESPEARE’s plays and a good dictionary, should just about do you.”—GARRISON KEILLOR • TITLE 2: “NOW, WHERE WERE WE?”(VILLARD BOOKS, 1988) (HARDCOVER, First Edition, First Printing) • “Riotous…. These pieces are brilliantly loopy, reassuringly subversive and they put MR. BLOUNT in serious contention for the title of America’s most cherished humorist.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “BLOUNT is ANDY ROONEY with a Georgia accent, only funnier.” —WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD • TITLE 3: “FIRST HUBBY: A Novel About a Man Who Happens to be Married to the President of the United States”(VILLARD BOOKS, 1990) (HARDCOVER, First Edition, First Printing) • “Offers an emphatic and romantic ‘yes’ to the question ‘Can true love survive the Oval Office?” —THE NEW YORKER • “BLOUNT writes in the grand tradition of such American humorists as MARK TWAIN and WILL ROGERS: he makes us laugh, sure enough, but he also makes us think about what it is we're finding so funny. This novel purports to be about the first poor guy whose wife becomes president (after the incumbent is killed by a fish), but really it’s about what it takes to make a happy marriage. We expect BLOUNT to land some side-splitting right-on-target zingers about how we live life in these United States, but he’s also got some witty and knowing things to say about our lives in the marital state. There’s practically a laugh a page, and like the best of American humor, there’s also something to think about.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL • TITLE 4: “CAMES ARE EASY, COMEDY’S HARD”(VILLARD BOOKS, 1991) (HARDCOVER, First Edition, First Printing) • “A widely varied collection of entertainments. BLOUNT is more pointed and trenchant than ever in this package of reportage, book reviews, poetry…, character sketches, travel writing, and, LORD help us, crossword puzzles. And it’s all terrific.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “Page for page, ROY BLOUNT is as funny as anyone I’ve read in a long time.”—NORMAN MAILER • “The RANDY NEWMAN of American letters.”—DWIGHT GARNER, NEW YORK TIMES • “In the tradition of the great curmudgeons like H.L. MENCKEN and W.C. FIELDS.”—TIME MAGAZINE • “Whatever he’s doing, he gets away with it.” —CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, NEW YORK TIMES • “BLOUNT is, above all, honest. Well, above all, he’s funny, too, and funny people can get away with telling us the hard truth.” —BOSTON GLOBE • “BLOUNT is the best. He can be literate, uncouth and soulful all in one sentence.” —GARRISON KEILLOR • “The one writer who never fails to please.” —VILLAGE VOICE • • For other details about the four books in this lot, please see below. • TITLE 1: “ROY BLOUNT’S BOOK OF SOUTHERN HUMOR” EDITOR: ROY BLOUNT, JR. TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: W.W. NORTON (New York), 1994 EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition” & this Number Row: “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0.” NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 668 ISBN: 0-393-03695-2 CONDITION OF THE DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD. Price ($27.50) is unclipped. There is a half-inch open cut at the top corner of the front; other corners, & spine tips, are bumped. Light wear along edges. DJ is smudged & scratched but still clean & bright. • CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Blue cloth covers are bright & clean. Corners are bumped/scuffed. Spine is tight with bumped tips. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. The pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing (other than the author’s inscription), no underlining, no highlighting, no stains, no rips, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. SIGNING NOTE: Inscribed & signed by the author in black ink on the Title Page as follows: “To The Oxford American—Thanks for publishing my introduction. Good luck across the years, the decades, the ages. ROY BLOUNT.” •• TITLE 2: “NOW, WHERE WERE WE?” AUTHOR: ROY BLOUNT, JR. TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: VILLARD BOOKS (New York), 1988 EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition” & this Number Row: “9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2.” SOURCE: “Villard is a division of Random House which denotes a First Edition/1st Printing by stating ‘First Edition’ below the number line 98765432. Second printings lose the ‘First Edition’ tag and just have the number line ending with 2.” —FIRST EDITION POINTS: THE ONLINE GUIDE FOR RARE BOOK COLLECTORS (WEBSITE) NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 252 ISBN: 0-394-57419-2 CONDITION OF THE DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($17.95) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are bumped. Light wear along edges. DJ is lightly smudged & scratched but still clean & bright. (Now protected in a Gaylord plastic cover.) • CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Coverboards are bright & clean. Corners are bumped. Spine is tight with bumped tips. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. The pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing (other than the author’s inscription), no underlining, no highlighting, no stains, no rips, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. SIGNING NOTE: Inscribed & signed by the author in black ink on the Title Page as follows: “To Marc—I hope you sell more issues of your magazine than I sold of this book. ROY BLOUNT.” ••• TITLE 3: “FIRST HUBBY: A Novel About a Man Who Happens to be Married to the President of the United States” AUTHOR: ROY BLOUNT, JR. TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: VILLARD BOOKS (New York), 1990 EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition” & this Number Row: “9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2.” SOURCE: “Villard is a division of Random House which denotes a First Edition/1st Printing by stating ‘First Edition’ below the number line 98765432. Second printings lose the ‘First Edition’ tag and just have the number line ending with 2.” —FIRST EDITION POINTS: THE ONLINE GUIDE FOR RARE BOOK COLLECTORS (WEBSITE) NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 286 ISBN: 0-394-57420-6 CONDITION OF THE DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($18.95) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are bumped. Light wear along edges. DJ is lightly smudged, creased, & scratched but still clean & bright. (Now protected in a Gaylord plastic cover.) • CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Coverboards are bright & clean, though faintly discolored along the top edges. Corners are bumped. Spine is tight with bumped tips. Fore text-block edges is lightly smudged at the top but edges are otherwise fine. Endpapers are fine. The pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing (other than the author’s inscription), no underlining, no highlighting, no stains, no rips, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. SIGNING NOTE: Inscribed & signed by the author in black ink on the Title Page as follows: “To Marc—I hope this comes in handy if you ever become involved with the White House in any capacity for some reason. ROY BLOUNT.” •••• TITLE 4: “CAMELS ARE EASY, COMEDY’S HARD” AUTHOR: ROY BLOUNT, JR. TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: VILLARD BOOKS (New York), 1991 EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition” & this Number Row: “9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2.” SOURCE: “Villard is a division of Random House which denotes a First Edition/1st Printing by stating ‘First Edition’ below the number line 98765432. Second printings lose the ‘First Edition’ tag and just have the number line ending with 2.” —FIRST EDITION POINTS: THE ONLINE GUIDE FOR RARE BOOK COLLECTORS (WEBSITE) NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 303 ISBN: 0-679-40053-2 CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. (Dust Jacket is missing.) Book is square & firm. Coverboards are bright & clean, though faintly discolored along the top edges. Corners are bumped. Spine is tight with bumped tips. Top text-block edges has a few faint stains; otherwise edges are fine. Endpapers are fine. The pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing (other than the author’s inscription), no underlining, no highlighting, no stains, no rips, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. SIGNING NOTE: Inscribed & signed by the author in black ink on the Title Page as follows: “To Marc—Now all you need is a camel and a whoopee cushion. ROY BLOUNT.” • SHIPPING NEWS: These four books will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a protected & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. 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