New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1991. First Paperback Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. [14], 285, [3] pages. Cartoons by Jeff MacNelly. Inscribed by author on half-title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The author is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist/columnist. Individual columns in this book first appears in the Miami Herald and are used with permission. David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody. In 1981 he wrote a humorous guest column, about watching the birth of his son, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, which attracted the attention of Gene Weingarten. Weingarten hired Barry as a humor columnist in 1983. Barry's column was syndicated nationally. Barry won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988 for "his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns." In a column Barry mocked the cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, for calling themselves the "Grand Cities", Grand Forks named a sewage pumping station after Barry in January 2002. Barry traveled to Grand Forks for the dedication ceremony.

Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University, [1969]. Wraps. 187 pages. Wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. Signed by the author. SIGNED.

Place_Pub: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951. First Printing. 589, illus., appendices, index, some wear to board edges. Inscribed by the author. INSCRIBED.

New York: Hastings House, [1974]. 24 cm, 506, a few pencil and ink marks in text, two pages folded at corner, pencil erasure residue & ink notation on front endpaper.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2002. First Edition. Third Printing. Hardcover. 294 pages. Some wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. SIGNED.

Carbondale, IL: Southern IL University Press, 1974. Hardcover. 166 Pages. DJ spine faded, DJ edges somewhat worn and small tear front DJ, ding lower edge boards and fore-edge. Signed by the author. SIGNED.

New York: Norton, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 24 cm, 279 pages. Illus. Inscribed by the author. INSCRIBED.

New York: Random House, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 361, illus., slight wear and soiling to DJ, erasure residue on front endpaper, red mark on top edge.

New York: Simon & Schuster, c1995. First Printing. 25 cm, 514, illus., index, front DJ flap price clipped, some soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author. INSCRIBED.

New York: Simon & Schuster, c1995. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 514 pages. Illus., index, slight creasing to DJ edges. Bookplate signed by the author ("Ben Bradlee"). SIGNED.

New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 452, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Author's Note. Index. Lengthy, dated inscription to journalist Matt Schaeffer of WBCN Radio Boston by the author on the fep along with handwritten thank you note for the interview laid in. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Marie Brenner (born December 15, 1949) is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair. She has also written for New York, The New Yorker and the Boston Herald and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Her Vanity Fair article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", inspired the 1999 movie The Insider, starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. She was the first female baseball columnist covering the American League, traveling with the Boston Red Sox for the Boston Herald during the 1979 season.

New York: A. A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. 25 cm, 273, illus., address sticker inside front board, ink notation inside front flyleaf.

New York: Viking Press, 1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 319, DJ somewhat soiled, some wear to DJ edges The author was a reporter for the Washington Post and Life Magazine.