Burling Compiler Lowrey (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ivory cloth boards with an orange and a pink jester on face and silver lettering on spine. Gold end papers. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean throughout. The dust jacket has been clipped and is within a protective mylar sleeve. An anthology. This collection of parodies of major twentieth century writers takes the reader on a witty excursion into an art that is one of the most difficult to execute, and, when done well, is truly memorable.…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Good+ dj. Book is in VG- to G+ condition with slight darkening to the spine. DJ is rubbed along the spine with light chipping.

Hardback. Condition: Good/Good Dj. 1st Edition. 8vo Errata Slip tipped in at title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 304 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Ellen Raskin. With an introduction by Nathaniel Benchley. Errata slip attached to the title page correcting the authorship of a Mel Brooks piece. Parodies of fiction and non-fiction, dramas, and literary criticism by Max Beerbohm, Robert Benchley, Cyril Connolly, Peter De Vries, John Updike, Woolcott Gibbs, S.J. Perelman, Edmond Wilson, Frank Sullivan, Richard Mallett, John Updike and James Thurber. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. Raskin, Ellen (illustrator).…