Saints Alive MAD Dictionary for Yankees Bil Dwyer books REUBEN SCHAFER 1920 1972

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1 NOW SHOW ME YOUR BELLY BUTTON, REUBEN SCHAFER AND KEN BORDEN, 1967, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MESSAGE FROM PIERRE BERTON

In all the earnest studies produced for Canada’s Centenary, we Canadians seem to have overlooked one basic ingredient. We may be good humoured, but we have failed to see the humour in ourselves. And that is passing strange when you consider that on Parliament Hill we have been treated to the longest running comic revue in history. Fortunately we have Messrs. Schafer and Borden around to draw the matter to our attention. In the midst of all the solemn Centennial fanfarade they have brought a note of nutty irreverence to our birthday celebrations. The irreverence begins with the title, which, even before publication, had caused hackles to rise from Burgeo to Zeballos. No satirist could have concoct- ed a script as goofy as the one that wrote itself after the title was announced. A famous publisher, noted for his tolerance of four-letter words and four- letter situations in slim books of poesy and fat autobiographical novels, recoil- ed at the idea of putting the word “belly- button” on the cover. He suggested replacing this awful, un-Canadian word with the acceptable substitute “navel”. To their undying credit the authors resisted; that is why they are publishing the book themselves. y et bellybutton is a perfectly good and acceptable English dictionary word -colorful, explicit, metaphoric. Twenty years before Lady Chatterly’s Lover became standard drug store fare, H~ Allen Smith devoted an entire chapter of a best seller to his quest for bellybutton lint suitable for stuffing pillows. There wasn’t a squeak of protest. Yet here in Canada we find a leading hotel girlishly refusing to billboard the word in con- nection with a press party; while the Harold King Farm Foundation (which gets 25% of the book’s royalties) has been peppered with protesting calls from citizens who have, apparently, never seen a bikini. ./ Well I, for one am delighted to be connected, if only through a preface, with a book which dares in this sacred year to call a bellybutton a bellybutton and poke fun at a few sacred cows. Hooray for Reub Schafer and Ken Borden! Hooray for those good sports, Mike Pearson and John Diefenbaker and all those other thousand clowns who grace these pages! This is a book worthy to be placed in bank corner- stones and lodged in time capsules. It is the only evidence extant that, back in 1967, not everybody took the country all that seriously.

NO WRITING, BINDING IS INTACT, there is some shelf wear and corner dings

2 DICTIONARY FOR YANKEES AND OTHER UNEDUCATED PEOPLE BOOKLET… COMPILED AND CARTOONED BY BIL DWYER, 1971… SECTION ONE CORRECT DEFINITIONS FOR WORDS MOST OFTEN MISUSED BY NORTHERN FRIENDS. SECTION TWO 900 AUTHENTIC WORDS OF SOUTHERN HIGHLAND A N D COASTAL DIALECT ENGLISH. SECTION THREE A WHOLE MESS OF SOUTHERN SUPERSTITIONS CAREFULLY…used, pages are intact, shows some shelf wear

3 Saints Alive, cartoon book… Margaret Caroll, 1956, 70 pages… Amusing one page cartoons set around a religious school… Condition: title page had stuck to the first page and there are 2 tears, binding is intact with no loose pages, no writing, covers are grubby and a show ageing – see photo

4 Mad More snappy answers to stupid questions Al Jaffee, 187 pages, binding is intact with no loose pages, some pages have writing in the section for additional “snappy” answers to be written but all text is completely legible, page 117 has a 2in horizontal tear, see photos

5 Oh, No! Book, Milt Rappoport, 1956 paperback cover,

golf instruction, 64 pages, with 10 perforated pull out cards… First printing of this paperback original. Foreword by Byron Nelson. Interesting, non-technical golf instruction from the 1950s — when suburban Dads were taking up the game in droves.

Complete with detachable wallet size instruction cards that you can pull out at a crucial moment.. used, pages are intact, shows some shelf wear

6 Newfie Jokes, Bob Tulk, 5th printing 1972

Paper wraps, staples are tight and intact with no loose pages, no writing, no rips no tears, spine edge a little sunfaded

7 The Line’s Busy! book Albert Edward Ullman 1920

Frederick A. Stokes Company, The Ryerson Press., Toronto, 122 pages

Written as letters by a switchboard operator and the antics of overheard conversations with black and white drawings

no rips, no tears, binding is intact with no loose pages, previous owner name quill penned, spine is missing top half with the bottom half detached but included
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