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Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx
Booksplease Price: $43.04This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling Harpo or perhaps his collaborator is the best writer of... -
Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx 9781774645123
Booksplease Price: $26.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774645123Author Harpo MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint -
Groucho and Me: The Autobiography by Groucho Marx
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.69'The temptation to write about yourself is irresistible, especially when you are prodded into it by a crafty publisher who has slyly baited you into doing it with a miserly advance of fifty dollars... -
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence Lee Siegel 9780300244540
Booksplease Price: $25.04A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be... -
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.39In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into... -
1000 Unforgettable Senior Moments by Tom Friedman 9780761140764 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $2.38"1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments in History", of which we could remember only 249, is filled with excruciatingly embarrassing and totally true stories of major mental lapses and famous acts of... -
Speaking of Harpo by Susan Fleming Marx
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $39.88Susan Fleming appeared in three Broadway shows and twenty-eight films before she turned her back on a show business career she never really enjoyed or wanted. The role of her lifetime came when she... -
Picturehouse Poems: Poems About the Movies Harold Schechter 9781841598147
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston... -
Son of Harpo Speaks! by Bill Marx 9781557837905
Booksplease Price: $32.26Bill Marx is the last living person to have worked professionally with the three Marx Brothers his uncles Chico and Groucho and his father Harpo Marx. Because Chico and Groucho had siblings that... -
Sharko and Hippo by Elliott Kalan
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.32With tongue-twisty wordplay and escalating absurdity, this is a fall-down-funny farce that will surprise and delight readers-from television comedy writer Elliott Kalan and acclaimed illustrator... -
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin... -
Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist by Julien Gorbach
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $41.72Ben Hecht had seen his share of death-row psychopaths, crooked ward bosses, and Capone gun thugs by the time he had come of age as a crime reporter in gangland Chicago. His grim experience with what... -
Animals Aloft!: Photographs from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by Allan Janus
RRP: $37.91Booksplease Price: $31.83The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's archives are world-renowned, but few might suspect that among over a million and a half photographs of airplanes, spacecraft, and famous aviators, the...