Richard Lederer's Books

I am always delighted to provide signed copies of any of my books, inscribed according to your instructions, as gifts to family, friends, or yourself. In their reviews, such illuminati as Sidney Sheldon and Robert Fulghum have penned warm words about my words about words.

For the Holidays

• Presidential Trivia: The Feats, Fates, Families, Foibles, and Firsts of Our American Presidents (Gibbs Smith). Hundreds of intriguing firsts, mosts, onlys, patterns, and quizzes about our presidents, vice presidents, and first ladies. You’ll have fun learning a lot about their lives (even their medical records and their pets), their accomplishments, and their roles in American history. Trade paperback @ $11.00.
  

• Presidential Trivia (Pomegranate) page-a-day calendar @ $14.

• Puns Spooken Here (Wyrick). A gift book of lore and word play about Halloween @ $8.50

• Have Yourself A Punny Little Christmas (Wyrick). A gift book of lore and word play about Christmas @ $8.50.

• Anguished English 365-Day 2008 Calendar (Pomegranate) A blooper-a-day for 2008 @ $12.00.

Humor

• Anguished English (Wyrick). The largest selling language bloopers book ever. ( edition) Trade paperback @ $11.00.

• More Anguished English (Dell). The sequel to Anguished English and almost twice as large. Mass paperback @ $7.50.

• Fractured English (Pocket Books). Jam packed with fluffs and flubs and goofs and gaffes. Trade paperback @ $14.00.

• The Bride of Anguished English (St. Martin's Press). A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos. Book of the Month Club. Handsome hardcover @ $25.00. Trade paperback @ $14.00.

• The Revenge of Anguished English How the innocent, the negligent, and the pompous mangle the English language. (Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club). Hardcover @ $26.00.

• The Cunning Linguist (St. Martin's Press). 300 pages of good, clean, dirty word play for appreciative punographers. Trade paperback @ $14.00.

• The Ants Are My Friends (Marion Street Press), with Stan Kegel. A concert of musical punchlines. Trade paperback @ $14.00.

• The Giant Book of Animal Jokes: Beastly Humor for Grownups (Stone & Scott) with James D. Ertner. From "aardvark" beyond "zebra," the largest collection of animal jokes (4,509 to be exact) ever assembled. Trade paperback @$20.00

• Get Thee To a Punnery (Wyrick). The International Punster of the Year challenges you to sharpen your pun cells. ( edition) Trade paperback @ $11.00.

Language

• Word Wizard: Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic (St. Martin's Griffin): A career-capping anthology of my best and most popular essays. Trade paperback @ $14.00.

• Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation with John Shore (St. Martin's Press). A hilarious and comprehensive treatment of the rules for American punctuation. Hardcover @ $24.00. ( edition) Trade Paperback, $14.00

• Crazy English (Pocket Books). How is it that your nose can run and your feet can smell? Oxymorons, eponyms, anagrams, and much more. Trade paperback version @ $14.00.

• A Man of My Words (St. Martin's Press) Career-capping reflections on the English language. Trade paperback @ $14.00.

• Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay (and That's No Lie) with Richard Dowis (St. Martin's Press). Practical advice for the grammatically challenged. Hardcover @ $24.00/Trade paperback @ $14.00

• The Word Circus (Merriam-Webster). Making the alphabet dance with anagrams, palindromes, and a dozen other kinds of letter play. 386 brilliant illustrations, 77 poems, and much more. Hardcover @ $16.00.

• The Miracle of Language (Pocket Books). A luminous exploration of the English language and the writers who shaped it @ $14.00.

• The Write Way, with Richard Dowis (Pocket Books). A concise guide to real-life writing, usage, spelling, and punctuation. Trade paperback @ $14.00.

• The Play of Words (Pocket Books). A wide variety of educational word games. Trade paperback @ $14.00.

For Children

• The Circus of Words (Chicago Review Press). Inside this Big Top of word fun, children 10-14 will delight in the in-tents fun of amazing anagrams, parading palindromes, and many other forms of letter play. Trade paperback $14.00.

• Pun and Games (Chicago Review Press). Challenging and entertaining word play for children 9-13 years of age. Trade paperback @ $11.00.

Puzzles and Games

• Merriam-Webster's Word Play Crosswords, with Gayle Dean. A sprightly collection of 50 crossword puzzles that award-winning constructor Gayle Dean and I have created. All the puzzles are themed, and many of the clues involve word- or letter-play. Trade paperback $13.00.

• Literary Trivia is a book of fun and games for book lovers. In sections on authors' lives, works and titles repose stories and posers that expand one's literary literacy, from Chaucer to Harry Potter. Mass Market paperback @ $8.50.

• Classic Literary Trivia is an entertaining and informative way for you to strengthen your knowledge of our three mightiest sources of thought and reference -- the Bible, Greek mythology, and William Shakespeare. Mass Market paperback @ $8.50.

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