Titles To Make You Smile: More Silly Records



A Strange and true relation of the prodigious multitude of mice that have destroyed the plants, herbs, and grasse between Rotterdam and Schedam : likewise infesting their houses and chambers insomuch that the inhabitants thereof are in despair of their security : wherein you will find a philosophical and historical relation concerning the generation of those vermine and some prognosticks raised there-from : as also an account how Dengy hundred in Essex hath been formerly infested with an incredible number of mice, and how it was freed after a miraculous manner, as it was communicated to a person of qualitie by a letter from a merchant living in Rotterdam / Eugenius Anonymus. -- [London : s.n.], 1670..
AGJ9824 / MFILM 015 4 1342:4 / Green Library - Media Microtext.

The Stinky cheeseman and other fairly stupid tales / Jon Scieszka ; illustrated by Land Smith. -- New York : Viking, 1992.
FFV9040 LC / PZ8 .S3134 St 1992 / Library of Congress.

Cowboys : a spoof for 4 percussion and 3 bad guys [score] / Larry Spivak. -- N.Y.C. : Lang Percussion, c1975.
"For trio on 1 marimba, offstage horses' hooves, and 3 bad guys."
AKB4190 / M1520 .S761 C8 / Music Library.

--submitted by Brian Kunde and Tatiana Barr

Alfred A. Knopf at 60, September 12, 1952 -- [Norwood, Mass.] : Priv. print. [1952].
"Edition ... of 250 copies for presentation only ... designed by W. A. Dwiggins. The composition and printing were done by The Plimpton Press."
Subjects: Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-
     %PRIN797 Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.
     %PRIN796 Feihhind, Eillism Sffidon, 1880-1956.
ALC2912 / Z473 .K72 A38 / Green Library - Special Collections.

Please note the last subject (i.e., %PRIN796 Feihhind, Eillism Sffidon, 1880-1956). A Recon inputter input the name exactly as it was on the catalog card. He assumed that this person was of Finnish or Welsh extraction in order to have come by this name. It turns out, however, that the cataloger misplaced his/her left hand on the typewriter and didn't check his/her work. The real name is Dwiggins, William Addison.

--Submitted by the Trvon Hotillsd (aka Recon Gorillas)


Originally published in SUL News Notes, July 10, 1992. These titles reflect the compiler's notions of the humorous, wry, ironic or unusual, and should not be construed as reflecting any other opinion or judgment, including the editorial opinion of the original publisher.



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