Thanks to Stephen Volz for pointing out that there are other titles by the author of Twisted tales from Shakespeare written in the same vein, one of which should be of particular interest to librarians. Records for it and other, less serious Armour works held by SUL follow.

The happy bookers : a playful history of librarians and their world from the stone age to the distant future / Richard Armour ; with appropriate ill. by Campbell Grant. -- New York : McGraw-Hill, c1976.
AEH6119 / Z721 .A795 / Stanford Auxiliary Library 3.

The Academic bestiary / Richard Armour ; illustrated by Paul Darrow. -- [New York] : Morrow, [1975].
ADV8596 / LA227.3 .A75 / Stanford Auxiliary Library.

American lit relit, a short history of American literature for long-suffering students, for teachers who manage to keep one chapter ahead of the class, and for all those who, no longer being in school, can happily sink back into illiteracy / Richard Armour ; with illustrious illus. by Campbell Grant. -- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1964].
AEH2694 / PS138 .A7 / Green Library Stacks.

The classics reclassified, in which certain famous books are not so much digested as indigested, together with mercifully brief biographies of their authors, a few unnecessary footnotes and questions which it might be helpful not to answer / Richard Armour ; nostalgically illustrated by Campbell Grant. -- New York : McGraw-Hill, [c1960].
ADS5112 / PS3501 .R55 C55 / Green Library Stacks.

For partly proud parents; light verse about children / Richard Armour ; with an introd. by Phyllis McGinley, drawings by Leo Hershfield. -- New York : Harper, [1950].
AEM6756 / PS3501 .R55 F6 / Green Library Stacks.

Going around in academic circles; a low view of higher education / Richard Armour ; with illus. by Leo Hershfield. -- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1965].
AEH4501 / LB2326 .A85 / Cubberley Library.

It all started with Columbus, being an unexpurgated, unabridged, and unlikely history of the United States from Christopher Columbus to the present for those who, having perused a volume of history in school, swore they would never read another / Richard Armour ; lavishly illustrated by Campbell Grant. -- New York : Bantam Books, 1963.
AQN3627 / PS648 .H84 V.600 / Special Collections - Rare Books.

It all started with Europa; being an undigested history of Europe from prehistoric man to the present, proving that we remember best whatever is least important / Richard Armour ; with appropriately absurd illus. by Campbell Grant. -- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1955].
AFQ4308 / 940 .A733 / Stanford Auxiliary Library 3.

Light Armour; playful poems on practically everything / Richard Armour ; illus. by Leo Hershfield. -- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1954].
AFX6873 / 811.4. A736La / Stanford Auxiliary Library 3.

My life with women; confessions of a domesticated male / Richard Armour ; illustrated by Leo Hershfield. -- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1968].
ACV8078 / PS3501 .R55 Z5 / Green Library Stacks.

Out of my mind / Richard Armour. -- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1972].
AHK8323 / PS3501 .R55 O84 / Green Library Stacks.

A safari into satire / Richard Armour. -- [Berkeley?, Calif.] : California Library Association, 1961.
AFX6872 / 811.4 .A736ss / Stanford Auxiliary Library 3.

--submitted by Brian Kunde

Originally published in SUL News Notes, Volume 1, Number 28, July 17, 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.