In a grand and awful time : essays from the librarian's desk on twentieth century man and his books / William Hugh Carlson. -- Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [1967].
ADL0648 / Z665 .C25 / Green Library - Stacks.

A woman has an awful lot to thank a whale for / Frank Finney. -- [New York] : Warner Brothers Co., [1909].
AKN5603 / MFILM N.S. 1508 no. 5801 / Green Library - Microtext.

Every man his own fattener, or, The complete art of making lean people grow fat, made easy to the meanest capacity : with an appendix on fly-catching and taking snuff in the true English style / by Soloman Dismallo Thickscullo Cephalico ; together with notes ... by Nick Bottom. -- New-York : Published for the author, 1809.
AEY2146 / MPRINT 3 no. 17178 / Green Library - Microtext.

The fat boy goes poly-unsaturated / Elmer Wheeler. -- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1963.
LL50989 / U237.9 .W56 1963 / Lane Library.

The kitten that grew too fat / Clara V. Winlow. -- Philadelphia : Macrae Smith, [c1929].
AKK1964 / P27 .W72 K5 1929 / Green Library - Special Collections.

--submitted by Brian Kunde

Originally published in SUL News Notes, Volume 2, Number 14, April 9, 1993. 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.