being a Bumper Volume containing "The Book of Insults Ancient and Modern" and "The Second Book of Insults"

London, Book Club Associates, 1982 hbk with dj, 132p. dj has some spotting as do endpapers and edges of pages spine of dj is faded and has a wrinkle otherwise in very good condition.

This is a light-hearted collection of literary and historical insults in an entertaining arrangement that will delight the casual reader and serve as a useful, if dangerous, work of reference. Nearly 1,000 derogatory quotations encompass virtually all aspects of the human condition, and range in tone from the venomous to the merely bitchy.