There Are Alligators in Our Sewers & Other American Credos, Paul Dickson & Joseph C. Goulden, 1983-4

BOOK COVER REVIEW : There Are Alligators in Our Sewers & Other American Credos
An outrageous collection of bunk, nonsense, and fables we believe. Paul Dickson & Joseph C. Goulden, Illustrated by R.J. Shay, 1983, 1984, Dell.

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