Titles To Make You Smile: Purple Prose



Purple and fine women / by Edgar Saltus ; with an introduction by W. L. George. -- Chicago : Covici, 1925.
ACX0557 / 813.4 .S17pw / Green Library - Stacks.

The purple cow and other poems / written and illustrated by Gelett Burgess. -- Pasadena, Calif. : Castle Press, 1968.
AFD2588 / PS3503 .U7 P89 1895 / Special Collections - Felton.

Flash Gordon. The purple death from outer space [videorecording] / King Features. -- Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, c2002.
a4766542 / ZDVD 3622 / Green Library - Media Microtext.

Purple dust a wayward comedy in three acts / by Sean O'Casey. -- London : Macmillan, 1940.
AKC7413 / 822.7 .O15pu / Green Library - Stacks.

The purple heart throbs : the sub-literature of love / Rachel Anderson. -- London : Hodder and Stoughten, [1974].
AEE4720 / PN56 .L6 A8 / Green Library - Stacks.

The purple parrot : a Theocritus Lucius Westborough story / by Clyde B. Clason. -- 1st ed. -- Garden City, N.Y. : Pub. for the Crime Club, by Doubleday, Doran, 1937.
ADG6617 / 8923 .C614 P8 / Stanford Auxiliary Library 3.

The Purple renoster. -- No. 1- Sept. 1956- . Nendeln, Liechtenstein : Kraus Reprint, 1974- .
ACA8378 / PR9845 .P87 / Green Library - Stacks.

Purple violet squish / David Wilkerson. -- Grand Rapids : Zondervan Pub. House, [1969].
AAL5487 / BV4470 .W5 / Stanford Auxiliary Library - Stacks.

--submitted by Geoffrey Skinner


Originally published in SUL News Notes, Volume 4, Number 15, April 14, 1995. 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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