Super Mario Bros. 3, a book by Alyse Knorr, is about the history of the 1990 platformer of the same name. Grabbing Pussy, by Karen Finley, is a provocative collection of poetry and prose examining “the psychosexual obsessions that have burst to the surface of today’s American politics.”
But in one hell of a delivery-room switcheroo, somehow the cover for Knorr’s book was printed on Finley’s tome, and that was shipped to Nintendo fans expecting to learn more about the Mushroom Kingdom, and we don’t mean the one in Donald Trump’s trousers either (rimshot).
Publisher Boss Fight Books tweeted about the humorous mixup today after some Amazon customers buying Knorr’s book ended up with the swaperoo. Evidently Boss Fight and Knorr’s publisher (OR Books) share the same printer. Boss Fight said that both books “had the exact same page count, paper type and specs, and they were right in line next to each other.”
Twitter user brango kango was one of the lucky customers, and shared these images, which include a selection (see the last image) about the disgraced and unfortunately named ex-congressman Anthony Weiner.
This is one whopper of a printing error, @BossFightBooks pic.twitter.com/SHPPuYmyRR
— brango krango (@brandokay) November 5, 2018
Well alrighty then!
Boss Fight says anywhere from two to 100 misprinted books may have been shipped; the company is checking with its printer to see “just how many of these rogue books exist.” Anyone wanting to be sure they get Super Mario Bros. 3 by Alyse Knorr should order directly from Boss Fight for the time being.
On the other hand ...
And if you want a RARE LIMITED EDITION anti-Trump poetry collection with a Super Mario cover, maybe pick up a book from Amazon and see if you get lucky! One of the two customers started reading, said the poems were good :)
— Boss Fight Books (@BossFightBooks) November 7, 2018