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Swank - the Gentle Art of Kidding- Being the Inner Mystery of the Art of Kidding, as Now Set Forth for the First Time in the King's English.

By: N/A

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Success Publishing Company Ltd.:

Seller ID: 001037

(TITLE CONTINUES : Written by one Who has Made it his Special Study, Who has Found it Pay where Ordinary Brains Failed to Impress, and Who now Wishes to Impart his Knowledge to the Great Army of Incompetents all Over the World.) Small 8vo, pp 96, in pictorial wrappers, undated (circa 1920's), copy has some wear and browning, some small tears and creasing to wrappers, part of "Political Humbug" sticker attached to front of wrappers, some small tears and nicks to fore-edges, corners worn, spine lacking a small piece at base. [Author not attributed but satirical analysis of how to "sw...
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Cartoons From "Punch" Volume III

By: N/A

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd: 1906

Seller ID: 009402

Condition: Fair

Very well illustrated with many full page cartoons, large quarto, pp 500, very slightly worn internally, standard red half leather, a bit marked, spine very oxidised, and lacking small portions at the head and base.
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Octopi, and Other Beasts Less Rude.

By: Costa, Elsa

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Private printing:

Seller ID: 000073

Condition: Good

Octavo, pp (36), original buff sewn wrappers, a little chipped and browned. A book of (only slightly !) risque poems. Privately printed, presumably in Italy as the cover price is 100 lire. A note on the rear flap states "For broad-minded adults only. A limited edition of this remarkable book, which will be published shortly in New York and London". (n.d. c.1920?)
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Look Back With Laughter. Book One.

By: Craig, Mike

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Manchester, Private printing: 1996

Seller ID: 011551

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp viii, 204, paperback, very slight signs of wear. [This was actually Alan Titchmarsh's copy, though it does not have his bookplate. There is, however, an inscription on the title page - "To the Yorkshire Man of the Year, from the Batley lad of the century ! Mike Craig, 17.10.97".]
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Image for English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they illustrated and Interpreted their Times. A Contribution to the History of Caricature from the Time of the First Napoleon Down to the Death of John Leech, in 1864

English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they illustrated and Interpreted their Times. A Contribution to the History of Caricature from the Time of the First Napoleon Down to the Death of John Leech, in 1864

By: Everitt, Graham

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.: 1893

Seller ID: 014781

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, large thick octavo, pp xx, 427, some foxing throughout, bookplate of Walter William Brodie, front and rear hinges cracking very slightly but still very sound, blue cloth, gilt decorations, slightly worn and rubbed, the spine spotted, slightly bruised at the base, slightly torn at the head.
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Muddy Oxbows

By: Hendy, Phil

Price: £3.75

Publisher: Wells, Mendip Publishing: 1978

Seller ID: 014529

ISBN: 0905903099

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with cartoons, small slim octavo, pp 64, paperback, a good clean copy. [Postage will be reduced]
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The Highlander in Anecdote and Story

By: Maclennan, Roderick

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Stirling, Eneas Mackay: 1905

Seller ID: 014708

Condition: Good

Small octavo, illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates, pp 192, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, a little used internally, several thumb-marks and light stains, green blind-stamped cloth, rubbed and a little worn, slightly marked. RARE. [Mainly light and humerous short tales.]
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I, Flook: an autobiography with drawings by Trog

By: Melly, George

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co Ltd: 1962

Seller ID: 014543

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with cartoons, large 12mo, pp (6), 85, very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly age-toned. A remarkably good copy. [Flook was a British comic strip which ran from 1949 to 1984 in the Daily Mail newspaper. It was drawn by Wally Fawkes (of the jazz group Wally Fawkes and the Troglodytes), who signed the strips as "Trog". The central characters were a young boy called Rufus and his magical animal friend, Flook. According to the strip 'The Coming of Flook', which forms part of the cartoon book Rufus and Flook v. Moses Maggot, we learn that Flook, who vaguely rese...
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A Rhyming Alphabet of Medicinal Plants

By: Oakeley, Henry

Price: £2.99

Publisher: Beckenham, Henry Oakeley: 2016

Seller ID: 012645

ISBN: 0952146150

Condition: New

Illustrated, slim square octavo, pp 42, paperback. NEW. ["An A to Z of rhymes (witty) and wisdom (useful) on medicinal plants and people. Beautiful 16th & 17th century woodcuts (some rude). A perfect present."]. J is for juniper, it's used to flavour gin, an aid to disinhibition and faciliating sin. R is for ranunculus, it always causes smiles, for the knobbly rootstock, was used to cure one's piles.
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The Anxious Gardener

By: Parker, Rozsika

Price: £3.00

Publisher: London, Frances Lincoln Limited: 2006

Seller ID: 016106

ISBN: 0711226636

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small octavo, pp 159, a very good copy in a slightly worn and faded dustwrapper. [In The Anxious Gardener Rozsika Parker wittily addresses the worries evoked by a series of gardening tasks over the course of a year. Each episode involves a dialogue between the Anxious Gardener and the Gardening Mentor, who offers practical solutions to the Anxious Gardener's dilemmas. A third voice, belonging to Maud-Next-Door, dispenses understanding and envy in unequal measure through the latticework of trellis surrounding the flowerbeds. The result is a unique and witty exploration of the emo...
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Off the Leash - Memoirs of a Royal Corgi

By: Sturgis, Matthew (as told to)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1995

Seller ID: 011392

ISBN: 0340634147

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with cartoons, small slim 8vo, pp 98, slight age-toning round the margins, presentation inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise clean internally, pictorial boards very slightly worn.
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Stories From the Shed (sequel to Blokes and Sheds)

By: Thomson, Mark (ed)

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1996

Seller ID: 005433

ISBN: 0207190704

A few illustrations, long horizontal 8vo, pp 160, paperback, very slightly worn, upper cover slightly creased.
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Piccadilly Jim (early edition, c.1922)

By: Wodehouse, P.G.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Herbert Jenkins Limited:

Seller ID: 014169

Condition: Good

[Not dated, c.1922]. Octavo, pp 316, slightly age-toned, a couple of pages slightly weak at the inner margin so that they protrude on the fore-edge very slightly, green cloth very slightly worn, upper cover a little dust-marked, very slightly worn at the head and tail of the spine. [The date has been established with two clues. There is a contemporary signature on the front endpaper dated 3.8.22. Also, the list of the author's books facing the title page ends with "A Damsel in Distress" which was first published in 1922.] Early editions of this title are quite uncommon.{Piccadilly ...
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