Category: Humour

Cartoons From "Punch" Volume III

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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The Deeper Meaning of Liff - a dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet

By: Adams, Douglas & Lloyd, John

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Pan Books : 1990

Seller ID: 018382

ISBN-13: 9780330316064

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with drawings by Bert Kitchen, octavo, pp xxx, 146, very clean internally, black cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is just very slightly worn, with a small closed tear on its lower cover..
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The Art of Satire - London in Caricature

By: Bills, Mark

Price: £32.50

Publisher: London, Museum of London & Philip Wilson Publishers : 2006

Seller ID: 017136

ISBN-13: 9780904818543

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 228, paperback, a very brught clean copy throughout, virtually as new. [Includes illustrations from the collection of satirical and caricature images in the Museum of London, it encompasses research and uses historical and literary sources to place the satire of London in the context of English satire as a whole. Catalogue of an exhibition, Satirical London, held at the Museum of London, April-September 2006.]
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The Gardener's Year

By: Capek, Karel

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd : 1946

Seller ID: 019644

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Thirteenth impression, quirkily illustrated by Josef Capek, small octavo, pp 160, a tiny image on the front endpaper, otherwise clean internally, faded green boards slightly worn and creased, the spine age-toned and rubbedl. [An amusing minor classic !].
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Pigs I Have Known

By: Carnegie, Sacha

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, The Country Book Club : 1960

Seller ID: 017382

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated wih line drawings by Anne Gordon, small octavo, pp 254, fore-edge a little foxed, otherwise clean internally, green cloth, a little worn, marked and faded. SCARCE.
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Abbie and Arthur

By: Chandos, Dane (three writers: Peter Lilley, Nigel Millett, Anthony Stansfield)

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph : 1971

Seller ID: 017492

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Small octavo, pp 208, very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper (by Broom Lynne) is price-clipped, slightly rubbed around the edges, the lower cover slightly age-toned. Overall a very pleasing copy.
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Biography for beginners, being a collection of miscellaneous examples for the use of the upper forms

By: Clerihew, E. (= E.C. Bentley]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie

Seller ID: 017951

Binding: Soft Cloth

Condition: Fair

Popular edition, not dated (c.1910 ?). Illustrated with cartoon drawings by Chesterton, quarto, not paginated (c.90 pages), a little used and marked internally, soft green cloth, a little used, the rear cover marked.
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Image for Hermippus redivivus: or, The sage's triumph over old age and te grave, wherein, a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed

Hermippus redivivus: or, The sage's triumph over old age and te grave, wherein, a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed

By: Cohausen, Johann Heinrich

Price: £200.00

Publisher: The Lamb, against Catherine Street in the Strand, J. Nourse : 1749

Seller ID: 018338

Binding: Quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

Small octavo, pp [viii], 248, slightly age-toned but remarkably clean internally, bound in an unusual later binding, probably late Victorian, quarter morocco and cloth, slightly worn and marked. [Cohausen {1665-1750} was a physician and well-known author in Germany, France, and England . He was best known for medical satire such as the Pica Nasi, a Latin parody on snuff in which Apollo ordered Mercury to confiscate the noses of snuff-takers. When the satyrs returned them, the desperate victims grabbed the wrong noses and were unrecognizable. Cohausen?s last and most famous medical satire, his ...
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Octopi, and Other Beasts Less Rude.

By: Costa, Elsa

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Private printing

Seller ID: 000073

Binding: Paperback

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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Thomas

By: Creswell, H.B.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber : 1948

Seller ID: 017493

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Small octavo, pp 260, clean and sound internally, blue cloth very slightly marked, the dustwrappe is price-clipped, a bit worn and creased with several tiny pieces missing, stretched but now preserved in a removable clear cover.
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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

Binding: Cloth

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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Mr Tompkins in Wonderland, or, Stories of c, G, and h

By: Gamow, G.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press : 1939

Seller ID: 018469

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated by John Hookham, large octavo, pp x, 91, endpapers slightly marked, otherwise clean internally, brown cloth dull and marked. [ George Gamow, {1904 - 1968}, was a Soviet & American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory. In his middle and late career, Gamow directed much of his attention to teaching and wrote popular books on science, including the Mr Tompkins series of books, 1939-1967. Throughout these books, Mr Tompkins is introduced as "C. G. H. Tompkins" to emphasize the notion of cGh physics. The ...
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Mr Tompkins in Wonderland, or, Stories of c, G, and h

By: Gamow, G.

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press : 1939

Seller ID: 018564

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated by John Hookham, large octavo, pp x, 91, endpapers slightly marked, otherwise clean internally, brown cloth dull and marked, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and rather worn chipped and frayed. [George Gamow, {1904 - 1968}, was a Soviet & American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory. In his middle and late career, Gamow directed much of his attention to teaching and wrote popular books on science, including the Mr Tompkins series of books, 1939-1967. Throughout these books, Mr Tompkins is introduced...
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The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship -the first part of an autobiography

By: Green, Michael

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann : 1988

Seller ID: 016672

ISBN-13: 9780434304127

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 232, very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is a little scuffed on the lower cover but has only the slightest signs of use. A very good copy.
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Muddy Oxbows

By: Hendy, Phil

Price: £3.75

Publisher: Wells, Mendip Publishing : 1978

Seller ID: 014529

ISBN-13: 9780905903095

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with cartoons, small slim octavo, pp 64, paperback, a good clean copy. [Postage will be reduced]
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In His Own Write

By: Lennon, John

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape : 1964

Seller ID: 019765

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

First edition. Illustrated, small square octavo, pp 78, the very odd faint blemish internally, the endpapers lightly marked from sellotape, pictorial boards with just the slightest signs of use and the tiniest signs wear to the corners..
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The Highlander in Anecdote and Story

By: Maclennan, Roderick

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Stirling, Eneas Mackay : 1905

Seller ID: 014708

Binding: Cloth

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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Pub - A Celebration

By: McGill, Angus

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd : 1969

Seller ID: 017459

ISBN-13: 9780582101210

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Small octavo, a very few illustrations, pp (4), 242, (3), the rear blank page has a small mark, a tiny owner's name on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, red cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper , by Osbert Lancaster, is price-clipped, slightly age-toned and very slightly worn. But overall still a very attractive copy.
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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-13: 9780952146155

Binding: Paperback

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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My Dear Camilla

By: Saxon, Ellen

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press : 1999

Seller ID: 017462

ISBN-13: 9780533093243

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Small octavo, pp (2), 121, exceptionally clean internally, black cloth in fine condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it has the very faintest fade on the upper cover otherwise very good indeed. SCARCE. [A presentation copy with signed inscription on the title page].
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Category: Humour

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