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[12768] Abelman, Paul. Dad's Army : The Defence of a Front Line English
Village edited by Arthur Wilson, M.A.. London: BBC, 1989. First Edition.
Hardback. Fine. No d/w as issued. ISBN: 0563208503. Ilustrated. No inscriptions.
Pictorial laminated boards. £4.00
[10670] Anglund, Joan Walsh. A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You. London: Collins,
1962. 7th impression. Hardback. Very Good Unpaginated. Illustrated by the
author. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Original green cloth. £3.00
[8697] Anon. Klothildes Memoiren. Hamburg: A. Martin, Paperback. Very Good 96pp.
Cartoons. Covers rubbed. £6.00
[9934] Barker, Ronnie. Sauce . London: Coronet/Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. First
Thus. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0340230967. 4to. 128pp. Cheeky Pictures Jocular
Jest and Racy Rhymes of days gone by illustrated in colour and black and white.
No inscriptions. £4.00
[962] Bentley, E. Clerihew. More Biography. London: Methuen, 1929. First
Edition. Hardback.. Good. No dustwrapper. 4to. x, 108pp. Illustrated by G.K.
Chesterton,Victor Reiganum, Nicolas Bentley and E.C. Bentley. No inscriptions.
Quarter beige cloth, spare spine label, boards marked/rubbed o/w VG. £6.00
[963] Bentley, E. Clerihew. Baseless Biography. London: Constable, 1939. First
Edition. Hardback.. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 112pp. Nicolas Bentley drew the
pictures. No inscriptions. Green cloth, slightly rubbed. £5.00
[13605] Boothroyd, J.B.. Motor If You Must. London: George Allen & Unwin,
1960. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. / No dustwrapper.. 88pp. Illustrated.
These humorous articles were first published in Punch magazine. Name on
endpaper. Blue and black cloth. £3.00
[10944] Candappa, Rohan. The Little Book of Stress. London: Ebury Press, 1998.
4th Impression. Paperback. Very Good+. ISBN: 0091865859. No inscriptions. £3.00
[193] Dickson, Harris. The Unpopular History of the United States by Uncle Sam
Himself. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1917. First Edition. Hardback.. Good+.
No dustwrapper. xiv,162pp. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper boards, worn on
the corners. £8.00
[12798] Drew, Simon. Camp David : Nonsense in Art. Woodbridge: Antique
Collectors' Club, 1992. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 1851491627.
Signed by the author. Pictorial laminated boards. £8.00
[15344] Estrobes, Umberto. Gnome of the Rose . London: Private Eye/Andre
Deutsch, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0233981470. The Best of
Private Eye 1985-7. Edited by Ian Hislop. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £3.00
[12148] Feldstein, Albert B.. The Dirty Old MAD. New York: Warner Books, 1975.
12th impression. Paperback. Good. No inscriptions. Pages browned. £3.00
[6004] Fiddy, Ronald. The Fanatic's Guide to Golf. Watford: Exley Publications,
1991. 8th Impression. Paperback. Fine ISBN: 1850151725. Oblong
format.Unpaginated. Cartoons by Roland Fiddy. No inscriptions. Illustrated
covers. £6.00
[14739] Frost, David; Shea, Michael. The Mid-Atlantic Companion, or, How to
Misunderstand Americans As Much As They Misunderstand Us. London: Weidenfeld
& Nicolson, 1986. First Edition. Hardback. . Very Good / No dustwrapper.
ISBN: 0297787039. 166pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. No dustwrapper.
Illustrated laminated boards, pages browned. £5.00
[14467] Gilbert, W.S.. The Lost Bab Ballads. London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932.
3rd Impression. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. 127pp. Bookplate.
Inscription dated 1932. Green cloth gilt, small piece out of rear endpaper. A
nice bright copy. . £8.00
[12743] Giles. Giles Cartoons Twenty-ninth Series. Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1975.
Good+. Oblong 4to. paperback. No inscriptions. Pages browned. £3.00
[13816] Giles. Giles Annual 35th Series. London: Express Newspapers, 1981.
Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0850791154. No inscriptions. Pages browned,. Titlle
page not price-clipped £4.00
[13026] Gordon, Richard. Instant Fishing. London: Heinemann, 1979. First
Edition. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good d/w ISBN: 0434302554. Illustrated by
Michael ffolkes. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt. £4.00
[14424] Graham, Harry. More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes. London: Edward
Arnold, 1943. 3rd Impression. Hardback. Good+ / No dustwrapper. ISBN:
B001221CJ8. Oblong format. 64pp. Illustrated by Ridgewell. Inscriptions on front
endpaper, top corner clipped. Green cloth with black titles and illustration to
front board, lower corner of pages 3-10 chipped [not affecting the text or
illustrations], otherwise VG. £20.00
[8166] Harding, Mike. Rambling On . London: Robson Books, 1986. First Edition.
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0860513890. 156pp. Illustrations by
Larry. Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt. £4.00
[15380] Harper, Norman. Stronach - Volume Three. Stronach Media, 1994. First
Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine ISBN: 1897672047. 111pp. Illustrated. No
inscriptions. Illustrated covers. As new condition. £5.00
[9833] Herbert, A.P.. Plain Jane. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1927. First Edition.
Hardback. Good+ . No dustwrapper. 144pp. Illustrated by Anna K. Zinkeisen. No
dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt, gilt blocked illustration on
front board, gilt bright, spotting/fading of cloth, o/w VG. £4.00
[11774] Hislop, Ian [editor]. The Private Eye Annual 2002. London: Pressdram,
2002. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 1901784282. 4to.
96pp. No inscriptions. Original illustrated laminated boards. £6.00
[14282] Ingoldsby, Thomas [R.H. Barham]. Misadventures at Margate - A Legend of
Jarvis's Jetty. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, First Edition. Hardback. Very
Good No date [1890]. 18pp. Illustrated by Ernest M. Jessop. Chromolithographic
title page and preliminary page. 18 pages of text with chromolithographic
illustrations. No inscriptions. Quarter green cloth and illustrated bevelled
boards, foxed and worn on extremities, new endpapers. Contents clean and tight..
£60.00
[1572] J.F.G. [John F. Gore]. The Silly Season. London: Elkin Mathews, 1905.
First Edition. Hardback.. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 104pp. No inscriptions. Red
cloth gilt. £10.00
[10512] James, Clive. Charles Charming's Challenges on the Pathway to the
Throne. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in
dustwrapper ISBN: 0224019546. 104pp. A Royal Poem in Rhyming
Couplets.Inscription on endpaper. Original blue cloth gilt. £6.00
[6356] Kavanagh, Ted. Tommy Handley. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. 2nd
Impression. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. 255pp. Illustrated. Name on
endpaper Green cloth, spine sunned. £3.00
[7581] Lambert, Jane (compiler) illustrated Bill Tidy. Accidental Times - a
selection of bizarre and amusing Victorian accidents from The Times. London:
George Allen & Unwin, 1984. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in near fine d/w
ISBN: 0048080411. xii,136pp. General index and Index of Places. Numerous cartoon
illustrations by Bill Tidy. Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt.
£6.00
[9679] Larson, Gary. Last Chapter and Worse. London: Warner Books, 1999. 2nd
Impression. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0751517755. No inscriptions. £3.00
[13828] Lipman, Maureen. Thank You for Having Me. London: Robson Books, 1990.
First Edition. Hardback. Signed by Author. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0860516792. viii,
242pp. Illustrated. Inscribed by the author 'Happy Xmas ! Maureen Lipman'
Dustwrapper not price-clipped. Blue cloth gilt. £3.00
[12936] Lipman, Maureen & Phillips, Richard. You Got An Ology ? . London:
Robson, 1989. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. No d/w as issued. ISBN: 0860515982.
4to. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £4.00
[14129] Mahood, Kenneth. The Secret Sketchbook of a Bloomsbury Lady. London:
Bodley Head, 1982. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. ISBN:
0370304756. 4to. 64pp. Illustrated. Foreword by Michael Holroyd. Name and
bookplate on half-title. Illustrated boards. £3.00
[8224] McPhee, Nancy. The Second Book of Insults. London: Andre Deutsch, 1981.
First Edition. Hardback. Fine in very good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0233973745 .
132pp. Illustrated by Graham Pilsworth. Complete cross-referenced index.
Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Red and blue cloth. £5.00
[10945] Mico, Ted [editor]. Life Stinks - A Wry Look at Hopelessness, Despair
and Disaster. Kansas City: Ariel Books, 1995. Hardback. Fine in fine
dustwrapper. ISBN: 0836231147. Small format. Illustrated in colour. No
inscriptions. £8.00
[7529] Milligan, Spike. Where Have All The Bullets Gone ?. London: Penguin
Books, 1986. 16th impression. Paperback. Good+. ISBN: 014008892X. 283pp.
Illustrated. Covers slightly creased. £3.00
[4261] Morley, Robert. Robert Morley's Book of Bricks. London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1978. 2nd Impression. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper ISBN:
0297775391. 159pp. Illustrations by Geoffrey Dickinson and John Jensen.
Inscription on endpaper. Green cloth gilt £3.00
[10225] Morley, Robert. A Musing Morley. London: Robson Books, 1974. First
Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 090389517X. xiv, 207pp. The
selected writings of Robert Morley with a preface by Alan Coren. No dustwrapper.
No inscriptions. Beige cloth. £4.00
[8847] Muir, Frank and Brett, Simon. On Children. London: Heinemann, 1980. 2nd
Impression. Hardback. Fine. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0434481513. 122pp. Illustrated
by Joseph Wright. No inscriptions. Mauve laminated boards.. £5.00
[5996] Mullins, Spike (editor). Ronnie Corbett's Small Man's Guide. London:
Michael Joseph/M. & J. Hobbs, 1976. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ in
Very Good+ d/w ISBN: 0718115589. 108pp.Illustrated by Bill Tidy. No
inscriptions. Red cloth. £3.00
[5983] Nimmo, Derek. Not in Front of the Servants - Humour with Class. London:
Robson Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine price-clipped d/w
ISBN: 0860514463. 171pp. Illustrated with cartoons from Punch, Osbert Lancaster,
Thelwell etc. No inscriptions. Red cloth gilt. £3.00
[14100] Parkinson, C. Northcote. The Law & The Profits. London: John Murray,
1960. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good. v, 185pp. Illustrated by
Osbert Lancaster. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper worn at top os spine, price
intact. Green cloth gilt. £4.00
[7868] Parkinson, Michael. Sporting Fever. London: Stanley Paul, 1974. First
Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0091217105. 184pp.. Drawings
by Derek Alder. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Green cloth. £3.00
[12614] Parsons, Denys. Never More True. London: Macdonald, 1960. First Edition.
Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper ISBN: B0000CKS8P. 53pp. Drawings by
Emmwood. No inscriptions. Green cloth. £6.00
[10330] Punch. Mr. Punch on Tour. London: Proprietors of "Punch"
/Carmelite House, Hardback. Good. No dustwrapper. 192pp. Illustrated, No
dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Pictorial covers, rubbed, £4.00
[931] Punch. Mr Punch Afloat. London: Amalgamated Press, Hardback.. Good. No
dustwrapper. 192pp. Boards discoloured, endpapers foxed. £4.00
[5181] Punch. Punch 1859 - Volumes XXXVI and XXXVII. Good+. Bound volume
comprising Punch's Almanack for 1859. Volume XXXVI. Index. Volume XXXVII. Index
. Comtemporary red cloth (sunned, worn), gilt titles. £16.00
[12514] Secombe, Fred. A Comedy of Clerical Errors. London: Fount Paperbacks,
1995. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0006278760. No
inscriptions. £3.00
[6588] Sellar, W.C. & Yeatman, R.J.. Horse Nonsense. London: Methuen, 1933.
Second Edition. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. 26pp. Illustrated by John
Reynolds. Inscription on endpaper. Red-brown cloth gilt, bumped/marked, contents
VG. £3.00
[13848] Skinner, Cornelia Otis. That's Me All Over. London: Constable, 1949.
First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper.. Cornelia Otis Skinner's
First Omnibus. vi, 312pp. Illustrations by Alajalov. No inscriptions. Green
cloth gilt. £4.00
[6006] Smythe, Reg. Andy Capp Number 20, 1968. London: Daily Mirror Newspapers,
1968. Paperback. Good+. Unpaginated. No inscriptions. Covers slightly creased ,
pages browned o/w VG. £3.00
[13045] Stirk, David. ' Carry Your Bag, Sir? ' A History of Golf's Caddies.
London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1989. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine
price-clipped d/w ISBN: 0854931724. 128pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Green
cloth gilt. £6.00
[12794] Terry, John. Calves in the Classroom. London: Farming press, 1987. First
Edition. Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 0852361653. Signed by the author. £5.00
[934] Thomas, S Evelyn. Laughs with the Lovelies. P.J. Press, Hardback.. Good
ISBN: B0000CI77L. 96pp of Wartime cartoons and jokes including 12 full page
colour cartoons. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Boards rubbed o/w VG £4.00
[9861] Thurber, James. Further Fables of Our Time. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1956. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper xi,
174pp. Illustrated by the author. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper. Quarter green
cloth with gilt illustrations on the boards. £6.00
[12941] Thurber, James; Weeks, Edward; Thurber, Helen. Selected Letters of James
Thurber. London: Penguin Books, 1982. First Paperback Edition. Good+. ISBN:
0140063536. No inscriptions. Pages browned. £3.00
[3207] Tickner, John. Tickner's Dog Licence. London: Putnam, 1957. First
Edition. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper ISBN: B0000CJTIV. 77pp.
Illustrated by the author. No inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt. £5.00
[12709] Tyas, Shaun. Book-Worm Droppings: An Anthology of Absurd Remarks Made by
Customers in Second-hand Bookshops. Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1990. Reprint. Trade
Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 1871615011. Illustrated by Martin Smith. No inscriptions.
£8.00
[11380] Wright, Patrick. 101 Further Uses for a John Major. London: Andre
Deutsch, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 0233988971. Illustrated. No
inscriptions. £6.00
[9644] Zobel, Allia. The Joy of Being 50 plus. New York: Workman Publishing,
1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 076111310X. Illustrated by Roz
Chast. No inscriptions. £3.00
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