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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

[7025] Arkell, Reginald. Playing The Games. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1935. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 96pp. Pictured by Robert S. Sherriffs. Humorous verse on games and pastimes [ several about Golf] by the author of the Green Fingers series. No inscriptions. Black cloth spine and oatmeal boards, scattered foxing. £5.00

[13403] Armstrong, Anthony. Easy Warriors. London: Methuen, 1932. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 147pp. 8pp. catalogue. Illustrated by G.L.Stampa. Name and price on endpaper. Green cloth gilt, gold blocked vignette on front board., top corner bumped. £10.00

[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

[14402] Barrington, Patrick. Songs of a Sub-Man. London: Methuen, 1934. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / Good. ISBN: B000SFQ4G6. 91p. 8pp. catalogue. Illustrated by Ian Fenwick. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper chipped, 3cm loss at base of spine/corner of rear panel, price intact. Blue cloth, sunned at spine ends. £100.00

[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

[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

[14176] Bentley, E. Clerihew. The Complete Clerihews of E. Clerihew Bentley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. 2nd Impression. Hardback. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0192129783. 145pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper price intact. Brown cloth gilt. £6.00

[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

[13574] Cowie, Donald. Tubers and Taradiddle or The Gardener's Entertainment. Malvern: Tantivy Press, 1944. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. / No dustwrapper.. 103pp. Humorous account of a gardener's year. No inscriptions. Black cloth, rubbed/bumped. £4.00

[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

[12148] Feldstein, Albert B.. The Dirty Old MAD. New York: Warner Books, 1975. 12th impression. Paperback. Good. No inscriptions. Pages browned. £3.00

[12147] Feldstein, Albert B.. The Non-Violent MAD. New York: Warner Books, 1975. 6th 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

[14429] Fougasse. Drawing The Line Somewhere. London: Methuen, 1937. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. ISBN: B000SHYGQY. 137pp. Book of cartoons. No inscriptions. Front end paper marked. Yellow cloth. £4.00

[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

[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

[12743] Giles. Giles Cartoons Twenty-ninth Series. Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1975. Good+. Oblong 4to. paperback. No inscriptions. Pages browned. £3.00

[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

[14423] Graham, Harry. Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes. London: Edward Arnold, 1944. 28th impression. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. Oblong format. 80pp. Inscription on endpaper dated 1945. Brown cloth with black titles and illustration to front board £30.00

[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

[6541] Haselden, John. 'Allo 'Allo - The War Diaries of Rene Artois. London: BBC Books, 1988. 4th Impression. Hardback. Fine ISBN: 0563206888. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Inscription on endpaper. Pictorial laminated boards. £3.00

[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

[11775] Hislop, Ian [editor]. The Private Eye Annual 2000. London: Pressdram, 2000. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 1901784215. 4to. 96pp. No inscriptions. Original illustrated laminated boards. £6.00

[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

[948] Holland, Vyvyan. An Explosion of Limericks. London: Cassell, 1967. Second Edition. Hardback.. Very Good in dustwrapper ISBN: 0304919691. 4to. 100pp. With Explanatory Drawings by Sprod. No inscriptions. VG+ in VG dustwrapper £8.00

[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

[14286] Ingrams Richard and Wells John. Mrs. Wilson's 2nd. Diary. London: Private Eye, 1966. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. 72pp. Illustrations by William Rushton. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper marked, price intact. Red cloth gilt £3.00

[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

[12765] Kington, Miles. Let's Parler Franglais One More Temps. London: Robson Books, 1982. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0860511782. No inscriptions.Front endpaper marked. Pictorial laminated boards. £4.00

[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

[8413] Lancaster, Osbert. The Littlehampton Bequest. London: John Murray, 1973. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in near fine d/w ISBN: 0719529328. 94pp. Illustrated. Plan endpapers. Dustwrapper. Inscription on endpaper. Yellow cloth gilt. £4.00

[10567] Langdon, David. How To Talk Golf - David Langdon's A-Z of Golfing Terms. London: Eyre Methuen, 1975. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good - signed by the auth ISBN: 0413342506. 80pp. Illustrated. Inscribed " For Irving from David '94". Original pictorial laminated boards. £16.00

[9679] Larson, Gary. Last Chapter and Worse. London: Warner Books, 1999. 2nd Impression. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0751517755. No inscriptions. £3.00

[14430] Lear, Edward. The Book of Nonsense and More Nonsense. London: Frederick Warne, Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. Chandos Classics. Unpaginated. Illustrated thouughout. Name on endpaper. Inscription dated 1936 on half-title. Red cloth gilt, slightly bumped/rubbed on extremities. £15.00

[7530] Lear, Edward. Nonsense Omnibus. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1987. 2nd Impression. Paperback. Good+. ISBN: 0140087761. 480pp. With the original illustrations. Introduction by Sir E. Strachey. Covers slightly creased. £3.00

[14418] Lear, Edward with drawings by L. Leslie Brooke. The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses. London: Frederick Warne, . Hardback. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0723205833. Colour frontispiece and title page. 6 further full page colour plates. Line drawings. Illustrated endpapers. No inscriptions. Slight edge wear to dustwrapper. Orange cloth with silver titles and decorations to front board. £12.00

[658] Lemon, Mark. The Jest Book. London: Macmillan, 1865. Hardback.. Good. Small 8vo. viii, 361pp. Green pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed/worn on edges, endpapers cracked, contents VG. Lemon was the co-founder (with Henry Mayhew) of Punch magazine in 1841 £10.00

[11567] Lewis, Thos. A. [compiler]. That's a Good One ! The Lighter Side of Business in Story, Epigram and Verse. London: May & Curtis, 1936. 2nd Impression. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 138pp. Advertisemants. Illustrated. Foreword by Ronald Frankau. An anthology of workplace humour form the Thirties compiled by the editor of "Sales Management" comprising That's a Good One! [a collection of stories in alphabetical order], Light Sentences [Epigrams and business axioms in alphabetical order], Snatches of Verses [grouped in alphabetical order], Gert-On-With-It Poems by Thos. H. Lewis and Alleged Letters. No inscriptions. Original black cloth with white lettering and an illustration on the front board. £10.00

[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

[13887] Loos, Anita. No Mother To Guide Her. London: Arthur Barker, 1961. First UK Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. 128pp. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper price intact. Red cloth gilt. £5.00

[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

[11772] Milligan, Spike. The Goon Show Scripts. London: Sphere Books, 1973. Reprint. Paperback. Good. ISBN: 0722160798. No inscriptions. Foxed/browned. £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

[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

[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

[7560] Pocock, Guy and Bozman, M.M.. Modern Humour - A Nosegay of Comtemporary Wit. London: J.M. Dent, 1946. Reprint. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. Everyman's Library No. 957. xiii,370pp. 16pp catalogue. No inscriptions. Orange cloth gilt. £3.00

[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

[931] Punch. Mr Punch Afloat. London: Amalgamated Press, Hardback.. Good. No dustwrapper. 192pp. Boards discoloured, endpapers foxed. £4.00

[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

[12514] Secombe, Fred. A Comedy of Clerical Errors. London: Fount Paperbacks, 1995. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0006278760. No inscriptions. £3.00

[12139] Secombe, Harry. Goon Abroad. London: Robson Books, 1982. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in near fine d/w ISBN: 0860511936. 160pp. Illustrated by the author. no inscriptions. Ochre cloth gilt. £5.00

[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

[11771] Shaw, Phil. Extreme Ironing. London: New Holland, 2003. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 1843305550. 96pp Illustrated. No inscriptions. Original illustrated laminated boards. £4.00

[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

[13761] Stilgoe, Richard. The Richard Stilgoe Letters - A Jumble of Anagrams. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981. First Edition. Hardback. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0048270350. vii, 120pp. With cartoons by Richard Wilson. No inscriptions. Cream cloth, black lettering. £5.00

[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