Search Results: Humor from Ainsworth Books

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd.. Good with no dust jacket. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth boards have some light soiling, some fraying to top of spine, tiny tear base of spine, lightly sun-faded on spine. Previous owner's name on FFEP, with "Discard" stamped in ink on same page. This may be an ex-library copy, but there is no indication of card pocket etc ever having been present. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. .

Saanichton, BC: Hancock House. Very Good. 1975. Revised Edition. Softcover. 0919654355 . Card covers show shelf wear, sun-faded on spine edge. Gift inscription written inside front card cover. ; A tight solid book. Illustrated with B&W cartoons ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 102 pages .

Vancouver BC: Arsenal Pulp Press. Very Good+. 2006. First Edition. Softcover. 1551522160 . Card covers show very light shelf wear, some corner curl top fore corner.; A bright, solid book. Quirky colour maps throughout. ; Trade PB; 8.66 X 0.3 X 10.85 inches; 128 pages; Oh, Canada: a nation of hockey players, trailer park boys, and doughnut shop habitues; a nation that can claim Marshall McLuhan, Pamela Anderson, and Mr Dressup as among their own. Canada is one complex country all right, and what better way to document its character than an atlas of Canadian place names as compiled by Geist, the magazine of Canadian ideas and culture? This offbeat yet erudite collection of full-colour maps, many (but not all) of which have appeared in the magazine since 1995, includes a wide range of clearly Canadian subject matter from all points far and wide. The Meat Map of Canada features T-Bone Glacier, Yukon, Pork and Bean Point, Manitoba, and Burgerville, Ontario; the Angst Map of Canada locates… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows shelf wear with short tears and dime size chip bottom fore corner of dust jacket. Thinning top corner of front free end paper from erasure. ; Stated first edition. A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 222 pages; "Being a random collection of satirical essays, rude remarks, used anecdotes, thumbnail sketches, ancient wheezes, old nostalgias, wry comments, limp doggerel, intemperate recipes, vagrant opinions and crude drawings by" newspaperman and historian Pierre Berton .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0394489691 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; Stated first edition. A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. ; 8.6 X 5.7 X 1.1 inches; 212 pages; 15 essays by the Canadian master of wit, previously published in various magazines. .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1955. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Book has gift inscription on FFEP. DJ shows shelf wear, with tears, chipping and scuffing. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, hinges intact; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; ""For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's final memoir, Onions in the Stew recounts her second attempt at farm-living, this time on Washington's then-remote… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ shows shelf wear with small tears and chipping, creasing, previous owner's name on front free end paper. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. No additional printings mentioned. Yellow paper covered boards over black cloth spine ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; ""For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's… Read More

Toronto, ON: Macmillan Company of Canada. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. DJ discoloured, some wear to edges and extemities. Lightly bumped bottom corners. Laid paper with side and bottom edges untrimmed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 209 pages; Norwood was a Professor of Classics in Britain for many years until he was offered the position of Professor of Classics and Director of Classical Studies in Toronto in 1928. A series of humourous newspaper and magazine pieces on a wide and varied field of subjects and personal anecdotes written over a period of 15 years, totally apart from his field of study. .

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1962. Reprint; Third Printing. Hardcover. DJ has some soiling, tape-repaired tears and chipping. Previous owner's name and bookplate on inside front board. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. A replica of Leacock's presentation copy bookplate produced by a bookstore in Orillia, Leacock's home town, on front free endpaper. Newspaper article laid in back of book ; Two-colour illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 275 pages; Classic Canadian humor pieces written about a fictional small town in Ontario, Mariposa, by Canada's premier humorist. .

Toronto: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670896535 . A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages .

London: Max Parrish. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. Third Printing. Hardcover. DJ and boards show some shelf wear, DJ has scuff mark on upper left front area, with some surface material missing. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 106 pages; "The humourous side of the great Winston S. Churchill, particularly his exchanges in the House of Commons. A well-researched book containing few of the more apocryphal comments so often attributed to Churchill. Illustrated throughout." .