Search Results: Fiction / Humour from Aucott & Thomas

William Stevens Ltd.. Good with no dust jacket. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback bound in silver leathercloth with black & red titles & decoration, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, neat previous owner's gift inscription on front endpaper. 100 page humorous novel, extremely funny, and surprisingly scarce - predates 'The young visiters' by 7 years .

William Stevens Ltd.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback bound in silver leathercloth with black & red titles & decoration, loss to the bottom corner of two leaves (some text lost, now replaced by photocopies), cloth has minor rubbing at corners, no inscriptions. 100 page humorous novel, extremely funny, and surprisingly scarce - predates 'The young visiters' by 7 years .

ABC Books. Very Good. 1993. First Edition. Softcover. 0733303250 . Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, has crease to bottom corner of back cover otherwise appears little used. 178 pages .

T. Fisher Unwin. Good with no dust jacket. 1920. Second Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with dulled gilt titles, cloth is rubbed at corners, page edges a little browned, non-authorial gift inscription on front endpaper otherwise internally unmarked. 320 pages, a few illustrations in the text .

Macdonald & Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0356122115 . Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Pages are age-toned, but otherwise appears little used. 208 page humorous novel .

Hutchinson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0091434300 . Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with a small mark on the endpaper where a label has been removed, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is slightly faded at the spine. Appears little used. 286 pages, 16 short stories and a new introduction by the author .

Herbert Jenkins. Good with no dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in orange cloth with black titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, partially erased name on front pastedown otherwise no inscriptions. 192 page allegedly humorous novel by a poor P. G. Wodehouse impersonator .

Macmillan. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1405090804 . Very clean, tightly bound book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. As new, appears unread. First novel, which has been favourably compared to those of P.G. Wodehouse and Tom Sharpe .

Jonathan Cape Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Reprint; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0224009885 . Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright dustjacket, clipped & repriced by the publisher. Appears little used. 176 pages .

Tam Tam Books. Good. 2012. First Edition. Softcover. 0966234618 . Clean, tightly bound paperback, a little creased, card covers rubbed at corners, remains of bookseller label on the back cover, but generally appears little used, no inscriptions. 84 pages .

France: Anthracite. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1995. Reprint. Hardcover. 2910984001 . Texte en Francais. Very clean, large format hardback tightly bound in pictorial boards, no inscriptions, appears unread. 60 pages, cartoons .

Secker and Warburg. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0436086107 . Clean hardback tightly bound in pink cloth with gilt titles, cloth has a few faint marks, some foxing on page edges, gift inscription in pencil by the author on front endpaper. Appears little used. viii + 164 pages; Signed by Author .

Macmillan. Fine. 1999. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears unread. 292 pages .

Pan Books Ltd.. Good. 1949. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Clean, tightly bound paperback, spine creased, card covers rubbed at corners and chipped at the foot of the spine, pages age-toned, but a decent copy of one of her less common books, no inscriptions. 224 pages .

Barrie & Jenkins. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. 0257661786 . Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which has faded from orange to yellow at the spine. Appears little used. .

Stanley Paul. Good with no dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with dulled gilt titles, ex Boots Library, but only minor label residue to front cover & rear pastedown, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, no inscriptions. 200 pages .

Methuen. Good in Good dust jacket. 1932. Reprint; Second Printing. Hardcover. Clean, tightly bound book with a neat inscription on front end paper, in an unclipped dustjacket which has 20mm loss at top of spine and minor chipping at the corners. x + 110 pages + adverts, illustrations by Arthur Watts, index. Does for science what Sellars & Yeatman did for history .

Victor Gollancz Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0575041552 . Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is slightly faded at the spine. Appears little used. 220 pages .

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1957. Reprint. Hardcover. 2 clean, tightly bound books, with no inscriptions, in unclipped dustjackets which are sunned at the spine, chipped & creased at the edges and have minor loss at foldovers and spine. xxx + 410 + 8 pages of publisher's adverts and x + 428 pages + 8 pages of publisher's adverts .

Heinemann. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is chipped with minor loss at the edges, closed repaired tear at base of spine. 228 pages, illustrations in the text by Sheila Hawkins .