Search Results: Humour from lobstabooks

Britannicus Liber London 1951 G/G (unclipped dj with light edge wear and light stains across back cover, clean pictorial paper-covered boards in blue/yellow/white with illustration of young couple with cases on front cover,one or two faint spots endpapers, internally no significant fault) 12mo 12mo 76pp. First edition. Humorous advice on how to live in lodgings. Illustrated with line drawings.

George Allen & Unwin London 1946 VG (original blue cloth, slightly faded, no dj) 12mo. 133pp Derived from pieces in Punch

William Heinemann London 1957 Fair (no dj, lightly soiled red cloth with 3" split head of wobbly spine, occasional small marks in margins and browning last page and outside edges, reading copy only) octavo 286pp. First edition. Collection of humorous stories, most of which first appeared in The New Yorker.

London,: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., 1990 VG/VG boards are clean and bright. no inscriptions. First edition. Quarto sized.

London,: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., 1990 VG/VG boards are clean and bright. no inscriptions. First edition. Quarto sized. SIGNED by the author on pre-title page.

Hammond Hammond and Co London 1958 VG/Poor (dj tarnished chipped and torn with quarter of front cover missing, front board lightly marked, pencil annotations front endpaper and light browning to both endpapers else contents clean bright and unmarked) large octavo unpaginated. Some 120 cartoons from The Wall Street Journal, catching the absurdities of life in an office, at the 18th and 19th hole, and in suburbia.

Phillips Collection, Washington D. C., 2011 fine . no dj. pictorial boards are clean and bright. no inscriptions. internally a good crisp copy. First edition.collectable . delightful clean copy. From the personal collection of a dealer/collector, purchased for investment

Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1967 Vg (no dj, red cloth with gilt titles on spine. contents clean and unmarked throughout) reprint.

Thames & Hudson, London UK, 1983 fine . no dj. laminated pictorial boards are clean and bright. no inscriptions. internally a good crisp copy. First edition.collectable . Unpaginated book of Glen Baxter's cartoons.

Thames & Hudson, London UK, 1983 fine . no dj. laminated pictorial boards are clean and bright. no inscriptions. First edition. Quarto sized. SIGNED by the author on the first page. From the back cover "Jodhpurs in the Quantocks is a collection of drawings and short stories from the hand of Glen Baxter. Glen Baster has exhibited his drawings and paintings in New York, Amsterdam and London. He is the author of Atlas and the Impending Gleam

Thames & Hudson, London UK, 1983 fine . no dj. laminated pictorial boards are clean and bright. no inscriptions. internally a good crisp copy. First edition.collectable . Unpaginated book of Glen Baxter's cartoons.

Heath Cranton Ltd London 1944 Vg (no dj, blue cloth with gilt titles on faded spine, old price 1/- in blue crayon on front free endpaper else contents clean and unmarked throughout) 12mo 79pp. First edition. A miscellany of humour, spiced with wit. Anthology of verse, stories, limericks etc.

London : Penguin, 1977 paperback . covers have a few creases and indentation marks, with bumping to corners. no inscriptions. clean and tidy copy.

W Westall & Co Ltd London 1918 VG (clean grey pictorial cloth with black title on spine and red/black/white pictorial front cover depicting bearded man looking out of window,light browning endpapers, scattered spotting outside page edges just encroaching upon one or two margins, contents very clean) 16mo unpaginated. "Concerning men, and the things that men do, at the time when there was war." Set out in Bible style, chapters and verses, satirical look at events during the first world war.

Cassell and Company Ltd London 1919 G (no dj, green pictorial cloth worn at edges and corners a bit limp, spine lightly wrinkled and colours faded, pale blue titles on spine, black titles and vignette of dogs on front board, orange decorated endpapers, ink signature front fixed endpaper, one weak early hinge and spine a touch wobbly but binding remaining firm, pages clean with just the occasional small speckle or smudge, browning free endpapers and last page) 12mo 308pp. First edition. Many b/w drawings throughout.

Judson Press Valley Forge 1962 Vg/G (lightly worn dj with few dust marks and one black mark front cover where sticky label removed, attractive light brown mottled boards with brown lettering, pencil numerals front free endpaper and small abrasion where ?price sticker removed, contents fine as new, slight fusty smell) 12mo 96pp. Stated first edition. Observations of the foibles and fallacies of life in the Church, with a touch of gentle satire.

Grant Richards London 1921 G (no dj, blue cloth with black titles, both top corners bent and curled, patchy browning free endpapers,outside page edges dustmarked and with few speckles, internally pages clean and bright, neat signature front free endpaper) 12mo 266pp. First edition. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by the author.

Evans Brothers London 1962 Vg/Vg (clean unclipped dj with one small chip upper edge and small price sticker front flap, clean blue cloth with black titles on spine, front board with black line drawing of teacher surrounded by school children, small patch light shadow browning free endpapers else contents very clean and bright, no marks or inscriptions) 12mo 103pp. First edition. Humorous picture of life in State Schools of the early 1960s. With line drawings throughout.

Michael O'Mara, London, 2001 VG/VG as new Octavo. pp 162 . Collected volume of witty quotes from Winston Churchill.