Search Results: Humour from Marion Pitman Books

London: Boxtree Ltd (Pan Macmillan), 2004. Very slight spine lean. First Edition, Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1926. Blue cloth worn and marked, name on flyleaf; endpapers brown, some foxing; spine bit slant; text clean and sound. "Some incidents in the life of a charlady whose motto is 'do or be done'". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 9999. Bit of foxing at end; pict. dustwrapper frayed top and bottom and small sticker on front but clean & bright. Twelfth Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

London: Methuen, 1916. Humourous novel set in the west of Ireland. Labels on front and inside front cover from Palmer's Library, High Street, Ramsey. Flyleaf torn; cloth worn; foxing and finger marks. Reading copy.. Tenth Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

London: Robson Books Ltd, 1993. Scripts; illustrated. Slight crease to corner of cover, spine faded. First Edition Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Michael Joseph, 1949. Spine little dull, decorated yellow cloth binding slightly grubby.. Revised Edn., Second Impression. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Nicolas Bentley.

Leeds: F. Youngman, 9999. Pocket-size magazine, 5ins x 7ins, jokes, stories, cartoons, slightly risqué, forces oriented, soon after the war, ie late 1940s. Original price 4d. 32 pages + covers. Staples have rusted, marking the pages around them, otherwise good condition.. Not Known. Soft Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1986. Some damage to back cover. Curious stories of dealings between the law and animals. A Graham Tarrant Book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Nicola Jennings .

London: Collins, 1957. Dustwrapper badly stained; some foxing at ends. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Illus. by Low.

London: Ward, Lock, 1947. Blue cloth, somewhat discoloured & dented. Text OK.. First. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

London: Ward, Lock, 1938. Cloth worn at edges & ends, spine dull, some water staining back board; endpapers browned. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1941. Yellow Penguin, No. 341. Pieces reprinted from News Chronicle. Wartime paper, edges brown, cover very fragile, frayed at edges, good deal of spine gone, and some spotting & staining. First. Soft Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

London: Michael Joseph, 1993. Dustwrapper is unclipped, but has a number of indentations and one or two small scratches, as if someone had used it to lean on when scribbling on another piece of paper. One very small dent has gone through to the back board. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Walton-on-Thames, Surrey: M. & J. Hobbs, 1970. Coffee stain on front cover, otherwise good. Small booklet, illustrated, 36 pages. Scarce.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Longmans, 1966. "combines satire & farce with comic fantasy" Dustwrapper unclipped, worn on top edge. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 9999. few small tears top & bottom. d/w, one slightly affecting lettering, otherwise pictorial dustwrapper bright & clean. 1920s/30s. Twelfth Printing. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Good.

London: J.M.Dent, 1932. Reprinted from "Punch". Pictorial cloth binding faded & stained, slightly cocked, contents good. First. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by George Morrow.

London: Pan, 1960. Edges very brown, covers worn on edges with few small tears. The Phoenix Book of Wit and Humour. Short pieces and extracts from such as Beachcomber, Marghanita Laski, Stephen Potter, Sellars & Yeatman, Brahms & Simon, Betjeman, A. P Herbert, etc etc. Originally published in 1949.. New Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket.

London: John Hamilton, 1927. Binding stained & worn, spine partly split; inside the back cover someone has noted in pencil various events leading up to second world war. 8 b/w plates by Will Owen.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Will Owen.

London: Macmillan, 1944. Slight fading of cloth lower edge of front and spine; Nicolas Bentley illus. dustwrapper is price clipped and worn & slightly frayed on edges, with small tears at top of spine.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good.