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Humour


...and the gatepost

...and the gatepost

Fougasse

Splendid collection of Fougasse's 'Careless Talk Costs Lives' illustrations, included with the broad..

£35.00

A Diary Of The Gladstone Government

A Diary Of The Gladstone Government

[George Roland Halkett]

ND. c.1885 (WorldCat) Fortieth thousand. Volume of anti-Gladstone humour anonymously drawn by noted ..

£10.00

A Last Diary Of The Great Warr

A Last Diary Of The Great Warr

Samuel Pepys Junior [R M Freeman and R A Bennett]

The third volume of Freeman and Bennett's humourous Pepysian First World War diary, greatly enhanced..

£20.00

A Second Diary Of The Great Warr

A Second Diary Of The Great Warr

Samuel Pepys Junior [R M Freeman and R A Bennett]

The second volume of Freeman and Bennett's humourous Pepysian First World War diary, greatly enhance..

£20.00

Alarms And Dversions

Alarms And Dversions

James Thurber

First UK edition of this excellent Thurber collection. Light toning to stock, but otherwise all in V..

£15.00

Blizzards Of Tweed [SIGNED]

Blizzards Of Tweed [SIGNED]

Glen Baxter

Signed by Baxter to title page and scarce thus. In near fine, clean, crisp and bright order througho..

£20.00

Christmas Story

Christmas Story

H L Mencken

A masterly combination of Mencken's prose and Crawford's illustrations. A definite (unChristmassy) C..

£17.50

COMIC MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE An Old Friend In A New Dress

COMIC MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE An Old Friend In A New Dress

Anon. [James Beresford]

Some marking and occasional signatures in coloured pencil in text render this close to a reading cop..

£25.00

Count Palmiro Vicarion's Book Of Limericks

Count Palmiro Vicarion's Book Of Limericks

Count Palmiro Vicarion [Christopher Logue]

For the broadminded only. Entertainingly filthy limericks expertly realised by "Count Palmiro Vicari..

£20.00

Dennis The Menace

Dennis The Menace

Hank Ketcham

This is the American upstart Dennis, not the proper DC Thomson Beano Menace. Cartoon collection in V..

£7.50

DOCTOR SYNTAX'S THREE TOURS In Search Of The Picturesque, Of Consolation, And Of A Wife

DOCTOR SYNTAX'S THREE TOURS In Search Of The Picturesque, Of Consolation, And Of A Wife

William Combe

Combe's tales in comic verse, greatly enhanced by 80 coloured Rowlandson plates in this 'new' editio..

£25.00

EDWARD THE SEVENTH A Play On The Past And Present Times With A View To The Future Illustrated By Double-Page And Whole-Page Cartoons Of Suggestive Scenes, And A Treble-Page Frontispiece, Presenting The Portraits Of The Authors Of

EDWARD THE SEVENTH A Play On The Past And Present Times With A View To The Future Illustrated By Double-Page And Whole-Page Cartoons Of Suggestive Scenes, And A Treble-Page Frontispiece, Presenting The Portraits Of The Authors Of "The Coming K---"

[S O Beeton; G R Emerson; S R Emerson; E C G Murray; E D Jerrold; O P Q Philander Smiff ( A A Dowty)]

Satirical play (though presumably designed to be read rather than performed) on the life of the futu..

£20.00

Fanny Peculiar

Fanny Peculiar

Keith Waterhouse

Good collection of Waterhouse pieces from Punch magazine, demonstrating excellent and absurd flights..

£10.00

Fifty Caricatures

Fifty Caricatures

Max Beerbohm

Excellent volume of Beerbohm drawings, mostly tipped on to card leaves (bar the final two printed di..

£15.00

Further Forensic Fables

Further Forensic Fables

O

Thoroughly entertaining collection of comic legal parables. Illustrated. In good internal order, bar..

£20.00

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