HEYER, HILARY

It's a Funny World

Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0863328938). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket. A unique book about the sheer funniness of everyday life will almost certainly make you shed a tear or two over its whimsy-comical, tongue-in-cheek observations. Ever stared in bewilderment at a washing machine manual that looks like the computer program for the Star Ship Enterprise? sat in stunned silence at all the weird machinations of our science and technology? or fumed over dress sizes that bear no relation to one another and none to the human body? NOT EX LIB 11. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 005016

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Humour 0863328938

HOGGART, SIMON (EDITED BY)

House of Cards - a Selection of Modern Political Humour

London, Elm Tree. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241124514). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Jensen, John. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine price clipped dustjacket. The well known political journalist presents a marvellous anthology of Westminster focused political humour embellished with cartoons by John Jensen. 2. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 003676

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Political Humour Anthology 0241124514 Jensen, John

HOUGHTON, GEORGE

Golf Addicts on Parade

London, Chancellor Press. 2003. (ISBN: 0753708566). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Houghton, George. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket with Fine dustjacket. Foreword by Cyril Tolley. First published by Country Life in 1959. More humour can be found in golf than practically any other walk of life says Tolley in his foreword and the cartoonist Houghton proves the truth of this statement with this facsimile edition full of his cartoons on the subject. 1. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 004611

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Keywords: Humour, Golf, Cartoonist 0753708566 Houghton, George

WYNDHAM-LEWIS, D.B.

At the Sign of the Blue Moon

London, Andrew Melrose. 1924. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yellow and light blue title on blue cloth boards which have some minor marks, just a touch of wear to spine head and tail and corner tips and age darkening to spine. Internally there is a small name and date to front endpaper, age darkening to endpapers and foxing to closed edges.316 pages. Second edition. The pieces, first appeared in the Daily Mail - with the exception of No. XLII. The author, Dominic Bevan Wyndham-Lewis (1891-1961), was an author who wrote a humorous column for the Daily Mail, entitled 'By the Way', and penned the pseudonym 'Beachcomber', later passing on the mantle to the more well known J.B. Morton. He lived in Paris from the mid 1920s while doing historical research (although he contributed a column called 'At the Sign of the Blue Moon' to the Daily Mail which his followers regarded as his most outstanding body of humorous work). NOT EX LIB B2E. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008661

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Keywords: Dominic Bevan Wyndham-Lewis, Daily Mail Columnist, by the Way, at the Sign of the Blue Moon, Beachcomber

LONGRIGG, ROGER

The Artless Gambler

London, Pelham. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Jensen, John. Gold title on red boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light creasing to some pages else unmarked. Dustjacket is not price clipped. 114 pages. Drawings by John Jensen. 'Luck is no lady', says Roger Longrigg - having reached this conclusion after tortured years of pursuing the creature. He has chased her at racecourses, dog tracks, betting shops, card-tables, chemmy clubs, French casinos, and Midlan race trains. The horrifying, ludicrous fruits of all this effort and expense are in this book. If you want to gamble - any kind of gambling - here, in pitiless detail, is how not to do it. B2C. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009991

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Gambling Jensen, John

MARSHALL, ARTHUR

Sunny Side Up

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241123585). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine umarked copy (Fine apart from a minor indentation to top edge and usual age toning to page edges) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 279 pages. 'I was born frivolous and frivolous I have remaine, ' declares Arthur Marshall, brooking no interference in his pursuit of levity. And, he adds, 'I in no way regret it'. His countless readers will sigh with relief, send up three cheers, and press on with his new book, which is intended to amuse - and no nonsense about profundity or deep thought. There is plenty of useless information though. Did you know that Rupert Brooke could pick up a tennis ball with his foot? Or that there is a little-known illness called Lettucephobia? Or that Mr. Gladstone kept soup in his hot water bottle, just in case? Or that the Christian Science Monitor was once blessed with an editor called Silence Bellows? Well, now you do. 1. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 009897

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: 0241123585

MCMURTRY, STEVE (MAC)

25 Years of Mac - the Best of Mac's Cartoons from the Daily Mail, 1971-96

London, Park McDonald. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 1898094179). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: MAC. A Very Good+ clean and unmarked copy. For a quarter of a century Stan McMurtry - better known as MAC - has drawn the mainfeature cartoon on the Daily Mail. For this book he has ferreted through his archives and compiled a rib-tickling collection of more than 150 of his own personal favourites. From Mad Cow disease, nude Satanic rites and alien corn circles, to the Loch Ness Monster, killer bees and the wrong kind of snow. 1. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005894

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Keywords: Cartoons, British Cartoonists 1898094179 Mac

METCALF, FRED (COMPILED BY)

The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations

London, Viking. 1987. (ISBN: 067080035x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good unmarked copy apart from a small bump to one corner and which has age toning to pages with a VG dustjacket. A marvellous thesaurus of wit, the first of it's kind since 1949, catalogues the best of such diverse epigrammatic intelligences as Oscar Wilde, Woody Allen, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Waugh et al. Arranged thematically and a boon to the after dinner speaker or anyone who wants to employ wity quotes. NOT BOOK CLUB B2A. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 001797

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: 067080035x

MIDLER, BETTE

A View from a Broad

London, Angus and Robertson. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0207959269). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 160 pages. Photo illustrations. 'I knew so little of the world really. Slander, not geography had always been my strongest suit' observes Bette Midler as she recalls the heady days leading up to her first world tour. Then she was off, wisecracking her way from Seattle to Gothenburg to Frankfurt to Adelaide. Armed with a notepad on which she wrote herself various exhortations. (Thoughts to be Avoided: 1. They won't understand a word I say. 2. They will UNDERSTAND and take offense. 3. They won't understand BUT will take offense antway.). which was her only defence against the barbarities of alien cultures, she survived to write this zany account of the trip. Full of her excoriating wit, here overflowing into the dazzling pictures that accompany the text, this is a distillation of the Midler personality lavishly presented, throbbing with life, double entendre and hilarity. 23. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 009998

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: 0207959269

MONKHOUSE, BOB

Just Say a Few Words - the Complete Speaker's Handbook

London, Lennard Publishing. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 1852910127). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Ian Dicks. A near Fine uninscribed copy with some light bumping to top corner tips. Dustjacket is also near Fine. The comedian and scriptwriter presents a marvellous guide to speech making based on a lifetime's personal experience and with the advice of many other acknowledged experts and personal friends. Filled with humorous anecdotes, one liners and useful tips and much more, illustrated by the cartoonist Ian Dicks. 13. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 002778

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Toastmasters, Public Speaking 1852910127 Ian Dicks

ORRINGE, JOAN

Colostomy Jane

Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0863321976). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper with a quotation from Wordsworth and date in her hand. The author has often played walk on parts in television programmes and also in film commercials and posed for stills photographers as a character model. This is her FIRST BOOK based on her own experiences and is an hilarious tale of life in the hospital wards with Colostomy Jane taking centre stage, riding her bed pan with panache. She finally wins through against all operational odds to return to the bosom of her family, although bowled over by her prolonged hospitalisation. Her anecdotes offer a ready antidote for hypochondria and therapeutic treatment for those who find the whole subject of illness too unsavoury to stomach. A1C. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 001783

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Medical Humour, Nurse 0863321976

THE PYTHONS - CHAPMAN,GRAHAM AND CLEESE, JOHN AND GILLIAM, TERRY AND IDLE, ERIC AND JONES, TERRY AND PALIN, MICHAEL

The Pythons - Chapman,Graham and Cleese, John and Gilliam, Terry and Idle, Eric and Jones, Terry and Palin, Michael

London, Orion. 2003, First. (ISBN: 0752852930). Hard Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy whose only fault is a thin line of light indentation to front of dustjacket and to front board. A large format volume of 359 pages. Here in their own words and never before published diary extracts, the men who made Monty Python reveal all - about each other, the making of the television series and the films. Profusely illustrated, it is the definitive Monty Python book. NOT BOOK CLUB EDITION PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 2.7 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST. 5. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 010386

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Keywords: Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Life of Brian, the Bowl of Life, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin 0752852930

SEARLE, RONALD

Something in the Cellar... Ronald Searle's Wonderful World of Wine

London, Souvenir Press. 1986, First. (ISBN: 0285627651). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A brilliant successor to 'The Illustrated Winespeak', its outrageously perceptive humour makes it a must for vintners and wine imbibers throughout the world. Ronald Searle, in his own inimitable way, introduces you to the time-honoured Wine Ceremonies of the World: from the USA (Blessing the Grapes - California Style) to the Far East (the Japanese Wine Ceremony); from Scotland (the Squeezing of the Bonnie Malted Grape) to South Africa (Colourful Ceremony of Offering Limited Recognition to the Black Grape)- and in passing, let him show you how many ways there are to open a bottle of wine. 25. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 010362

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Keywords: Wine Humour 0285627651

SEELY, HART (COMPILED AND EDITED BY)

Pieces of Intelligence - the Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld

London, Simon and Schuster. 2003, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. Until now, the poetry of Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld has been hidden, 'embedded' within comments made at press briefings and in interviews. His preferred medium is the spoken word, and his audience has been limited to hard-bitten reporters and hard-core watchers of C-SPAN. Hart Seely uncovers the gems hidden within hundreds of hours of Rumsfeld commentary, in the form of Zen verse, haiku, s-onnets, lyric poetry and free verse. The result is a hilarious and irreverently revealing book both by and about one of the world's most powerful men - funny but deeply worrying how he came to be in the position he did. B2E. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 008301

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Sayings of Donald Rumsfeld Us Secretary of Defence

SKINNER, CORNELIA OTIS

The Ape in Me

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company. 1959, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Alajalov. Stated First Printing. True First Edition. Brown and pink titles with charicature of the author on yellow cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but a little light bumping to spine tail. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked apart from a small mark to closed fore edge. Dustjacket is price clipped with a little wear to top and bottom. The author an actress, writer and monologuist noted for her humorous pen and verbal slapstick presents twelve delightful sketches describing the hazards of being born a mimic and being tall. Travel in Japan had it's traumas as she notes that not having the grace, like Japanese women, to rise from the kneeling position, she reverts to the ape in trying to get erect, scuttling about on all fours until she finds a lever like a chair with which to haul herself up. Embellished with drawings by Alajalov. 11. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004031

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Humour, Travel in Japan, Hazard of Being Tall Alajalov