Nice edition of Rabelais' works, primarily Gargantua and Pantagruel, translated into English. Features b/w illustrations by Frank C. Pape, including terrific, humourous plates as well as images and decorations within the text. large 8vo. Top edge tinted. [more...]
Humourous tales of animals in army barracks. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration. With b/w illustrations by Shepard. DJ is sunned to spine. Rubbed to edges. Toning to ffep. Very light foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Cheeky sketches from English history told in verse by Seccombe. With b/w illustrations throughout plus chromolithographic plate. Oblong 4to. Rubbing and chipping to edges. Splitting to joints, fraying to spine. Hinges cracked and binding loosening. Tonin [more...]
The Guinness Doctor's book for 1956. An annual promotional exercise devised by the agency SH Benson, where humourous pamphlets were sent to Doctors so as, they say, to solicit recommendations that 'Guinness is good for you.' A witty pastiche of notable vers [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth binding of Hood's humourous poems with b/w illustrations. Marbled boards. rubbing and wear to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Contents clean and binding tight. Good. [more...]
Charming picture book, featuring Wood's colour illustrations of vulpine shenanigans. Some toning to covers. Rubbing to spine with small tear to top. Contents clean. Good. [more...]
Collection of humourous verse on various subjects, with illustrations by Joan Hassall. No date but c. 1940. Rubbing to edges. Price stamps to cover. Toning to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1920. From the little wonder books series. A tale of a a boy and his horse. Told in verse with 30 colour illustrations by G. E. Shepheard. Small 12mo. Mounted illustration to cover and illustrated end-papers. Rubbing to joints with loss to t [more...]
W. S. Gilberts beloved light verse featuring his own b/w illustrations. Elements from the poems would go on to inspire his work with Arthur Sullivan. Top edge gilt. Light marking to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
First Edition. A second collection of humourous articles about military life that first appeared in Punch magazine. Some rubbing and tearing to top and tail of DJ spine. Light marking and toning to covers. Mild foxing to top edge. But contents clean and [more...]
Collection of verse and writings about Ants, with colour illustrations. Toning to spine. Foxing to page edges and end-papers. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Leather edition of Thackery's book of snobs, a series of satirical pieces first published in Punch. RUbbing and cracking to hinge. But binding holding firm, contents clean. Fair condition. [more...]
Third Edition. Collection of humourous articles about military life that first appeared in Punch magazine. Some rubbing and tearing to top of DJ spine. Light marking and toning to covers. Mild foxing to top edge. Tanning to page edge but contents clean a [more...]
Generously illustrated edition of Dobson's biography of Hogarth. With dozens of b/w images of his art plus a thorough bibliography and catalogue of his output. Rubbing to top and tail of spine with some fraying. Previous owner's name to ffep. Tanning to pa [more...]
Collections of short stories of O. Henry, american master of the short story. With frontispiece. Faux leather blue cloth. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
Economic wartime edition of Edward Lear's nonsensical verse. With copious b/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Bright and clean. Very good condition. A nice copy. [more...]
Charming take on 'Gentleman Prefer Blondes', told from the perspective of a dog called Remus. With b/w illustrations by Wilma Hickson. Dust jacket is torn with loss to edges. Booksellers label removed with loss. Red cloth boards are sunned to spine. But con [more...]
Handsome Folio Society edition of Goldsmith's letters, purportedly from an outsider, satirizing the manners of the English. Quarter cloth with marbled boards and decoration by Cecil Keeling. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some light toning and rubbing [more...]
The complete collection of Clerihews, an invention of the author, being a four line biographical poem. Illustrated here with drawings by G. K. Chesterton. DJ has tears to edges with minor loss. Contents clean and binding tight. Good+ [more...]