Dodman Books

So Ist Das Leben - Eben!

Wolf Von Schilgen · 2008

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Salzburg, Continent, 1st Edition, Fine, clean, crisp and bright volume from the noted Austrian satirist. Smart blue boards with bright gilt titling to spine. Fine unclipped d/j. German language. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 216pp, F...

FRED BASSET The Hound That's Almost Human! No. 30

Alex Graham · 1976

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London, Associated Newspapers Group, 1st Edition, All in VG clean and bright internal order. Light wear to covers and colour fading near spine but otherwise in VG condition. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 67, Alex Graham, Very Good, No...

Pure Derry

[Ciarán Murray] · 2013

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Affectionate though robust satire on Derry life. All in fine, clean and bright internal order. Card covers are smart and crisp with coffee spill motif part of cover design rather than damage. 8vo. 120pp, Near Fine, No Jacke...

A Basinful Of Fun March / April 1952 [Two Issues]

1952

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Leeds, F Youngman, Two spring 1952 issues of the mildly saucy 'family magazine' A Basinful Of Fun. Entertainingly lowbrow throughout. All in general good order bar some minor damp staining towards rear of March issue. Some wear and marking to covers. See what stood for 'fun' i...

A Little Book Of Bores

Oliver Herford · 1906

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Gay And Hancock, ND. c.1906. Entertaining illustrated verses, with Herford's idiosyncratic humour surviving well across the years. All in VG internal order, however, binding opening at title page with small amateur paper repair holding all together. Light wear and a li...

OUT OF THE HURLY-BURLY; Or, Life In An Odd Corner

Max Adeler · 1895

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London, Ward, Lock & Bowden, ND. c.1895. "Author's edition, with copyright preface and nearly four hundred illustrations." Attractive edition of Adeler's most popular work. Stock lightly toned, moreso to endpapers, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Illustrated boards rat...

High Life Low Life

Taki; Jeffrey Bernard; Cosmo Landesman (ed) · 1981

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Jay Landesman, 1st Edition, Thoroughly entertaining compilation of Spectator columns, with an introduction by Richard West. All in VG crisp, clean and bright internal order, with just a little dust spotting to top of block. Smart blue cloth, with bright gilt titling to...

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND SOUTH KENSINGTON A Book Of Nicolas Bentley's Pictures

Nicolas Bentley · 1940

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London, Methuen & Co, 1st Edition, Entertaining collection from the instantly recognisable hand of Nicolas Bentley. Bar some light toning and a couple of minor marks, all in VG internal order. No inscriptions. Light edgewear to blue paper-covered boards. Good unclipped d/j wor...

FOUR HUNDRED HUMOROUS ILLUSTRATIONS With Portrait And Biographical Sketch

George Cruikshank · 1900

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, ND.c.1900. Surely at least one of them will raise a smile? Maybe not. stock toned and a little marked to block edge, but in general all in good internal order. Clip from book catalogue for this title, tipped in to fep. Red cloth...

The Soap Letters

Henry Root · 1988

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Michael O'Mara Books, 1st Edition, In which William Donaldson, aka Henry Root, has another go at the successful formula of The Henry Root Letters, this time centered on the development and production of the fictional (and extraordinary) TV series 'Crack Up'. Once again...

Lloyd George By Mr Punch

W Algernon Locker (intro) · 1922

£22.50 (€26.97 | $29.73 | ¥4,748)

London, Cassell & Company, 1st Edition, Bar minor foxing to edge of block all is in VG clean and bright internal order for this collection of political cartoons drawn from the pages of Punch. No inscriptions. Very smart publisher's boards with red cloth and gilt titling to spi...

How To Be A Genius

Chris Garratt; Mick Kidd; David Stafford · 1994

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London, Methuen, 1st Edition, Surprisingly scarce comic guide to genius in the arts. In VG clean crisp and bright internal order. Light wear to pictorial card covers. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 128pp, Very Good, No Jacket,...

Fifty Caricatures

Max Beerbohm · 1913

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, William Heinemann, 1st Edition, Excellent volume of Beerbohm drawings, mostly tipped on to card leaves (bar the final two printed directly to the page) and in VG internal order. Gilt decoration and titling to green boards is dulled. 8vo. , Very Good, No Jacket, 8vo - o...

Snippings From Surtees

R S Surtees · 1906

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

York, John Sampson, 1st Edition, Attractively produced collection of excellent quotations from the works of Surtees. Occasional foxing, but otherwise in good internal order, however fep removed. Pencil signature to first blank. Gilt-decorated red cloth a little marked and dull...

The Comic Annual (1832)

Thomas Hood · 1832

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Charles Tilt, The third annual volume of Hood's humourous essays and illustrations. Lacks title page and frontispiece, but otherwise complete. Occasional foxing and marking, but in general good order throughout. Gilt to all edges. Neatly rebound in brown buckram with o...

Soliloquies In The Bath

Frederick [Frigyes] Karinthy · 1937

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, William Hodge And Company, 1st Edition, Exceptionally scarce collection of short and amusing essays, often with a pertinent moral, by Karinthy, the originator of the six degrees of separation concept. Translated into English by Lawrence Wolfe and accompanied with small...

Ghastly Holidays [SIGNED]

David Williams · 2019

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,693)

London, Oort Publications, 1st Edition, "A global poetic tour of catastrophic trips", signed by Williams to title page and in near-fine, clean, crisp and bright order throughout. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. ix + 35pp, Signed by Auth...

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

Anon. [James Beresford] · 1856

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

New York, Dewitt & Davenport, 1st Edition, Some marking and occasional signatures in coloured pencil in text render this close to a reading copy, though none the less interesting for that. Signed in pencil to fep by V Gilmer, Nelson County Virginia. Gilt and blind embossed bro...

TRAVELLERS' PIE A Collection Of Stories And Things

Jamais · 1928

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Boscombe, Boscombe Printing Co., 1st Edition, Scarce, indeed seemingly otherwise unknown, collection of jokes and 'amusing' stories for and about commercial travellers. Paper cover loose at staples, but still holding. Internally lightly tanned., Fair, No Jacket, 8vo - over 7¾ ...

...and the gatepost

Fougasse · 1940

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1st Edition, Splendid collection of Fougasse's 'Careless Talk Costs Lives' illustrations, included with the broadcast talk 'Strictly Between These Four Walls'. 'Reminder' stamp in place as called for. All in VG internal order, clean and bright. Illustr...