Marion Pitman

Some Notes On Lifemanship

STEPHEN POTTER · 1950

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis. 1950, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Lt-Col Frank Wilson. Book, Edges of covers damp stained, slight browning endpapers, dustwrapper a little worn, frayed on edges, bit faded on spine. Including further researches in Gamesmanship. Fairly Good/Fairly...

How to Live with a Working Wife : The Husband's Guide to Household Arts

JIM DOUGLAS · 1983

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Pan. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0330280929) Soft cover. Ill.: Jim Douglas. Book, Page edges slightly brown. Humourous self-help. Good/No Jacket.

The Bible for Motorists

"OLD JOWETT"; RICHARD INGRAMS AND BARRY FANTONI · 1970

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

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

This Pestered Isle

MEL CALMAN · 1973

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Times Newspapers. 1973, First. Soft cover. Ill.: Mel Calman. Book, Some foxing half-title. Collection of topical cartoons. Good/No Jacket.

Success, and How to be One

SIMON BOND · 1984

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Methuen. 1984, Reprint. Soft cover. Ill.: Simon Bond. Book, Some fading and discolouration of front cover. Cartoons. Good/No Jacket.

Yucky Ducky

DAVID HENRY WILSON · 1990

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London, Pan Piper. 1990, Reprint. Soft cover. Ill.: Jonathan Allen. Book, Corner front cover creased. "Ten funny, fiendish, sad and silly, nice and nasty tales". Fairly Good/No Jacket.

Squelches

BRANT HOUSE, EDITOR · 1956

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

New York, Ace. 1956, First. Soft cover. Ill.: Various. Book, Collection of retorts & put-downs, with cartoons. Covers bit worn, pages browning, a section detached from binding. but complete. Cartoonists include Wyma, Kiernan, Rea, Kaufman, Habbick, Markey, Cavalli, Tippit. Poo...

The Cautious Bachelor

SAREL EIMERL · 1958

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

London, Elek Books. 1958, First ?. Hardcover. Ill.: Grisha Dotzenko. Book, Spine bit faded, endpapers bit brown; dustwrapper worn and a little marked, split on spine. Red boards, 160 pages. Author's memoirs of his experiences with women in Britain and, mostly, in America. Miso...

The Bible - the Old Testament, According to Spike Milligan

SPIKE MILLIGAN · 1993

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London, Michael Joseph. 1993, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 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 ...

The Big Tomato - a satire of book publishing

RALEIGH TREVELYAN · 1966

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

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

A Basinful of Fun, No.41

VARIOUS · 1940

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Leeds, F. Youngman. 9999, Not Known. Soft cover. Ill.: Various. Book, 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 ...

In Praise of Humour

NEVILLE HILDITCH, EDITOR · 1949

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

London, Frederick Muller. 1949, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, An Anthology of Enjoyment. Coloured pictorial boards. 4.5 x 5.5 ins, 64 pages. Spine ends a little frayed, covers a little grubby, small scratch front cover, slight pencil marks title page. Cartoons by Bateman, Fo...

The Pick of Punch, an Annual Selection

1953

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1953, First Edition. Boards. Book, 7.5 x 10ins, 206 pages + index of artists. Dustjacket by Illingworth; contributors include: A. P. Herbert, John Betjeman, Angus Wilson, J. B. Boothroyd, E. V. Milner, Justin Richardson, Fougasse, Ronald Searle, Brockb...

The Punch Book of Inflation

WILLIAM DAVIS (EDITOR) · 1975

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Newton Abbot, David & Charles. 1975, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 7 x 10ins, 128 pages. Articles & cartoons by E. S. Turner, Murray Ball, Mahood, Graham, Sheridan Morley, David Taylor, Alan Coren, Honeysett, David Williams, Thelwell, Vincent Mulchrone, William Hardcastle, L...

Six Curtains for Stroganova

CARYL BRAHMS AND S. J. SIMON · 1953

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1953, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, Badly browned, and pages are crinkled on edges as if they have been damp but the covers have not, possibly result of sun on poor quality paper? otherwise ok. A sequel to A Bullet in the Ballet. Fair/No Jacket.

Is Sex Necessary? or why you feel the way you do

JAMES THURBER AND E. B. WHITE · 1960

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1960, Reprint. Paperback. Ill.: James Thurber. Book, Pages edges bit brown, covers creased a bit on corners, slight discolouration edge front cover. Penguin no. 1422. Good/No Jacket.

The Last Laugh, a completely new collection of funny old epitaphs

GAIL PETERSON · 1968

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Kansas City, Missouri, Hallmark. 1968, First. Cloth, 4.75" x 8". Ill.: John Trotta. Book, Black cloth with white decoration; illus. dustwrapper, 62 pages. Slight staining corners of endpapers and top edge of pages, small tear top of dustwrapper spine. Good/Good.

Mother Goose Rhymes (Censored)

KENDALL BANNING · 1959

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

London, Frederick Muller. 1959, Second Impression. Hardcover, 4.25" x 6.5". Book, Nursery rhymes with words blanked out; with commentary in footnotes. "Dedicated to The Censors, who have taught us how to read naughty meanings into harmless words" 32 pages, pictorial endpapers ...

Beyond the Headlines

TIMOTHY SHY · 1941

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1941, First. Soft cover. Book, 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. Fair/No Jacket.

The Time of Laughter

COREY FORD · 1970

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

London, Pitman. 1970, First GB. Hardcover. Book, A Sentimental Chronicle of the Twenties, The Humour and the Humorists. Introduction by Frank Sullivan. Recollections of American humorists of the 1920s, inc. Robert Benchley, Ring Lardner, Don Marquis, Dorothy Parker, James Thur...