Search Results: Humour and Satire from Andmeister Books

Berlin: Dr. Selle-Eysler, 1928. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 230mm Tall. Of All Things - An album of work of Paul Simmel, one of Germany's most successful cartoonists and caricaturists of the 1920s. 64 pages. Text in German. Dirt marks on covers. Name in ink on title page. .

London: Macdonald, 1956. Book. Good. Hardcover. Seventh Impression. 200mm Tall, 8vo. Cartoons by the splendid Ronald Searle. Seventh impression. 96pp. Fading to top edges of covers and browning to free endpapers..

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 205mm Tall, 8vo. Third impression. 220 pages. Black cloth covers. Remnants of small label on front pastedown; some browning to pastedowns and free endpapers. Dust jacket has small tear and chips on top edge.

London: John Westhouse, 1945. Book. Illus. by R. A. Brandt. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 220mm Tall, 8vo. Splendid illustrations. 188 pages A little foxing on some pages; covers shelfworn and marked..

London: The Jazz Book Club By Arrangement with Peter Owen, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 205mm Tall, 8vo. Described in the Introduction as " a sniffle round the record shelves - in a style which grew out of the joint authors' need to scrape a living by writing record sleeves". Nice illustrations in the text. 128 pages. Lower cover corners a bit bumped..

London: The Times Publishing Company Limited, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 220mm Tall, 8vo. Selections from the Times 1953. 168 pages. Cover corners and base of spine bumped..

London: Lindsay Drummond, 1942. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 250mm Tall, 4to. Sorry, but you will help laughing. Fading to spine and cover edges. Previous owners signature on front pastedown, stamp on front free endpaper and title page .

London: heinemann/quixote Press, 1981. Book. Illus. by Martin Honeysett. Very Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 220mm Tall, 8vo. Jogging From Memory was a large dose of laugh-tonic from television and radio's funniest practising doctor - Dr Buckman. 137 pages. Dust jacket has wear and chips around edges and rubbed on front and back;.

London: Queen Anne Press, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 265mm Tall 4to. A collection of humour and wit by a variety of contributors. 159 pages. Illustrated. Creases to edges of dust jacket. Dedication to previous owner on front free endpaper..

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950. Book. Illus. by James Thurber. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 205mm Tall, 8vo. 102 pages. Wear to cover edges. Boots library label on front cover..

New York: The Citadel Press, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 190mm Tall. Signed by author on front free endpaper. viii, 128 pages. Dust jacket heavily worn to edges and extremities. Black cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Cover corners, top/base of spine bumped and worn. .

London: Faber & Faber, 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 210mm Tall, 8vo. 544 pages. A retired novelist, Mr Baldridge, is married to a millionairess, and life is respectable and comfortable until an early novel of his, Dixie, is discovered anew and it is considered a good possibility for a film. The film industry descends on Mr Baldridge... Cloth covers have brown marks..

London: Fourth Estate, 1993. Book. Illus. by David Austin. Very Good. Paperback. Another Edition. 200mm Tall, 8vo. Questions from puzzled Guardian readers with suggested answers by Guardian readers. Some slight soiling to covers.

Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1989. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Another Edition. 220mm Tall. An anti-Catholic play by Fielding, A reproduction of the first edition published 13th June 1732. introduction by Connie Capers Thorson. Includes bibliographical references. xiv, 40 pages From The Augustan Reprint Society series..

London: Willoughby and Co., 1111. Book. Illus. by Alfred Crowquill, John Phillips and Bonner. Fair. Hardcover. Edition Not Stated.. 230mm Tall, 8vo. 628 pages. [1849?] Illustrated with forty-one steel engravings and thirty-three wood cuts by Bonner. Green cloth covers with gilt title and decoration on spine, blind stamped decoration on front and back. Spine worn and torn at head/tail and joint of spine and front cover has 60mm crack with tears. Cover corners worn. Missing front free endpaper. Additional title page with engraving of Return to Dulwich is foxed. Hinge of title page badly cracked. All engravings have margins that are quite lightly to heavily browned and some are badly foxed. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

London: Private Eye/Andre Deutsch, 1982. Book. Illus. by Larry. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 170mm Tall, 16mo. Small inscription on inside front cover by previous owner..

London: James Ridgway, 1785. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 215mm Tall, 8vo. "A collection of satires and parodies by Richard Tickell and others, purporting to be the competitive essays of Thomas Warton's rivals for the laureatship." In one volume, pp v-xliv, 3-131, xxviii, 30-164. Rebound in plain grey boards. Title label pasted on front cover. Tears on title page and the following contents page have been repaired with Japanese paper, possibly when being rebound. Small loss, 10mm, at top of half-title page of Probationary Odes. Browning to title page and facing illustration of Rolliad Part I.

London: Punch, 1892. Book. Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 285mm Tall, 4to. Parody of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windemere's Fan on page 113 with the "Quite Too-Too Puffickly Precious!!" cartoon of Wilde. iv, 324 pages. Top corner of front and back cover faded and worn. Spine bumped top/base. .

London: At the Office of Punch, 1894. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 285mm Tall, 4to. With several references to Aubrey Beardsley with Beardsleyesque portraits by "Mortarthurio Whiskersly". iv, 312; iv, 312 pages including Index, followed by unpaginated Punch's Almanack for 1894 and Christmas Number. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. .

London: Punch, 1878. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 280mm Tall; 4to. Seventy-Fourth Volume. 312 pages. 3cm split to top of joint of spine to front cover, wear to cover extremities. 4cm loss to base of spine.