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RUDE TALES AND GLORIOUS Being the Only True Account of Diverse Feats of Brawn and Bawd Performed By King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
by Seare, Nicholas
- Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Near Good
- Published
- 1983
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780517549865
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$31.86
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New York: Crown Pub, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good +/Near Good. Bramhall, William. Humorous Retelling of the Arthurian Tales. Illustrated in B&W by William Bramhall. 207 p.pages, 540g, 8 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions except old penciled price on ffep. Jacket has a closed tear 4" long on left side, which also goes across spine, and another closed tear, 1… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$31.86
RUDE TALES AND GLORIOUS Being the only true account of diverse feats of brawn and bawd performed by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
by Seare, Nicholas
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 1983
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- Hard Cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$31.86
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Humorous retelling of the Arthurian Tales. Illustrated by William Bramhall.
207. p.pages, 540g, 8 1/2" tall.
No inscriptions except old penciled price on ffep.
Jacket has a closed tear 4" long on left side, which also goes across spine. Also another closed tear, 1 1/2" long, near fore corner. ( All repaired from inside with clear tape. ) Unclipped. Item Price
NZ$31.86
New Bats in Old Belfries
by Bowra, Maurice
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- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Published
- 2005
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- Cloth
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$42.49
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Humorous Verse. Published in assiciation with Wadham College. Edited by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes. Introduction Julian Mitchell.
167 p.pages, 400g, 8" tall.
Gift inscription and penciled bookseller note on ffep. No other inscriptions.
Jacket unclipped. Protected in removable, clear plastic wrapper. Item Price
NZ$42.49
SLIGHTLY FOXED BUT STILL DESIRABLE
by Searle, Ronald
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- 2015
- Binding
- Hardback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$42.49
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Searle's hilarious cartoons in Colour with witty Captions.
White cover illustrated with library scene on front.
128 p.pages, 9" tall.
No inscriptions. Nice clean copy.
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NZ$42.49
Cage Me a Peacock
by Noel Langley
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1949
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- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$4.25
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London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1949. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 215 Pages, some foxing to some pages. Cover is sun faded at spine and around edges Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Item Price
NZ$4.25
PUNCH Cartoon Diary
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Published
- 1977
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- Decorative Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$10.62
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London: Punch Publications, 1977. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Diary Format Book. 2 0r 3 Days to a Page to the left hand pages and Cartoons on the right hand Pages. Unused, nothing written in by previous owner. Book has a decorative Red cloth cover with a comical figure and Punch Diary 1977 in Gold. Dustjeacket has a few… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$10.62
Women & Suoer Women
by Jilly Cooper
- Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1974
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780413322609
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$2.12
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London: Eyre Methuen, 1974. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Timothy Jaques. Jilly Cooper now turns her Forked Typewriter onto Her Own Sex." 96 Pages, illustrated with B&W Drawings. Slight tear to cover at top of spine otherwise in very nice condition. No Previous Owner's Name. Light volume so there will be a Postage discount. Size: 8vo - over… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$2.12
The Comic History of Rome
by Gilbert Abbott a Beckett
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- Used - Near Very Good
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- Decorative Cloth
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$74.35
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London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Decorative Cloth. Near Very Good. John Leech. Undated, 19th Century. Humerous Satire on Roman History in the PUNCH style. Illustrated with 10 Full Page Engraved, Hand Coloured Plates by John Leech + Many other B&W Humerous Drawings. 308 Pages. All Page edges Gilt.Red cloth with blind stamped border and Gilt Comic Illustrations to… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$74.35
RISING DAMP The Complete Scripts
by Chappell, Eric
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2002
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- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$53.11
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Granada, 2002. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. All 4 Series of the British Sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter as Rigsby. Illustrated with Colour Photos. Red cloth cover with large Gilt Lettering on spine. 543 Pages, 1.1 Kilos, 9 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions. Very slight edgewear to Jacket. Not clipped, original price £20.00. Size: 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$53.11
The Bon Gaultier Ballads (the Book of Ballads )
by Bon Gaultier ( Sir Theodore Martin & William Aytoun )
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1889
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- Decorative Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$36.11
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Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Doyle, Leech & Crowquill. Fifteenth Edition. Ballads Illustrated with many Humerous Drawings. Frontish is a Full Page Comic Illustration of a seated Writer wearing a Fez. 292 Pages + Publisher's adverts. Red cloth Cover with Bright Gilt Figure (as on Frontis) on Front with black… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$36.11
PUNCH Vol XXV
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1853
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- Decorative Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$31.86
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The Office, Fleet Street, London: Punch, 1853. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Includes Punch's Almanac for 1854. 264 Pages. Illustrated with many B&W Drawings. Pages in nice, clean condition, only an occassional spot of browning. Brownish Green cloth cover with a rippling pattern. Some wear to corners and top & bottom of spine. Gilt Lettering & lines to… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$31.86
REALLY RURAL : Peculiar Country Ways and How to Embrace Them
by Wilks, Janey
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Published
- 2009
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- Cloth
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$12.75
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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 2009. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Hilarious collection of Anecdotes, Keen Observation and the Author's experience. Many charming Sepia illustrations throughout. Green cloth cover with Gilt Lettering on spine. 8 1/2" Tall, 247 Pages, 540g. No inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Item Price
NZ$12.75
PUNCH or The London Charivari Vol XXX
- Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1856
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- Decorative Cloth
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$31.86
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The Office, Fleet Street, London: Punch, 1856. Decorative Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. PUNCH Vol 30. Includes Punch's Almanac for 1856. 110 pages in very nice clean condition, only an occassional spot of browning. Illustrated with many B&W Drawings. Green cloth cover decorated with a fine floral design in relief all over cover. Gilt Lines & Lettering to… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$31.86
Mr Punch's Cavalcade, a Revue of 30 Years, with 209 Illustrations & Frontispiece in Colour. Vol 1 in "The New Punch Library
by J. A. Hammerton (Editor)
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- Used - Near Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- Cloth
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$10.62
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London: The Educational Book Company Ltd. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Undated, circa 1930s. Frontis is a Tipped in piece with 5 comic illiustrations in colour. First Volume in "The New Punch Library" where "Mr Punch is concerned mainly with the graver things of life, the governance of nations, vital episodes of modern history, the passing of the… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$10.62
Dumb Britain (Pivate Eye)
by Berkman
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 2007
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$8.50
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London: Private Eye, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine. Grizelda. Real Contestants, Real Quiz Shows, Real Answers, Real Dumb!" 95 Pages. No inscriptions Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Item Price
NZ$8.50
PICTURES FROM PUNCH: All 6 Volumes bound in 2 Books. Vols 1 - 6 Complete
- Condition
- Used - Near Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Good
- Published
- 1894
- Binding
- Half-Leather
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$191.19
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8,9,10 Bouveries St. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co, 1894. Half-Leather. Near Good/Near Good. Leech, John: Keene, Charles; Du Maurier, George; Tenniel, John & Others. Delightful collection of the hilarious Illustrations from PUNCH, in contemporary Dark Green 1/2 Leather Bindings, with Green Fishskin textured cloth, Leather Corners, 5 Raised Bands to Spines. Volumes I - III in the first… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$191.19
PUNCH BOOK OF UTTERLY BRITISH HUMOUR
by DAVID THOMAS
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1989
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$4.78
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London: Guild Publishing, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 176 pages, Illustrated with cartoons. Nice clean book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Item Price
NZ$4.78
Peter Cagney's Second Treasury of Wit and Humour
by Peter Cagney
- Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1967
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- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$4.25
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Preston: A Thomas & Co, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Black Cloth Cover with Gilt Lettering to Spine. 365 Pages. Previous owner's name on rear endpaper. Some creasing to spine and corners a little bumped. A stain on the Contents page has bled through in the a few preceeding and following pages but all the… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$4.25
The Groucho Letters
by Marx, Groucho
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Published
- 1970
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$4.25
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London: Sphere Books, 1970. Paperback. Good+. Hilarious letters written by Groucho Marx to everyone from the President of the United States to his Daughter's Boyfriend. e.g. "I eat like a Vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there." 251 Pages. No inscriptions. Spine creased. Pages a little age darkened. 7" Tall. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$4.25
GILES: Sunday Express and Daily Express Cartoons; Fifteenth Series
by Giles
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Published
- 1960
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Penzance, Cornwall, GBR
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NZ$8.50
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London: Daily Express, 1960. Soft cover. Good. Giles. Introduction by Bud Flanagan. Landscape Format Cartoon Book, 7 3/4" Tall x 10 1/4" wide. 2 creases to front cover. No inscriptions. Title page not price clipped, Original price 4/6. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Item Price
NZ$8.50