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New York: Dover, 1962. 216 pp + publisher's catalog, 8vo (8 7/16" H). Profusely illustrated with Busch's b&w cartoons. Bilingual text (English/German). "Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), endowed with an equipotent facility with sketch-pad and rhyming dictionary, created during his career some of the most arresting sketches and drollest verses the world has ever seen. Few men since his time have shown the same ability to match simple yet penetrating pictures with rollicking, quotable verse. In his native Germany he is still by all odds the best-loved creator of illustrated light verse. (Many of his pithy aphorisms have long since become folk sayings among the Germans.) The variety of tone and subject matter is wide: Busch is in turn malevolent, jovial, sardonic, diabolical and even bloodthirsty as he castigates hypocrisy, stodginess, stupidity, egotism, drunkenness, and other human foibles. The English translations are both ingenious and faithful; in most cases they are the first English… Leer más

Toronto: Doubleday, 1989. 346 pp, 9 1/4" H. "(C)ontinues the well-established tradition for humour and adventure as Bartholomew Bandy pursues his mad destiny in India. It's 1925 and Bandy is working for the Maharajah of Jhamjarh, trying to set up and operate a new air force while sidestepping the short-sighted protests of the British government in India. The new air force certainly comes in handy when the nefarious neighboring state of Khaliwar decides to attack. But they haven't counted on Jhamjarh's secret weapon - the unorthodox methods and outrageous behavior of Bartholomew Bandy. Despite these distractions, the mystical visions of India have their effect on Bandy, leaving him a changed man. The underlying element of anger which has always been a part of his humor is finally resolved - which makes for a very satisfactory ending to the story of Bartholomew Bandy." Light edge wear at top/bottom of spine, very small scuff on front board near spine. Dust jacket has… Leer más

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1927. 312 pp + 8 pages of ads, 7 5/8" H, green boards, black lettering/decoration on spine, black lettering/ border on front board. "Meet Mr. Mulliner and the spirits soar upwards. He relates some truly remarkable adventures. He is blessed, too, with a bevy of priceless relatives who keep the ball of fun rolling in no uncertain fashion. There is nephew Lancelot, cousin Clarence, the bulb-squeezer or photographer, nephew George, cursed with a terrible stammer, and brother Wilfred who was clean bowled over by Miss Angela Purdue. In this bright company no one can fail to be amused." Interior - light browning to pages and endpapers, small soft crease at top edge of pages up to p.160, crease and tiny tear at top edge of pages 303 to end of book with slight migration into previous few pages. Exterior - light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, darkening to top of text block and spine, small light stain on front boards, light edge wear to boards, moderate browning to… Leer más

London: Gerald Duckworth, 1950. 63 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H) - black lettering on spine and front board, black and dark green illustration on front board. B&w illustrations. A comic alphabet in rhyme. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - browning to covers - slightly darker on spine, very small light red stain on front hinge, light soiling lines down rear board.. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by B.T.B..

London: Century, 1985. 173 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w cartoons. "Readers who enjoyed 'Tales From the Mess' will be glad to know that that collection by no means exhausted its compiler's rich fund of anecdotes about the absurder a spects of life in the British army. Further researches have enabled Miles Noonan to assemble this sequel which again, while in no way reducing our admiration for the Nation's armed forces, will not encourage us to regard them with excessive solemnity. Once again the settings of the tales range geographically from Malaya to Ireland and from South Africa to Liverpool and historically from Victorian times to the present day, and once again Miles Noonan does not vouch for their absolute unvarnished truthfulness." Book very slightly cocked. Dust jacket has very light edgewear/wrinkling, minor browning at top edge.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good.

Mississauga, Ontario: Poniard, 1996. 265 pp, 7" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w humorous drawings by H.W. McVickar. A comic biography of Napoleon from infancy in Corsica to his new emperorship in Hades. Interior - clean and tight with no previous owner ship marks. Exterior - minor soiling on rear cover, slight soiling to edges of textblock.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by H.W. McVickar..

London: Methuen, 1950. 465 pp, 12mo (7 1/16" H) - red cloth with white lettering on spine. 24 colour plates (all present) and numerous b&w woodcuts. A classic comic novel of the "horse and hounds" set in 19th century England. Previous owner's name and small bookstore label on front pastedown, book lightly cracked at pages 310/311 (pages holding firmly), light edgewear, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine.. 9th Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne..

New York: Cupples & Leon, 1928. 48 pp, 9 3/4" H x 10" W. Card covers with cloth tape spine. B&w comic strips. Mutt and Jeff revisited the First World War, play golf, take a trip to Mexico, etc. Interior - light to moderate browning to the pages, several taped tears/creases on the inside of the covers, the last two pages have pulled away from the staples but are holding firmly in the binding, small soft corner creases to the pages, light wear at the staple locations. Exterior - creasing to the covers - also a crease down the centre of the front cover, light to moderate edge wear, light brownig and some foxing marks, a few soiling marks and moderate rubbing, an area of dye run on the front cover.. Not Signed. Soft Cover. Good-/No Jacket. Illus. by Bud Fisher..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. 209 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "Once again, George MacDonald Fraser turns from the gloriously scandalous Flashman sagas to chronicle the hilarious postwar adventures of a certain very Scottish Highland Regiment, which first swung into view in 'The General Danced at Dawn' and is the home of the shambling Tartan Caliban, Private McAuslan, the Dirtiest Soldier in the World, and his sorely tried commander, Lieutenant Dand MacNeil. Here are further astonishing episodes as McAuslan and MacNeill - Scottish Piltdown Man versus that flower of regimental dash and cunning - are pitted against each other in: The Desert Mystery of Port Yarhuna; The Great Regimental Quiz; McAuslan in Love; And His Finest (and Funniest) Hour - as caddy to that rugged Caledonian Eminence, The Regimental Sergeant Major, in a golf game whose ferocity and intrigue make the Open Championship at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in St. Andrews pale into oblivion. A Highland Fling of a book,… Leer más

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1981. 220 pp, 8 5/8" H. "McGruber is a retired detective with everything a man could want - a home in the Muskoka woods, a charming wife, good health and two grandchildren. But McGruber is restless - and stirred to dream of something more - of palm trees and surf, of yachts and fast cars, of young women with unlined faces and eager bodies. And then, in a flash, (he) realizes it doesn't have to be a dream. It can all be his - but only if he can pull of the Perfect Crime. This is the beginning of a rollicking, non-stop escapade that introduces the hapless McGruber to a world of deception and devious characters - and an insurance investigator who hires (him) to solve his own crime." Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flsp-folds.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by David Shaw cover art..

London: Collins Clear-Type Press 388 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H), thin burgundy leather over card covers/spine - gold lettering and decoration on spine, top edge gilt - in slipcase. Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone illustrations, including frontispiece, decorated title page. Contents: Novels by Eminent Hands (George de Barnwell / Codlingsby / Lords and Liveries / Barbazure / Phil. Fogarty / Crinoline / The Stars and Stripes / A Plan for a Prize Novel); Men's Wives (Mr and Mrs Frank Berry / Dennis Haggarty's Wife / The Ravenswing); The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan. Very light browning to pages, light edge wear, some very light small rub marks on front cover, light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block. Slipcase has very light edge wear.. Full-Leather. Very Good. Illus. by Victor Prout..

Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1976. 96 pp, 8" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w cartoons. "(A) classic civics-class lesson on the process of American politics. One of its most fascinating characters is one P.T. Bridgeport, who reveals a remarkable ability for puffery and vacuous statements of political fact. And Pogo, in remaining immune to the political flu, raises serious questions about the American way of politics: What are the responsibilities of the candidate to the people? And, as important, what are the responsibilities of the people to the candidate?" Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light browning - mainly on the spine, minor edge wear, tiny closed tear with crease on fore edge of front cover, small bump on bottom of text block/rear cover (effects approx. page 60 to end of book), spine is flat with a very faint crease.. Not Signed. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good-. Illus. by Walt Kelly & Selby Kelly..

London / Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1912. 370 pp + (6) pp publisher's advertisements, 8 1/4" H. Medium brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. 16 tissue-covered, tipped in colour plates, including frontispiece - all present. Pastedown colour illustration on front of dust jacket. Contents: Preface; Introductory; On Religious Feeling and Religious Observances; On Old Scottish Conviviality; On the Old Scottish Domestic Servant; On Humour Proceeding from Scottish Language, Including Scottish Proverbs; On Scottish Stories of Wit and Humour; Conclusion; Appendix; Index. Book has a light cigarette odour, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, small bump with varying creasing/damage at fore-edge of pages 57 to 119, very small area of damage or hole at top corner of last four page leaves and rear free endpaper, some text pages and some tissue pages have very light browning in margins, moderate browning to fore-edge and bottom of text… Leer más

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1973. 300 pp, 8 3/8" H. "Here are the further misadventures of Bartholomew Bandy, World War I Ace extraordinaire introduced in 'Three Cheers for Me'. Bandy is once again lending his peculiar talents to the war effort. Fate has smiled (perhaps leered) on him and he is now a Lt. Colonel and liaison officer in London for the Secretary of State for Air. Most of Bandy's liaisons leave something to be desired. A penniless Bolshevik spy bullies him into buying a gaudy painting by an upstart named Matisse, a buxom widow makes forward advances at him under his fiancee's nose, and he's almost lynched when the Prime Minister, Lloyd George, picks him to make a speech denouncing the British Chief of Staff. Instead he's sent off to the trenches of France - to join a freewheeling bicycle brigade with unorthodox methods of killing Germans and staying in high spirits. Bandy is also subjected to a number of other horrors: an evening in a Dublin pub… Leer más

Rome, Italy : No. 2 Canadian Public Relations Group, 1945. 63 pp, 9 1/4" H. "A portfolio of (b&w) cartoons drawn on the Italian battle front especially for The Maple Leaf, Canadian Army newspaper". As a sargeant with the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, the 32-year-old cartoonist participated in the invasion of Sicily and served through four months of the Italian Campaign before joining the Maple Leaf staff in January of (1944). Soft creases at the corners of the pages, tiny piece missing at the bottom corner of the first two pages, tiny tear with crease at top edge of last page - archivally taped, light toning to pages, previous owner's name at the top of the front cover. Covers have light to moderate edge wear, light soiling, some tiny light stains, creases/wear at corners.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good-. Illus. by Bing Coughlin..

Fleming H. Revell, New York, 1913. 61 pp, small 8vo (7 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Tissue-covered frontispiece and 3 additional b&w photographs. When a mountain family receives agricultural products from their "Uncle Sam in Washington", they feel obliged to visit him to giv e their thanks. Small foxing mark and small corner crease on frontispiece, tiny chip at fore-edge of half-title page, minor browning to endpapers, light browning to edges of textblock and edges of boards, small watermark on rear board, sma l l t e a r a t top of hinges, wrinkling at top of spine, small areas of insect damage at top edge of front board. Dust jacket has insect damage, chips, tears and wrinkling at edges; moderate soiling and browning; some small stains on front panel e dg e s - no w i n mylar sleeve. Good/Fair.

Boston: Bullfinch Press / Little, Brown, 1997. 63 pp, oblong small 8vo (7 1/2" H x 7 3/4" D). Beautifully illustrated in color. "Dive into the wacky waters with America's favorite humorist and poet extraordinaire, Ogden Nash. His playful and often preposterous poetry celebrates aquatic creatures both above and beneath the water's surface. From sharks and shad to swans and prawns, Nash cleverly captures the whimsy of the denizens of the deep while delivering his pearls of wit with his usual panache and splash! This irresistible collection of twenty-seven of Nash's finest is illustrated by botanical and zoological illustrator Katie Lee. Lee's exquisite illustrations are the perfect accompaniment to Nash's work, subtly playing off each poem's twists and turns." Dust jacket has light wrinkling at top of spine and flap-folds, light line indentation on front panel and two small line rub marks on rear panel.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good-. Illus. by Katie Lee..

London: Warner, 1996. 225 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H). "Eric Davidson's second chapter in the age of Schweik - the era when the ordinary squaddie could, through a bit of earthy judgement and a lot of divine luck, bungle his way through World War II - safe in the knowledge that the enemy would have it own ration of Schweiks, similar common men like himself caught up in forces beyond their making or control. Men for whom war 'like life, was all make-do and mend, try all and error'. 'V for Schweik' celebrates the role of these Schweik-successors in a splendid new selection of tales. Covering the period from D-Day to VE Day, involving the valorous activities of men like Magna Carter, Heavy Wates and Huckleberry Flynn, these ten stories salute the spirit of the legendary Good Soldier with great energy and humour; tales often taller than tall, but always honouring the essential Schweikness of their heroes." Interior - tiny pen correction to typo in foreward, otherwise clean… Leer más

Toronto: Dominion Bureau of Circulation, 1929. 66 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H) - pale orange boards with red spine, black and red lettering/decoration on front board. Exotic 'reptile skin' patterned endpapers in shades of brown, green, peach and gold. Profusely illustrated with b&w comic illustrations. When travelling salesman Zep Hawker pulls into Mud Creek with his "cure-alls", we meet villagers like Kiss-Proof Kelly, Eppy Demmick, Bacteria Bates, Hippo Potts and Daley Tipple - and he gets run out of town on a rail! Title page has become detached from the staples but is still firmly held to the binding (manufacturing flaw), light liquid mark at bottom of page 53 - tiny mark on pages 54 & adjacent picture page, light to moderate edgewear, a few light scuffs and small area of soiling on rear cover, minor general soiling, very light browning to edges of textblock, very small light stain at front cover fore-edge, book now protected in stiff mylar sleeve.. Hard Cover. Very… Leer más

New York: Henry Holt, 1986. Unpaginated, 10" H x 7" D. Profusely illustrated with b&w cartoon strips, featuring Lucy and the rest of the Peanuts gang. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, slight curvature to book.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Charles M. Schulz..