Resultados de búsqueda: Humour from Dave Shoots, Bookseller

London: Max Parrish, 1954 Book. Illus. by Ronald Searle. Good Plus. Hardcover. Third Impression. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Black cloth on boards. Birthday note to previous owner. No other writing. DJ hand-soiled but complete. Molesworth of St. Custard's first appeared in Punch. 120 drawings. 106 pp..

London: Max Parrish, 1954 Book. Illus. by Ronald Searle. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Maroon cloth on boards. Gift note. DJ lightly hand-soiled. Second book in the Nigel Molesworth series. " How to be topp in English" is sure to please. 106 pp..

London: The Hogarth Press, 1952 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Impression. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Pink cloth on boards. Previous owner's bookplate. Humorous text in stream-of-consciousness style. 246 pp. Green was born in England in 1905 and died in 1973. Although his books did not sell in large numbers, his style was favoured by W.H. Auden and Rebecca West, among others..

Fredericton: Non Entity Press, 1985 Book. Illus. by Josh Beutel. Very Good. Soft cover. First. 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 Oblong. Josh Beutel's third book portrays former premier Richard Hatfield of New Brunswick. Beutel is known locally for his work as editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, which employment ceased several years ago. Beutel survived a defamation suit by Malcolm Ross, a former school teacher in Moncton who is described as a holocaust denier. Awarded $7500 from Beutel initially, Ross was later ordered by an appeals court to pay Beutel $5000 in costs, the initial suit having been quashed. Approx. 85 pp..

Port Sydney, ON: Upalong Enterprises, 1991 Book. Illus. by Brad and Chad Trask. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Printing. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.. The author gives as good as he got when he arrived from Newfoundland in 1964, and he's got the family involved ! However, not all the jokes are mean, and a note on the cover says, "Hey Toronto, Now It's Your Turn," so I guess that's an invitation to reply. 127 pp..

Saint John, N.B.: The Telegraph-Journal, 1981 Book. Illus. by Josh Beutel. Good Plus. Soft cover. First ( No Additional printings). 9"x9". Original illustrated soft cover. Ex-library. Beutel's first book of cartoons, with introduction by his editor, Fred Hazel. Political satire at its cleanest and best. Cover creased, with no marks or damage..

New York, NY: American News Company, Limited, of Canada, 1920 Book. Illus. by Bud Fisher. Good to Very Good. Card Covers. 10 x 10 Square. Colour cover backed in orange cloth. Text block intact but cover pulled away from staples, so glued. Interior images are black-and-white. Cover shows Mutt has tied Jeff to a chair, with a string from his tooth to a doorknob ! When someone knocks, Mutt shouts, "Come in !" Tiny worm hole in lower corner, not affecting text. Approximately 44 pp. of old-fashioned humour..

Glasgow: G.A.H. Douglas, et al Book. Good Minus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original grey cloth on boards. Cracked hinges have been glued. Interior clean and readable. Author grants permission to use any of the readings for free. 140 pp. plus testimonials. Cover grubby..

Boston: Henry A. Dickerman & Son, 1901 Book. Illus. by E.D. Allen. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gold on boards. Perpetual situation comedy seems to characterize the life of Ellery Wigglesworth, man-about-the-house (Accident-waiting-to-happen). Christmas might not be the best time to visit ! Edge and corner wear. Clean and readable inside. 369 pp..

Book. Illus. by Jeff Mitchel. Very Good. Soft cover. 8 1/2 x 11 Oblong. Original black and white cartoon softcover, staple-bound, backed in brown cloth tape. Unpaginated, but approx. 46 pp. Cartoons from single panels to four-in-a-series, arranged in two parallel lines. No information found from any source ! Minor cover soil, otherwise clean and sound..

Rome, Italy: No. 2 Canadian Public Relations Group, 1944 Book. Illus. by Bing Coughlin. Very Good. Soft cover. Third Printing of First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original buff colour illustrated card cover, stapled. The first album of a selection of Coughlin's cartoons presented by The Maple Leaf Newspaper. Covers hand-soiled. 63 pp..

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, & Company, Limited, 1949 Book. Illus. by Clair Stewart. Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original bright red cloth on boards. Follows his Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, which was well received. 248 pp..

Barrington, N.S.: Self Published, 1990 Book. Illus. by A.E. (Al) Wilson. As New. Soft cover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original tan illustrated softcover. Meet Manley and Experience, a loving couple of gulls whose favourite place in Barrington is the Old Woolen Mill. Fly with them as they observe humans in all their manifestations. Empathize with Manley as he visits the library in search of a bird book, only to be shocked by what humans are reading ! Experience consoles him, "Us birds is lucky, we'm don't hav'ta hobnob with humans." 79 pp. MULTIPLE COPIES AVAILABLE..

N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Company, 1908 Book. Illus. by Gordon H. Grant. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original illustrated beige cloth on boards, showing man in top hat and topcoat with cane. Another in the John Henry series of humourous slang. Some text in rhyme. Frontispiece and five additional drawings by Gordon H. Grant. No synopsis found. Scarce. 113 pp. plus several ads. Gutter crack pp. 110-111 glued..

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912 Book. Illus. by Albert Levering. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original brown cloth on boards. Humourous social commentary. Every one of these short stories ends with a moral. This book looks like nearly new except for rubbed spine title and slightly worn corners. By the author of The College Widow and Fables in Slang. 229 pp..

Philadelphia: Catholic Standard and Times Pub. Co., 1911 Book. Illus. by John Sloan. Near Fine. Hardcover. Eighth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original dark green cloth on boards. Top edges gilt. No writing or damage. A book of poems by a Catholic newspaperman who was heavily influenced by Italian immigrants in his native Philadelphia. Clever, light-hearted poems written in simple dialect. I got a kick out of these closing lines from "Content" : "I wouldn't be a millionaire fur seven hundred dollars!" 172 pp..

London: David Bogue, 1848 Book. Illus. by George Cruikshank. Good. Hardcover. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Original 3/4 brown leather on patterned boards, over original light green soft covers (extant). Feather patterned endpapers. Presumed first edition. Racial slurs. Six full-page plates and several small drawings. 128 pp. Hardcover edges worn..

Toronto: Belford Brothers, 1877 Book. Illus. by Uncle Consider. Good Plus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original red pictorial cloth on boards. Grubby edges and two leaves browned by paper insert, but sound and easily readable, with no writing. One gutter strained, so I glued it. This book is full of delightful, inventive nonsense from cover to cover. 248 pp. plus ads..

N.Y.: Hurst & Co., 1881 Book. Illus. by Pikturs Drawed By Mrs. B. Jane Ward. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original dark green blindstamped cloth on boards. Arlington Edition. Inside back cover advertises Somer Pianos. 312 pp. of humour..

Toronto: Gage Publishing, 1978 Book. Illus. by Gustav Dore. Good Plus to Very Good. Padded Faux Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original red padded leatherette on boards. Parry Sound Version. Anyone who is familiar with the Old Testament ought to get lots of laughs from this parody. Truly ingenious. No marks or damage. 160 pp..