Resultados de búsqueda: Humour from Attic Books

Toronto: William Briggs, 1907. Hardcover. Fair. v, [1], 7-47 p. 19 cm. Tipped-in b&w frontispiece photo. 3 b&w line drawings. Green paper covers with white print. A few makrs and discolouration to outside. Ink stamp and small chips on front free endpaper. Wrinkled pages with a few spots.

London: D. Bogue, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. ex library-fair. 111 p. + ads. 14 cm. B&w engravings throughout. Half blue leather with blue marbled boards. Ex library with spine label, labels on front endpapers, ink stamp on title page verso and text block edges. Front board and first pages detached and spine loosening. Chipped spine label. Title page darkened. A satirical look at lawyers, judges and the courts.

London: Ernest Benn, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. x, 159 p. 19 cm. Green cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket spine faded with holes in middle and chipped ends. Other chips and tears to jacket edges as well as soiling. Not price clipped, however. Cloth has a few marks. Herbert's second Topsy novel, in which the irreepressible flapper enters the House of Commons. Herbert, author of more than 50 books, was known for his witty championing of minoirty causes. As an independent MP for Oxford University, he introduced the matrimonial causes bill, enacted 1937, which radically changed English divorce laws.

Milton, Ont.: Comet Enterprises, 1999. Softcover. Fine. 110 p. 21 cm. Line drawings. Paperback. Signed by author on title page.

Bright's Grove, Ont.: Longacre Press, 1996. Softcover. Fine. 144 p. 22 cm. B&w line drawings. Paperback.

Simcoe, Ont.: Pottahawk Press, 1998. Softcover. Near fine. Book One of the MacSwale Experience. 152 p. 23 cm. Paperback. A few light marks. Inscribed by author on title page.

Toronto: Grip Printing and Publishing Company, 1884. Volume XXII, No. 26, Saturday, June 28, 1884. Softcover. Good. [8 p.]. 30 cm. B&w drawings. Green paper covers with small holes, chipped top front corner. Includes Toronto advertising, political cartoons, short news items, humour.

Toronto: Grip Printing and Publishing Company, 1884. Volume XXIII, No. 17, Saturday, October 25, 1884. Softcover. Good. [8 p.]. 30 cm. B&w drawings. Green paper covers with small holes. Torn lower spine. Tiny label on rear. Some stains within. Includes Toronto advertising, political cartoons, short news items, humour.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 255 p. 19 cm. Pink cloth in mylar-covered yellow jacket. Jacket has darkened spine.

Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1967. First Australian Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. 140 p. 21 cm. B&w line drawings. Orange cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Stain and hole on front panel of jacket extending to flap.Some rubbing to rear panel of jacket. Book itself has crease in spine and slightly softened ends. Small label on front pastedown.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. Softcover. Fine. 291 p. 22 cm. Paperback. Signed by author on title page.

nd. ca. 1937. Very good. 6 one-sided pages. 26 cm. Typescript attached with metal fastener. Letterhead at top front for British & International Press Ltd., Clifford's Inn, Fleet Street, London. Spadoni C37.59. Published in Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1937.

Berlin & Stuttgart: Verlag von W. Spemann, 1886. Vols. 1 - 12. Hardcover. Good. vi, [4], 768, [2] p. 25 cm. Separate title pages for each volume. Half burgundy leather with marbled paper boards. Spine discoloured in patches, boards rubbed, light wear to extremities. Blind stamp on front free endpaper. Pages browning. German text.

Glace Bay, NS: Brodie Printing Service, December 1929. Booklet. Good. 64, [2] p. 18 cm. B&w photo of McCawley. Stapled paper covers. Ink stamp on front cover and title page. Paper browned.Some soiling to exterior. Some chips to edges. "A Book of Yarns and Stories with a Rhyme or two."

nd. 1900s?. Near fine. 16 cm leaflet. Two pages of text. Obituary of a cat, born in Galt, Ontario, "the world's most marvellous prodigy," able to meow in six languages, capable of describing any problem in geometry while engaged in capturing mice and birds, pampered by indulgence, fond of shrimps, sardines and brook trout. Flags on all local corn cribs and out houses to be lowered to half mast. Many humans have not had such a glowing - or entertaining - eulogy.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1936. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Portions" appeared in Punch. xiii, 109 p. 19 cm. B&w illustrations by Baumer originally in Punch. Grey cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jackethas price-clipped front flap, chips and tears to edges and spine ends, darkened spine, tear in rear panel, soiling. Book itself has spots on cloth, darkened spine head. Ink signature front free endpaper, some foxing to interior and text block edges. Not just ski-ing but skating, lugeing, bobbing, ice-hockey, curling, training, etc. Much humour on such subjects as avalanche burial, blonde and brunette skis, the use of flasks in ski-jumping, how to get your own skis from the ski-truck, snake-fur braces, the truth about wax, and so on.

London: Macmillan, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 219 p. 20 cm. Red cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 191 p. 21 cm. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Front flap price clipped.

Toronto: ANIK Press, 2000. Softcover. Near fine. 102 p. 21 cm. B&w drawings. White paperback. A little soiling to rear cover.

nd. 1930s. Booklet. Good. 23 p. 27 cm. B&w cartoons. 4 colour cartoons inside covers. Stapled paper covers. Soiling to front and rear. Inside clean. A phamplet that advertises a set of books called The New Punch Library to be published in 193?, ed. by Sir John Hammerton. Brief bios of some of the cartoonists. Detailed description of the theme of each volume. Even the prospectus is funny.