Humor from Capricorn Books

London: Methuen, 1929. 153 pp, 7 11/16" H, purple/red boards with gilt lettering/banding on spine, gilt decoration on front cover. 20 full page b&w drawings by E.H. Shepard, known for his Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations. A humorous look at life in the British Army as everything from dogs, cats, lambs and cows to monkeys, parrots and an elephant undermine regulations and authority.… Saber más sobre este artículo

(New York): Delacorte, 1973. 303 pp, 8 1/2" H. B&w drawings. "Kurt Vonnegut bids farewell and Godspeed to all of the literary characters who have worked so hard for him over the years. Their unconditional liberty is the author's fiftieth birthday present to himself. Only Kilgore Trout, the science-fiction writer, is told of his new freedom from the whims… Saber más sobre este artículo

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,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Cupples & Leon, 1931. Unpaginated, 9 7/8" H x 10" W. Card covers with cloth tape spine. B&w comic strips. The battling of Jiggs and his social-climbing wife, Maggie. Interior - moderate to heavy browning to the pages and to the inside of the covers, soft corner creases to the corners of the pages, some… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962. 185 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w cartoons. "This is Berton at his best: witty, opinionated, penetrating, and informative - the qualities that have made him Canada's best known and most widely read daily columnist." Chapter headings: All My Own Work; Five Dilemmas of Our Time; The Canadian Way of Life; The Writing Game: 1… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cincinnati : Derby & Jackson, 1856. 403 pp + [4] pp publisher's advertising, 7 1/2" H. Green cloth (faded to a brownish hue) with blindstamped decoration on front and rear boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Eight b&w plates (including frontispiece) - the paper of these illustrations has tanned in comparison with the text pages. The author… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1939. Unpaginated, 8 3/8" H. "Little Lulu is the reason why thousands of people open the 'Saturday Evening Post' back end foremost - to laught at her latest antic. Sixty of these amusing cartoons, specially selected for their appeal to children are presented in this book. (N.B. Adults proceed at their own risk.) Here is Lulu,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman, 1935. [158] pp, 5 1/4" H. Color pictorial covers. Alternating pages of text (jokes) and b&w scenes from early Hollywood movies or movie star caricatures. Split in paper on front inside hinge - hinge holding very well; lean to spine; moderate browning to pages; small bump at top corner of approx. pages 50 to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: Key Porter, 1990. 112 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w illustrations by political cartoonist Aislin. "(W)inning entries and special celebrity submissions from a nationwide contest for satircal verse (judged by) author Margaret Atwood, columnist Allan Fotheringham and songwriter Nancy White. Over 100 of the best entries are featured. Also included are poems submitted by invitation from: Pierre Berton,… Saber más sobre este artículo

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 /… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: George H. Doran, 1920. 384 pp, 7 3/4" H. Grey cloth with green title block on spine, green oblong with author's name on front board and decorative border with title in green letters. GDH symbol on title page denoting First Edition. The American first preceded the British which was published in 1921 as 'Jill the… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1931. 316 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), orange cloth with black title/author blocks, orange lettering. Harry Beckhoff dust jacket and endpaper art. "The mangement of fiancees and the manipulation of high finances go roisterously hand in hand in this amorous and economic history of Biscuit, otherwise Lord Biskerton, son and heir of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1932. 312 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H). Orange cloth with black lettering on spine/front board. "Reviewing Mrs. J. Wellington Gedge's worldly goods, one would have thought her cup of happiness must be complete. Yet this was not so. She had a small husband and a large income, and both of these… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1940. 284 pp, + (4 pp), small 8vo (7 3/8" H), orange cloth with black lettering on spine. "In the heart of London's clubland there stands a tall and grimly forbidding edifice known to taxi-drivers and the elegant young men who frequent its precincts as the Drones Club. Yet its somewhat austere exterior belies the… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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. … Saber más sobre este artículo

St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell, 1991. 144 pp, 9" H. Inscribed by author on title page: "Happy Landings, Garth". "What was the son of a ladies' underwear salesman doing flying a battered old float plane with a load of drunken passengers and dead fish? 'Fly Yellow Side Up' will take you on a humorous, bumpy ride to Paradise, a small… Saber más sobre este artículo