Search Results: HUMOUR from Chilton Books

London: BCA, 1993.. 1st BCA ed. "Phyllis Shindler has approached a variety of famous and experienced after-dinner speakers and asked them to contribute their favourite stories to this enjoyable collection." Pp. 107, b/w illustrations throughout. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/G+.

Eastbourne: Minstrel (Imprint of Monarch Pub. Ltd.),1989.. 1st ed. "The Complete Guide for the Bored Again Christian". Pp. 124/2(ads) b/w cartoons throughout Paperback, sunning to spine. G+.

Eastbourne: Minstrel, 1989.. 1st.ed. "Hilarious true stories with a religious flavour." Pp. 96. Few b/w illustrations. Page edges slightly toned. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG.

Eastbourne: Minstrel, 1989.. 1st ed. "This book is a hysterical clerical collection of strange facts, stranger anecdotes and shaggy dog-collar stories." Pp. 96, pages slightly toned, b/w illustrations throughout book, owners name to fep. P/b. G+.

Ipswich, England: Malthouse Press, 1993.. 1st ed. "A companion to the joyous 'I Mind the Time' the author catches the essence of true East Anglian village humour in the characters encountered by him during half a century of farming in the Eastern Counties." Pp.144 with b/w drawings by Mark Guthrie. P/b with illustrated cover by Norman Ottaway. G+.

Eastbourne: Minstrel, 1989.. 1st.ed. "This is religious humour with a difference. Not only very funny, but illuminating and sometimes disturbing." Pp. 156. Few b/w illustrations. Page edges slightly toned. Name to fep. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG.

Worthing: Churchman Publishing, 1989.. New and old stories and jokes collected over many years." Pp.141, sketched pictures, gift message to front free endpaper. Illustrated laminated boards. VG.

London: Max Reinhardt, 1964.. 2nd impression. A collection of Cars...Cart-toons, Auto-suggesions and Car-icatures... by Sin�, the famous French cartoonist who drew 'Scatty'. 13.5cms x 11cms x 1cm. Unpaginated. Paperback, matching dustwrapper is toned with small spots. G+.

Guidford: Eagle, 2002.. 1st ed. "This book is part of a lifetime's collection and provides a resource for talks, addresses, after dinner speeches, sermons, and prose. Mainly it offers one liner jests and put downs, worldly commonplaces and religious proverbs..." Pp.158. Pbk. VG.

London: Private Eye, 1986.. 1st ed. "A selection of quotes most of which originally appeared in PRIVATE EYE'S 'Colemanballs' column including Ron Greenwood, Steve Race, Zola Budd, John Motson, David Coleman Ted Lowe Murray Walker". B/w illustrations throughout. P/b with illustrated cover. G+.

London: Ernest Nister. nd. (c.1904).. Printed in Bavaria. 1153. Cartoon illustrations of 'events' in early English history. Unpaginated, colour cartoon illustrations throughout, small tear to base of front free endpaper. Red cloth spine, illustrated laminated boards, edge wear with scuffing to corners. Scarce. G+.** William Theodore Parkes, an artist and journalist who began his career as a medallist

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1958.. 1st ed. "Mr. Lynn has had a great wealth of material on which to draw, but his anthology also owes much to his brilliant editing". Pp. 13/463. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has clear protective wrap. VG/G+.

London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1919.. Second edition. With an Introduction about the Verses by G.K.Chesterton and an Introduction about the Drawings by Max Beerbohm and something about all concerned by Cecil Palmer. 25cms x 18.5cms. Pp.48, humourous verse and cartoons throughout, owner's details to inside front cover, endpapers browned, occasional light spotting, inner hinges cracked but holding. Illustrated paper covered boards grubby with edge wear and losses to corners, spine cracked and worn. Scarce. G-.

London: Macdonald, 1962.. 1st British edition. "This curious and wonderful little book is a brilliant, razor-sharp, ironical satire of totalitarian practices...Mrozek disarms the Dictatorship of the Proletariat by laughing at it, but that is only because he happens to live in Communist Poland...And the crowning irony is that officials of the Polish State Cultural Review awarded 'The Elephant' the annual Literary Prize for 1957." Pp.176, occasional illustrations by Daniel Mroz, gift message to front free endpaper, minor toning to endpapers. Black cloth, dustwrapper (designed by Rupert Smith) has toning to edges with chipping to top of spine. VG/G+.

London: Faber and Faber, 1958.. 3rd impression. Contents: 1.The Ghost Train; 2.Case History; 3.Frying the Flag; 4.Jots and Tittles; 5.For Immediate Release; 6.White Man's Milk; 7.Drage's Divine Discontent; 8."Noblesse Oblige"; 9.Call of the Sea. Pp.89, occasional illustrations by V.H.Drummond, minor spotting to endpapers. Turquoise cloth, dustwrapper toned woth edge tears. G+/G..

Guildford: Eagle, 2002.. 1st ed. "This book is part of a lifetime's collection and provides a resource for talks, addresses, after dinner speeches, sermons, and prose. Mainly it offers one liner jests and put downs, worldly commonplaces and religious proverbs..." Pp.127. Pbk. VG.

London: The Bodley Head, 1960.. 1st edition. "History seen through the eye of a satirical cartoonist with a sense of the ridiculous plus a curiosity as to the relationship of events and the sequence of cause and effect...The 200 drawings which illustrate the book range from allegory to caricature, were made at the time of the happenings and are frankly amusing..." 20.3cms x 17cms. Pp.191, cartoon/caricature illustrations throughout, gift message to front free endpaper. Green cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed with darkening to spine and small edge tears and chipping. G+/G+.

Lymington: Nautical Publishing Co. Ltd., 1979.. 1st ed. "... he has compiled a book of 88 cartoons which record hilarious happenings at sea and sometimes even on rocks, sands or in harbour." Pp. 96, portrait frontis, illustrated throughout. Illustrated laminated boards. VG.

Bombay: J.Walter Thompson Company (Eastern) Ltd, nd. (c.1960).. Vintage travel memorabilia. Self-deprecating humorous booklet written by S.K. Kooka, former Chairman of Air India Charters, who is also credited with creating the iconic Air India Maharajah along with artist Umesh Rao in 1946. 15.5cms x 11.5cms. Pp.36, blue and yellow coloured cartoon illustrations accompanying text, spotting to endpapers, edge-loss (silverfish?) to margin of pp.1/2 (not affecting text). illustrated stiff card cover spotted, rusting to staples. Scarce. Good.

London: Michael Joseph, 1983.. 1st ed. Humorous religious stories and illustrations. Pp. 93, b/w illustrations throughout, fep top corner clipped. Illustrated laminated boards. G+.