Search Results: HUMOR / General from William Robertson

London: BBC Books , 1989. Third Impression. Hardcover. Very Good +. Very Good+/-. Based on the hilarious BBC tv series of the 1980's, this is Volume 2 of the mock diaries of leading character, Rene Artois. If you've never seen the show there's no way I can explain it to you - completely insane, and very, very funny! Contains c.300+ unumbered pages, 21.5 x 15.5cm, and illustrated throughout with b&w photos and graphics. Pictorial laminated boards in very good condition. Internally, Very Good+: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings.

London: Robson , 1982. Second Impression. Hardcover. Fair/good. Fair/Good. Autobiographical 'sketches' from the much loved (and missed) arch goon, Sir Harry Secombe. Size, 22 x 14.5cm, 160 pages, illustrated throughout by the author's cartoons. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Brown cloth boards in good illustrated dust jacket. Internally, fair: shows a few light stains, otherwise clean and unmarked in sound bindings.

London: Michael Joseph, 1990. Hardcover. Good/Good. Philpot, Graham. This autobiography (why do they call it 'auto'-biography when it didn't write itself?) by Spike is an imaginative blend of fact and fiction, as enchanting as it is highly amusing. Beautifully illustrated throughout with period photographs and family drawings, the gentle and affectionate tone of this memoir marks a new departure in Spike's writing, and reveals the source of much of his renowned humour - his own family. Contains 243 pages, 24.5 x 18.5cm, and illustrated throughout with b&w photos and cartoons. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings, green cloth boards in good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, good: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. -Free UK Shipping

London: James Barrie, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Very Good/very good. The author would find TV fame in the 1960s, playing a straight-faced (and often bowler-hatted) protagonist on 'Candid Camera', one of the original hidden-camera prank shows. This was his first book - an hilarious biography with an acute and infectious sense of the ridiculous. Contains 138 pages, 19 x 12.5cm, and illustrated with cartoon chapter headings by the author. Blue boards in illustrated dust jacket showing minor shelf wear, otherwise in Very Good condition. Internally, Very Good: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings.

A look back at the 'career' (and multiple mishaps) of Pilot Officer Prune during WWII. Anyone who flew with the RAF in the 1940s would have heard of Prune, as he was used to illustrate the various ways in which things could 'go wrong', if care wasn't taken. In this volume his creator, Bill Hooper, revues Prune's wartime gaffs, using mannikins of Prune which he made himself. Contains 55-pages, 27.5 x 22cm, and illustrated throughout with colour and b&w cartoons and photographs.