HUMOUR from Chilton Books

London: Putnam, 1956.. 4th printing. Cartoons with the subject of grappling with the first two years of parenthood. 18.5cms x 12.5cms. Unpaginated. Line drawing cartoons throughout. Illustrated boards clean. Matching duswrapper has spotting mainly to rear with wear to top of spine and top rear edge. VG/G+.

New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1955.. 1st edition. Following the publishing of "World's Best Limericks", dozens of people from all over the world sent in more examples from people such as: W.D.Lewis, Frank Miller, G.S.Myers, Harry Pollak, Arthur Rosenblum, James W.Sales, John Smith and A.H.Stevens,Jr." 19cms x 11cms. Pp.61, occasional cartoon illustrations by Henry R. Martin, minor… Read more about this item

New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1960.. 1st edition. "The reader should be warned that although many of these limericks are laundered and thus printable, there are many that are still not entirely clean!" Pp.59, occasional cartoon illustrations byHenry R. Martin, minor spotting to endpapers and closed page edges. Illustrated paper-covered boards, matching dustwrapper which has chipping to… Read more about this item

New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1952.. 1st edition. "Gathered from many Gay Minstrels" Humorous verse. Pp.62, cartoon illustrations in tan by Henry R. Martin, small chip to lower edge of pp.13/14, a few light spots. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Matching dustwrapper a little dusty, slightly darkened to spine with edge wear to top and tail. G+/G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.. 1st Penguin editions. Stephen Potter's series of humorous books on how to secure an unfair advantage which began in 1947 with Gamesmanship, purporting to show how poor players can beat better ones by subtle psychological ploys. This sold prodigiously and led to a series of sequels covering other aspects of life. Four Volumes: Gamesmanship; Lifemanship; One-Upmanship;… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co,Ltd, 1962.. Rep. Humorous pony cartoons covering the whole field of equitation, from how to get a pony to how to prevent one from getting you; from how to pull his tail to how to bandage your legs! 21cms x 15cms. Pp.128, cartoon illustrations throughout. Bllue cloth, dustwrapper rubbed with edge wear and chipping… Read more about this item

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+.

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: 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… Read more about this item

Privately published / Lulu, nd. (c.2011).. Roger McCartney is the creator of the new ron-con genre....His observational ironic-comedy fools you into a false sense of security and then - bang - he hits you with the absurd...." 23cms x 15cms. Unpaginated. 20 chapters. Inscribed by the author "To the man who has everything. Including me! Roger McCartney" to… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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..

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… Read more about this item

London: The Lochend Printing Co.Ltd, nd. (c.1946).. One of a series of humourous cockney parodies. 16.5cms x 12.5cms. Pp.47, inscribed by the author to inside front cover (To Peter Marshall with best wishes & good luck. Leon Cortez), accompanying cartoon illustrations by Anthony Masters, rusting to staples causing some brown spots to inner margins. Paperback, spine worn and small… Read more about this item

Unknown.. Hal Roach "Ireland's international Comedian; Star of Jury's Irish Cabaret, Dublin, Ireland". Book of Irish humour and jokes. Pp.133, inscribed by the author "To Maggie, a special lady! Love Hal Roach" to title page. Paperback, scuffs to front. G+.

London: Doubleday, 1999.. Reissued. "Everyone knows 'The Twelve Days of Christmas', but not as re-written by John Julius Norwich in this delightful correspondence, which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer." 18.5cms x 13.5cms. Unpaginated. colour illustrations by Quentin Blake throughout. Yellow cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed. VG/VG.

London: Allan Wingate, 1952.. 1st edition. Why do people feel the irresistible urge to write a Letter to the Editor? "When Stanley Rubinstein, known as lawyer and friend to generations of literary people, posed this innocent question in a letter to The Sunday Times, he did not forsee that he would provoke twenty-four replies, four of them addressed to… Read more about this item

London: Wingate, 1952.. 6th impression. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley. Pp.127, cartoon illustrations by Nicolas Bentley, inscribed by the author "To Margaret & Douglas with love and many thanks for their kindness, May,1952. George Mikes" to front free endpaper. Red cloth, spine slightly rubbed and title to spine dulled. G+.

London: Robinson Publishing, 1991.. 1st edition. "The inhabitants of this world include Lord Doberman, the richest man in the world; Anode Enzyme, genius and inventor; Cedilla the deb; Methylated Jim; Dr de Range, the asylum proprietor; and assorted bankers, art dealers, social climbers, ferocious nannies, tramps and Phds, and a cartoonist of genius. John Glashan's World has been made… Read more about this item