Humour from Goldring Books

London: Macgibbon and Kee, 1957. Black title on blue boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally clean, tight and unmarked. VG+ Dustjacket has some age darkening, a little wear and is not price clipped. 192 pages. The former foreign correspondent and political journalist and commentator and Punch contributor focuses his attention on many controversial subjects providing an… Read more about this item

London: Fig Tree, 2017. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The award-winning comedian and broadcasterhas discovered the meaning of life - and its all in the Russian classics. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels. L. First.… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952. Blue boards have a strip of age darkening to front with some marks. Internally there is a light stain to the lower corners of some early pages and age toning to page edges else a clean tight copy. Dustjacket has chipping and some repaired closed tears. Sam Cobean was a successful cartoonist , mainly for The… Read more about this item

London: Orion, 2003. A near Fine unmarked copy whose only fault is a thin line of light indentation to front of dustjacket and to front board. A large format volume of 359 pages. Here in their own words and never before published diary extracts, the men who made Monty Python reveal all - about each other, the making of the… Read more about this item

London: Souvenir Press, 1986. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A brilliant successor to 'The Illustrated Winespeak', its outrageously perceptive humour makes it a must for vintners and wine imbibers throughout the world. Ronald Searle, in his own inimitable way, introduces you to the time-honoured Wine Ceremonies of the World: from the USA… Read more about this item

London: Grafton Books, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 192 pages. This year's pick of punch presents an EEC joke-mountain of mirth, as Mr. Punch and his associates cover world subjects, and where we meet President Bush's killer spaniel, Dan Quayle's brain and much, much more. Illustrated… Read more about this item

London: Grafton Books, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy. A large format book of 228 pages. Introduction by Miles Kington. A gloriously funny celebration of a great comic art - the pick of all the Punches ever published - over 500 cartoons (including 16 pages of colour) culled from nearly 500,000 published in the magazine since Punch invented the modern… Read more about this item

London: Angus and Robertson, 1980. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 160 pages. Photo illustrations. 'I knew so little of the world really. Slander, not geography had always been my strongest suit' observes Bette Midler as she recalls the heady days leading up to her first world tour. Then she was off,… Read more about this item

London: Pelham, 1964. Gold title on red boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light creasing to some pages else unmarked. Dustjacket is not price clipped. 114 pages. Drawings by John Jensen. 'Luck is no lady', says Roger Longrigg - having reached this conclusion after tortured years of pursuing the creature. He has chased her… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987. A near Fine umarked copy (Fine apart from a minor indentation to top edge and usual age toning to page edges) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 279 pages. 'I was born frivolous and frivolous I have remaine, ' declares Arthur Marshall, brooking no interference in his pursuit of levity. And, he… Read more about this item

London: Andrew Melrose, 1924. Yellow and light blue title on blue cloth boards which have some minor marks, just a touch of wear to spine head and tail and corner tips and age darkening to spine. Internally there is a small name and date to front endpaper, age darkening to endpapers and foxing to closed edges.316 pages. Second edition. The… Read more about this item

London: Simon and Schuster, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. Until now, the poetry of Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld has been hidden, 'embedded' within comments made at press briefings and in interviews. His preferred medium is the spoken word, and his audience has been limited to hard-bitten reporters… Read more about this item

London: Putnam, 1958. Silver title on red boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is an inscription to front pastedown and some light foxing to endpapers and closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has a touch of foxing and is price clipped. Third impression (first was 1956). More irreverence on the theme… Read more about this item

London: A.R. Mowbray, 1968. A Fine unmarked copy in laminated boards. Humorous verse with a religious theme by Father Forrest with illustrations by his brother E.W. Forrest. R1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Forrest, E.W.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Park McDonald, 1996. A Very Good+ clean and unmarked copy. For a quarter of a century Stan McMurtry - better known as MAC - has drawn the mainfeature cartoon on the Daily Mail. For this book he has ferreted through his archives and compiled a rib-tickling collection of more than 150 of his own personal favourites. From Mad Cow… Read more about this item

London: Piccadilly Press, 1992. Pictorial laminated boards which has a smll bump to lower corner tip with a small ink mark to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. The author continues his mission to 'deborify' those subjects which drove him mad at school resulting in a wealth of information embellished with cartoons drawn by him. An amusing catalogue of scientific… Read more about this item

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1994. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket. A unique book about the sheer funniness of everyday life will almost certainly make you shed a tear or two over its whimsy-comical, tongue-in-cheek observations. Ever stared in bewilderment at a washing machine manual that looks like the computer program for the Star Ship… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins, 1992. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The American author, co-founder of the National Lampoon magazine, spent eight harrowing years studying Latin, and here amusingly applies this knowledge to modern day English expressions. **** NOT EX LIB **** … Read more about this item

London: Times Books, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. Craig Brown of The Times spent a year in the House of Commons observing the antics of the nation's legislators. Nobody was safe from his satirical pen and he gives us a comic insight into the follies and foibles of a year in Parliament, amongst his targets… Read more about this item

London: Chancellor Press, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket with Fine dustjacket. Foreword by Cyril Tolley. First published by Country Life in 1959. More humour can be found in golf than practically any other walk of life says Tolley in his foreword and the cartoonist Houghton proves the truth of this statement with this facsimile… Read more about this item