Search Results: Humour from Lansdowne Books

Well-preserved cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy.

London: Folio Society, 2004. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 279pp. Illustrated cloth in slipcase. With illustrations by Paul Cox.
The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are all exiled. All those who know them long to return." ―Evelyn Waugh When Lord Tilbury receives a letter from Galahad Threepwood stating he will no longer be publishing his memoir, he decides to travel to Blandings Castle and steal the manuscript. But he isn't the only one after the memoir. Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and Lady Constance Keeble are also trying to lay their hands on it to prevent Ronnie Fish and Sue Brown from getting married. Monty Bodkin, Lord Emsworth's new secretary, is also after the manuscript in order to secure a year's employment at the Mammoth Publishing Company.

First UK Edition. Hutchinson. London. 1987. 1st Printing. . b/w illustrations. Original quarter cloth in dust jacket. Dust Jacket in mylar cover. Black and white illustrations by Peter Chapman. Sometimes fairy tales can come true even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But it's a brand new century a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted, and unsuspecting stranger who just might be Prince Charming in disguise. Set in the Blue Mountains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ Norman Lindsay (illustrator). 1954 Reprint. The text is illustrated with both coloured and black-and-white drawings by the author, some full page, some half page and some three-quarter page. Pale coloured boards with dark blue coloured illustration and titles to the front panel and dark blue coloured titles to the spine. The famous children's story of a Christmas pudding that seemed to have a life of its own, and other adventures of the friends Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. A nice copy. Illustrator: Norman Lindsay. Inscription of previous owner. No other annotations.

London : Folio Society, 1997. First Folio Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth, in a slip-case. Pages tight, bright, clean and strong. Never Read. Overall a Fine copy. Physical description: xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23cm.

The original edition of Rubaiyat of a Motor Car. Humorous prose. Iluustrated with full page plates by Frederick Strothmann. Colour illustrations throughout. Pictorial cover as shown. A tight, clean copy. This work was written in 1906 when cars were much different than they are today, this short poem celebrates the 'joys' of the automobile. The work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Very charming and collectible.

1st Edition Hardback As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.
In his most recent collections of cartoons, Semp turns his attention to the trappings of modern life, from mobile phones to designer water. Each volume in the collection contains about 100 illustrations

First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a fine copy bound in fully illustrated cloth in publisher's slip-case also in fine condition. Black and white illustrations throughout by Paul Cox and with pictorial cloth covers with drawings by the artist.
Hugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece, but he was very good friends with Sue Brown - an attachment which Millicent, perhaps, could hardly be expected to enthuse over. Ronnie Fish loved Sue, and entertained feelings of unrestrained ferocity towards Pilbeam, a blister of the first water, who was pestering her with flowers. When Millicent and Ronnie heard that Hugo and Sue were having dinner on the quiet, there was trouble; and when Ronnie, descending upon Mario's, found not Hugo but the execrable Pilbeam, summer lightning flashed in truth. How Lord Emsworth's pig was stolen, how Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe was accused of the crime, how Mr… Read More

Ivory pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and red; gilt back. Pages clean and tight and bright. A very good copy in publisher's board slip-case with coloured title-vignette, numerous coloured illustrations (a number double- or full-page) in the text, and coloured endpaper maps. With the co-operation of several hampers of food and a covered boat, the three men (not forgetting the dog) set out on a hilarious voyage of mishaps up the Thames. When not falling in the river and getting lost in Hampton Court Maze, Jerome K. Jerome finds time to express his ideas on the world around many of which have acquired a deeper fascination since the day at the end of the 19th century when this excursion was so lightly undertaken.

Michael Joseph, 1977. Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1977. Michael Joseph. First UK. Hard Cover. Book-VG. Unclipped price DJ-VG in protective cover, 9x5.5. 256pp. 24 b/w line drawings by Larry as chapter headings.