Search Results: Humour from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Robinson 2018. Oblong 8vo. Presentation copy from the author with his inscription to the title-page. Unpaginated. Oblong paperback format. Very clean copy. Illustrations throughout by mac. 9781472141620 . Near Fine. Paperback. 2018.

London: Frederick Muller 1940. Large 8vo. 60 pp. Paper covered illustrated boards with matching dust jacket. Minor wear to spine ends; small marks to boards; a few tears and marks to dust jacket. Lots of black and white illustrations. Inscription to FFEP, lots of black and white illustrations. An amusing political parody of Lewis Caroll's classic, Alice in Wonderland. . Very Good. Paper Covered Boards. Revised Edition. 1940.

London: James Blackwood 1858. 8vo. Three parts in one. viii, 118, 108, 112 p. Contemporary full dark green morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt lettering. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Original pictorial wrapper bound in at front. Illustrations throughout. Repair to a few leaves. Boards clean. Internally clean. . Very Good. Full Morocco. Reprint. 1858.

Printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd. 1959. Large 8vo.Illustrated. [14 pp]. Illustrated paper covers in original protective card sleeve. Designed by S. H. Benson Ltd. with illustrations by Ronald Ferns. Rubbing to edges. Internally clean, colours bright. Includes a compliments slip. A Guinness promotional booklet. . Near Fine. Illustrated Paper Covers. 1959.

Printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd. 1959. Large 8vo.Illustrated. Unpaginated [14 pp]. Illustrated paper covers, in original protective card sleeve. Designed by S. H. Benson Ltd. with illustrations by Ronald Ferns. Some minor rubbing to edges, spotting to sleeve. Internally clean, colours bright. A Guinness promotional booklet. . Near Fine. Illustrated Paper Covers. 1959.

Leeds: Printed by John Waddington [1952]. 8vo.Pamphlet. Unpaginated [16 pp., including wraps] Pictorial paper wraps with original card sleeve. Covers fresh and generally internally clean and bright with minor spotting to the centre fold. A Guinness promotional pamphlet based on the story of Alice in Wonderland. Illustrated throughout in colour by Antony Groves-Raines. . Very Good. Illustrated Paper Covers. 1952.

London: Arthur Guinness Son & Co. 1964. 8vo.Illustrated. Unpaginated [16 pp. including pictorial wraps] A scarce Guinness promotional title in its original card sleeve. Covers fresh with a small mark to the spine. Internally generally clean and bright with minor marks to the binding due to the usual corrosion of the staples. . Very Good. Illustrated Paper Covers. First Edition. 1964.

London: Penguin Books 1945. 4to.Illustrated. Unpaginated. Pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Fading to the spine, a few nicks and wear to board edges. Spots to endpapers, slight yellowing throughout and occasional offsets, but generally clean. Collection of around 200 of the artist's cartoons in black and white. Includes clippings related to Steinberg. The author's first book. . Very Good. Pictorial Boards. First UK Edition. 1945.

London: Duckworth & Co. 1917. 4to. 47 pp. Original paper wrappers with colour pictorial onlay to front cover. Covers edgeworn. Internally clean. Illustrations to each page. Endpaper adverts. . Good. Wraps. 1917.

New York: Harper and Brothers 1949. 4to.Illustrated. Unpaginated. Bound in yellow decorative cloth with pictorial dust jacket. Minor bumping to the head of the jacket spine and minor chipping to the rear cover, otherwise clean and bright. Original purchaser's name and purchase year written in pencil to front endpapers, scattered pencil notes throughout noting the cartoons' original publication dates. Collection of the artist's cartoons related to modern life. Includes ephemera related to Steinberg, such as a selection of postcards and a New Yorker cover illustrated by Steinberg. The author's 2nd book. . Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 1949.

London: J. Debrett 1785-1789. Small 8vo. 3 volumes. viii, 5-364, [ii], 43; iv, 5-312; vii, 280 pp. Full brown speckled calf with black and red title labels, with gilt lettering and borders to spines. Wear and slight damage to edges and spine ends, marks to boards, a little splitting to front joints of first 2 volumes. Some ink inscriptions to prelims and occasional small notes within from the 19th century. Slight yellowing to page edges and occasional minor spotting, owner's stickers to front pastedowns. Vol. I is the 'New Edition' (with Supplement); vols. II & III are First Editions (a fourth volume appeared in 1793). A collection of witty and amusing pieces following on from 'The New Foundling Hospital for Wit', containing poems, epigrams, quotes and letters from various sources, many of the authors are credited. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Full Speckled Calf. First Editions. 1785.

London: D. C. Thomson & Co., Ltd., and John Leng & Co. Ltd. 1956. 4to. 125 pp. Colour illustrated boards; illustrated endpapers. Minor marks to boards, and rubbing around edges and joints and some chipping to the spine. Pages a little yellowed, but generally internally clean. Illustrated throughout in black, blue and red with funny comics and illustrated adventure stories, with classic characters like Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger, The Bash Street Kids and many more. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. . Very Good. Illustrated Boards. 1956.

London: Dennis Dobson Ltd 1952. 8vo.Illustrated. First edition. 254 pp. Blue cloth with with gilt lettering to spine, in dustjacket. Drawings throughout by Gluyas Williams. Fading and bruisng around edges. Some markings to dustjacket and damage around edges. Some spots at edge of pages, but leaves otherwise clean. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1952.

London: Grant Richards Ltd. 1925. 12mo. 112 pp., with an illustrated cover by Wyndham Payne. Apparently no copy in the British Library, although Copac records copies at both Oxford and NLS in the UK, and OCLC adds 4 more in the USA. Small short tear to the rear panel of the wrappers. . Very Good. Printer Wrapper. 1925.

London: Bodley Head. 1933. 170 pp, b/w illustrations. The pictorial dustwrapper is frayed and torn in places but largely complete . Very Good. Hard Cover. First Edition. 1933.

London: Sampson Low Marston and Co [1925]. Large 8vo. [1925] unpaginated, illustrated with tipped in b/w plates, some wear to book edges and foxing to pages. . Very Good. Decorated Boards. 1925.

Barnes, London: Excellent Press 1995. Large 8vo. First Edition. Unpaginated [96 pp.]. Hardcover with silver lettering to spine in illustrated jacket (not price clipped). Very light scratching to jacket, with very light marking to rear panel. Very light bumping to head of book's spine and at fore-edge of front board. Internally very clean and colours bright. Signed by the author. A near fine copy. 1854878034 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1995.

London: Grant Richards Ltd. 1916. 12mo. First Edition. 305 pp. Red pictorial cloth. Sunning to spine. A small split to bottom of front joint. Light bumping to extremities. Binding slanted. Ex-libris. Pencil inscription of ownership dated 1916. A few marks to first blank. A small tear to bottom of one of the plates. Otherwise clean and bright internally. An autobiographical account of Bruce Bairnsfather's experience in the trenches in the First World War, accompanied by black & white cartoons and illustrations by the author. Bairnsfather was famous for his cartoons from the front line featuring Old Bill, a curmugeonly Tommy with a walrus moustache. A good, well-read copy. . Very Good. Pictorial Cloth. First Edition. 1916.

London: Mecredy, Percy & Co. Limited ca. 1912. 8vo. 147, [ads] pp. Colour illustrated boards, with Rolls Royce advertisement to rear board. Boards worn at edges, with marks and rubbing. Spotting to prelims, thereafter clean, with a few slight splits in the binding but holding together. Last 30 pages or so are contemporary advertisements. Illustrated in black & white. Satire of 'modern' Ireland. . Very Good. Illustrated Boards. 1912.

London: Chatto & Windus 1904. 8vo. xv, 640 pp. Half brown morocco over speckled cream boards with raised bands, gilt lettering and borders to spine; marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Slight rubbing to joints and extremities, otherwise boards clean. Internally clean. . Numerous in-text illustrations and full-page engravings, reproducing contemporary political cartoons and caricatures. Binding firm. A history of the 18th century in the heyday of print culture, satire and early modern British politics. . Very Good. Half Morocco. New Edition. 1904.