Search Results: Humour from Wheen O'Books

London, Four Square Books, 1962;. Softcover. Good condition. 208pp with tanning to edges. Pictorial covers have been covered with clear sellotape. . " A rumbustious, boozy novel about the real people of Dublin." .

London, Macdonald, 1951;. Second impression. Hardback. Very good/ No dust jacket. 96pp with delightful illustrations. Red covers with black school girl motif on the front, title on spine. .

London, John Camden Hotten, 1861;. Hbk; Good/ No dw; Second English Edition; xiv, 200pp with Additional Notes, an Enlarged Glossary, and Coloured Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Colored frontis and 2 colored plates; A small inserted slip regarding the plates at title page;8pp publisher's adverts. Red heavily embossed covers with gilt title on spine. Fading in patches & spine. .

London, Davies, 1958;. 1st edition. Hardback. Very good/ Dust jacket Good. 240pp. Red covers with gilt tile on spine. Protected dust jacket by Biro has edge wear, price intact. "Father Delorme, older, wiser and in indifferent health, has a new role, that of amateur detective, whose keen perceptions and intuitive understanding of the human heart, enable him to see the inwardness of the problems which "baffle the police". .

Reprinted From the Westminster gazette; London, Victoria House Printing Coy., 1899;. Good/ No DW; Hbk; 144pp; Burgundy gilt decorated covers; endpapers age browned, page cracked at half title, slight wear at spine extremities, Owners sticker Marion Hope on front pastedown. .

London, Burke, 1951;. 1st edition. Softcover. Good+ condition. 75pp with 72 superb unposed baby photographs. Yellow and black wraps price 3/6d. .

London, Jenkins, 1947;. 1st Edition; Hbk; Good+/ No dj; 252pp ; Orange slightly soiled covers with black title to spine & front. .

London, Cape, 1947;. 1st edition.Hardback, Very good/ Dust jacket Very good. 256pp. Grey cloth covers with red title on front & spine. Protected dust jacket has small closed tears at edges, price intact. "No readers are likley to object to the strain on their credulity as they laugh their way through this novel." .

London, Hamilton, 1881; 0-241-10325-8. 1st edition. Hardback. Very good/ Dj Very good. 121pp with illustrations by Joanna Carrington. Black covers with gilt ttile on spine. Dust jacket ahs price intact. " There are few more appaling prospects than the unwanted - or worse, unexpected - guest......" .

London, Daily Express/ Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1996;. Pictorial Card covers. Very Good condition with price 5/- intact. Slight edge wear. Unpaginated with Introduction by Jim Clark. Cartoons running from 18th October 1964 to 10th October 1965. .

London, Daily Express, 1966;. Pictorial Card covers. Very good condition with price 5/- intact. Unpaginated with Introduction by Sean Connery. Cartoons running from 19th September 1965 to 18th September 1966. .

London, Daily Express, 1966;. Pictorial Card covers. Good+ condition with price 5/- intact. Light creases at the corner. Unpaginated with Introduction by Sean Connery. Cartoons running from 19th September 1965 to 18th September 1966. .

Hollywood, The Marcel Rodd Company, 1946;. 1st edition. Hardback. Very good/ No dust jacket. Unpaginated with delightful illustrations and no text. Blue covers with white title on spine. A very nice copy. .

Nevada City, Blue Dolphin Publishing, 1980; 0-931892-21-X. Softcover. Nr fine condition. Unpaginated with cartoons & decoration on every page .A very good solid copy. .

London, Reprint Society, 1959;. Combined Edition; 315pp with lovely Drawings by Walter Goetz; Red covers with black/gilt label on spine; Dust wrapper has few nicks, wear at spine extremities; The French and the French approach to life as seen by a Frenchman through the eyes of his creation, a very British Major Thompson. .

London, Educational Book Co., nd;. No 22 in the Punch Library of Humour Series; Hardback; Very Good/ no dw; 192pp with 175 amusing Illustrations by Phil May, George du Maurier, John Leech, Gordon Browne, C. E. Brock and others. Top edge gilt; Red covers with gilt motif on front, title on spine. .

London, T. Werner, nd ( c 1915);. Hardback. Good+/ No dust jacket. 114pp with 8pp publisher'sa catalogue. Some foxing to prelims. Text clean & clear with small illustrations in the text. Blue/black marbled covers with maroon corners & . Gilt title on spine.spine .

London, Hutchinson, 1986; 0 09 163790 2. Reprint 1986 (3 times); Nr Fine/ Dw Nr Fine; 294pp; Tan covers with gilt title on spine; Dust wrapper has price intact. Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize for fiction. "Outrageously funny" .

London, Hamilton, 1979; 0 241 101110 7. 1st edition. Hardback. Nr fine/ Dj Nr fine. 153pp with illustrations by John Lawrence. Blue covers with gilt tile on spine. Dust jacket has price clipped. No inscriptions. " One of the funniest collections of stories to come from the legal profession." .

London, Chatto and Windus, 1944;. Hardback. 4to. Good+/ No dust jacket. 205pp . Various Author's including : E.V. Knox, Charles Greaves, E. M. Delafield, J.J. Farjeon & many others. Artisdts include : R.W. Chesterton, Fougasse, F. Reynolds, Geo. Morrow W.R. Sillince and more. Green covers with suffed white title & decoration on the spine. .