Humour Books at Dial a Book Sydney

The Goodies Rule OK
Ross, Robert; Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor
Book Number: 49952
ISBN: 0733319076
Publisher: ABC Books 2006
4to. hardcover. 192pp. colour illus. Very good. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $16.00

Front Line - The story behind the story behind the stories
Frontline Television Productions
Book Number: 3725
ISBN:
Publisher: Viking/Penguin 1995
first edition. Wraps as issued. Very good condition, cover creased on rear corner.
Price: $25.00

The Ribald Confucius: The Inscrutable Sayings of the Venerable Oriental Sage
Fong, Ah and Phorph, R.
Book Number: 23285
ISBN:
Publisher: New English Library 1972 1st hardback ed., pictorial card covers
12mo. If Confucius had written on sexuality this is a humouros look at what he might of said.
Price: $6.00

Educational Sex to Sexty Volume 9.
various
Book Number: 32990
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney, Humour House 1973
4to. softcover magazine.64pp. b/w illus. Australian edition of this adult humour magazine with Australian content.
Price: $18.00

A Cuckoo in the Mayor's Nest
Luke, Ron
Book Number: 42059
ISBN:
Publisher: The Law Book Co. of Australia. 1961
8vo. softcover. 61pp. b/w illus. very good. Inscribed and signed by author. Scarce
Price: $25.00

The Art of Pipe Smoking
Verdaguer, Joaquin. Illustrated by Norma Crockford
Book Number: 39234
ISBN:
Publisher: The Curlew Press 1958 - Produced with the permission of Bewlay
sm. 8vo. Illustrated with b&w line drawings. Very good.
Price: $25.00

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, from the Collection of Mr. Punch
Leech, John
Book Number: 51990
ISBN:
Publisher: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. London. N.D.
4to. red dec. cloth hardcover. 276pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, light foxing, light stain on cover, wear to cover corners, one third of front hinge cracked.
Price: $75.00

Encylopedia of Immaturity
Klutz, Editors of
Book Number: 58271
ISBN: 159174427X
Publisher: Klutz 2007
8vo red cloth ring binder, hardcover 408pp, colour illus. very good+. How to never grow up, the complete guide.
Price: $25.00

I Feel Bad About My Neck - and other thoughts on being a woman
Ephron, Nora
Book Number: 60599
ISBN: 9780552773812
Publisher: Black Swan 2008
8vo. Softcover. 209pp. Very good. You can put makeup on your face and concealer under your eyes and dye on your hair, you can shoot collagen and Botox and Restylane into your wrinkles and creases, but short of surgery, there’s not a damn thing you can do about a neck. Acclaimed Hollywood filmwriter and director Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail) turns her sharp powers of observation back onto herself in these autobiographical essays as she examines the indignities of ageing for the Baby Boom generation. Filled with wickedly witty autobiographical pieces like 'I Hate My Handbag', 'Blind as a Bat' and 'What I Wish I'd Known', this book offers the consolation that no matter how much your neck sags, your boobs droop, your skin wrinkles and your children don't appreciate you, someone has been there before you. Nora Ephron captures the essence of what it means to be a grumpy old woman, in a laugh-out-loud funny, frank and unexpectedly moving book that will be an irresistible treat for any woman who reads it.
Price: $12.00

IN & OUT. Australian Usage and Abusage.
Plant, Michael: Ornamented by Cedric Flower.
Book Number: 22519
ISBN:
Publisher: Melbourne. Lansdowne Press. 1964. First edition.
8vo. softcover. 30pp. b/w illus. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $11.00

Frank Skinner
Skinner, Frank
Book Number: 52407
ISBN: 0712879278
Publisher: Century, London 2001
8vo. hardcover. 327pp. colour illus. Very good, outer page edges browned. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK His life and London
JONES, Michael Wynn
Book Number: 1771
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Macmillan, 1978
Large 8vo. hardcover. pp123, black and white plates Excellent copy in very good d/w.
Price: $25.00

Devil's Dictionary
Bierce, Ambrose
Book Number: 47438
ISBN:
Publisher: Folio Society 2003 reprint
12mo. Buckram spine on marble boards. Excellent copy in slipcase.
Price: $18.00

The Adventures of Danger Mouse. Six exciting adventures
Trueman, Brian; adapted by Greg Steddy
Book Number: 22000
ISBN:
Publisher: Purnell Books, Bristol. 1983
4to. laminated illus boards. 77pp. colour illus. very good.
Price: $15.00

Super Duper Supermen!
Gifford, Denis
Book Number: 3588
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Green Wood, 1992
Very Good 4to. Wraps. Unpaginated. Each entry consists of 1 page of text accompanied by a full-page colour reproduction of a comic book cover. Light shelfwear.
Price: $12.00

Make 'em Laugh
Midwinter, Eric
Book Number: 24893
ISBN: 0047920114
Publisher: London ; Boston Allen & U 19 April, 1979
4to hardcover 209pp index, b/w illus. very good+. / very good+ d/w.
Price: $15.00

SYDNEY REVELS [The Eighteen-Fifties] OF BACCHUS, CUPID, AND MOMUS
Corbyn, Charles Adam:
Book Number: 60230
ISBN: 0725400005
Publisher: Sydney, Ure Smith 1970
Large 8vo. hardcover. 103pp. illus. Very good, foxing to endpapers, owner's name on fep. / Very good d/w. 1st edtion. Being selections from scenes at The Sydney Police Office, and other public places during the last three years. sketches by Frank Broadhurst Presented by Cyril Pearl.
Price: $12.00

Billy Connolly's Tour of Australia
Connolly, Billy
Book Number: 4401
ISBN:
Publisher: BBC Books, London, 1996. First edition.
4to. Hardcover. 176pp. Colour & b/w illus. Near fine / near fine d/w.
Price: $10.00

The Lord Taverners Sticky Wicket Book
Tim Rice
Book Number: 2201
ISBN:
Publisher: Queen Anne Press London 1979
Good copy in d/w. Illustrated in b&w.
Price: $12.00

Baked Potatoes: A Pot Smoker's Guide to Film and Video
Hulme, John
Book Number: 32348
ISBN: 0385478372
Publisher: Main Street Books 1996
8vo softcover 206pp b/w illus. very good. From undeniable Classics to mind-grating Bad Seeds. From elusive UnsungHeroes to risky Risky Calls. Complete with an easy-to-use five-pot-leaf ratingsystem, incisive self-indulgent babble, troubleshooting procedures for the BadSeeds gone berserk, and much much more, Baked Potatoes arrives in ablaze of glory, rating and reviewing over 150 films and videos for thediscerning high.nnWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Blade Runner,Bambi, Repo Man, Superfly, Time Bandits,Highlander, 2001, ... read more nnBook DescriptionnFrom undeniable Classics to mind-grating Bad Seeds. From elusive Unsung Heroes to risky Risky Calls. Complete with an easy-to-use five-pot-leaf rating system, incisive self-indulgent babble, troubleshooting procedures for the Bad Seeds gone berserk, and much much more, Baked Potatoes arrives in a blaze of glory, rating and reviewing over 150 films and videos for the discerning high.nnWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Blade Runner, Bambi, Repo Man, Superfly, Time Bandits, Highlander, 2001, Evil Dead II, Ganjasaurus Rex, Freaks, Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, The Maltese Falcon, Ronald Reagan's 1984 State of the Union Address, Gates of Heaven, Story of Ricky, The Blizzard of Aahhhs, Meet the Feebles!nnWhy say "No" when you can just say "Fine, I have a problem" and be done with it? Why read fiction when you can read strange but easily digestible sound-bite reviews written by marijuana users? There is no reason.nnJoin us for a picnic on the fried cinematic playground.nnJohn Hulme and Michael Wexler are the editors of Voices of the Exiled and creators of the nationally syndicated radio drama Vanishing Point. Writers, filmmakers, and radio producers, they have been friends since high school.
Price: $8.00

The Lilt of the Irish :An Encyclopedia of Irish Folklore and Humor
Spalding, Henry. D.
Book Number: 23619
ISBN:
Publisher: Jonathan David Publishers, New York 1978
8vo. hardcover. 412pp. index, very good, light foxing to page edges. / very good, lightly chipped d/w.
Price: $22.00

Tranquillizers For His Cup
Laborde, Gene & Hazel Beatrous.
Book Number: 4966
ISBN:
Publisher: Hammond, London, 1962.
8vo. Hardcover. 190pp. B/w illustrations by Leo Herschfield. Very good / very good clipped, chipped d/w.
Price: $8.00

Clement Freud's Book of Hangovers.
Freud, Clement
Book Number: 21153
ISBN:
Publisher: Melbourne: Macmillan, 1981.
Illustrated by Bill Tidy. 80pp. brown boards in d/w with rubbing and some markes. Includes a chapter on cures.
Price: $8.00

How to Attract the Wombat
Cuppy, Will
Book Number: 20263
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Dennis Dobson, 1950
8vo. hardcover. 226pp. b/w illus by Ed Nofziger. very good, foxing, spine slanted. / fair, chipped d/w.
Price: $12.00

Don't Frighten the Horses
Macdonald, Alexander
Book Number: 6786
ISBN:
Publisher: Melbourne: Landsdowne Press, 1961. First edition.
8vo. hardcover. 127pp. near fine. / near fine d/w.
Price: $8.00

Mr Bean's Diary, 1993
Atkinson, Rowan & Robin Driscoll
Book Number: 5714
ISBN:
Publisher: Boxtree 1992 1st ed.,
hardback, laminated boards, VG . Illustrated with line drawings and in text colour Illustrations.
Price: $6.00

Pecked to Death by Goslings
Jane Trahey
Book Number: 5669
ISBN:
Publisher: Prentice Hall First Edition 1969
Orange cloth, gilt on spine, d/w is clipped, with mark on front where a sticker has been removed and remnants of another sticker on it. The d/w is rubbed but not creased. Copy is solid, white pages and in un-marked condition.
Price: $8.00

Nuts in May
SKINNER, CORNELIA OTIS
Book Number: 5457
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Constable, 1951
1st UK edition. 8vo, cloth, 190 pages. Illustrated by Alajalov. Good.
Price: $10.00

There Are Alligators in Our Sewers and Other American Credos
Dickson, Paul & Goulden, Joseph C.
Book Number: 5389
ISBN:
Publisher: NY. Delacorte. 1983. 1st edition.
8vo. hardcover. 172pp. index. b/w illus. very good, pend marks on two pages. / very good d/w.
Price: $6.00

The Racing Game
O'Toole, Alan , Illustrated by Paul Rigby
Book Number: 4968
ISBN:
Publisher: Australia, Rigby, 1969
8vo. Hardcover. 201pp. B/w illus. By Rigby. Good / good, chipped d/w.
Price: $8.00

THESE WERE ACTORS. EXTRACTS FROM A NEWSPAPER CUTTING BOOK 1811-1833.
Agate, James
Book Number: 975
ISBN:
Publisher: Hutchinson 1943
Or. Red cloth in excellent order, inscription on fep. b/w illus.
Price: $8.00

The Tennis Player Who Laughed
Pollard, Jack; Illus by Vane Lindsay.
Book Number: 4566
ISBN:
Publisher: Hutchinson. Melbourne. 1984 First Edition
Thin 8vo, hardcover. 102pp, b/w illus. Very good / very good d/w.
Price: $6.00

READER'S DIGEST TREASURY OF HUMOROUS WRITING
various
Book Number: 3529
ISBN:
Publisher: Reader's Digest Assoc. Pleasantville NY 1988
1st Edition Cloth Binding Fine condition in very good dust jacket. Thick 8vo. 638pp., VG DJ Illustrated Thick 8vo
Price: $12.00

The Young Ones Book Bachelor Boys
Elton, Mayall and Mayer
Book Number: 3109
ISBN:
Publisher: Sphere, 1985. Reprint
Mass Market Paperback, Fair/Fair, Humour
Price: $8.00

3rd Rock From the Sun
Glouberman, et al, Carsey-Werner
Book Number: 3104
ISBN:
Publisher: New York, Harper Perennial, 1996. 1st.
This book is the esteemed High Commander's report of the exploration of the planet Earth, the Third Rock from the Sun. It is a highly classified document and is not for public consum ption. It is for the Big Giant Eyes of the Big Giant Head only.
Price: $12.00

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS 2
SAUNDERS, JENNIFER
Book Number: 3062
ISBN:
Publisher: BBC BOOKS first uk edition 1994
Dustwrapper: Fine, Book and contents: Fine. Pages 151. Illustration. 16pp col. photo. Containing the episodes 'Hospital', 'Death', 'Morocco', 'New Best Friends', 'Poor' and 'Birth'.
Price: $15.00

Dame Edna's Bedside Companion
Barry Humphries
Book Number: 2884
ISBN:
Publisher: Corgie 1983
Luscious Limp Edition. Illustrated wrappers, very good.168pp. Illustrated throughout.
Price: $8.00

Literary [grates] greats
Marrazza, Frank.
Book Number: 29577
ISBN: 0646248588
Publisher: Artarmon, N.S.W. Zen Grainger 1995
8vo softcover 176pp b/w illus. very good.
Price: $6.00

Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs
McManus, Patrick F
Book Number: 28488
ISBN:
Publisher: New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1987
8vo. hardcover. 198pp. b/w illus. very good, large owner''s inscription on fep. / very good d/w.'
Price: $8.00

What the Dickins! : a symposium of pieces from the low life
Dickins, Barry
Book Number: 29876
ISBN: 0140072535
Publisher: Ringwood, Vic. Penguin 1985
8vo softcover 179pp b/w illus. very good.
Price: $5.00

Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen
Barrington Jonah, Illustrated by Fenwick
Book Number: 29926
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Hutchinson. First Edition. Nd. c.1943?
8vo. orange cloth hardcover. 128pp. good-, cover lightly worn and faded, some foxing, owner''s signature dated 1943 in fep. / no d/w.
Price: $12.00

The CEO of the sofa
O'Rourke, P. J.
Book Number: 30400
ISBN: 0330363190
Publisher: Sydney Picador 2001
8vo softcover 265pp very good.
Price: $8.00

The Party Blonde
Mather and others, Victoria
Book Number: 30741
ISBN: 0719562236
Publisher: John Murray 2000
8vo hardcover 96pp colour illus. fine / near fine d/w. In this carthartic collection of detailed social sketches, Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney Snape examine English society from top to bottom.
Price: $15.00

The tournament
Clarke, John
Book Number: 31484
ISBN: 1877008370
Publisher: Melbourne Text Pub. 2002
8vo softcover 280pp. very good. The most unusual tennis tournament in the history of the world is about to start. Albert Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and Van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Anton Chekhov.
Price: $8.00

Love in the Doghouse
Bishop, Mary
Book Number: 32008
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Hammond, 1962. First edition
8vo. hardcover. 224pp. very good, light foxing to endpapers & outer edges. / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Sex to Sexty Volume 2
Various
Book Number: 32999
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney, Fry Publishing 1972
8vo. softcover, b.w illus. very good. Australian edition of Sex to Sexty joke book.
Price: $6.00

Sex to Sexty Volume 1
Various
Book Number: 32998
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney, Fry Publishing 1972
8vo. softcover, b.w illus. very good. Australian edition of Sex to Sexty joke book.
Price: $6.00

Cleese Encounters
Margolis, Jonathan
Book Number: 28724
ISBN: 1855926172
Publisher: Chapmans, 1992
8vo softcover 286pp index. very good. This is a biography of John Cleese - comedy writer, TV and film star. Known as an eccentric Englishman, he is also renowned for his ventures into the realms of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. This book includes stories both by and about Cleese that begin when Cleese was an awkward tall boy, six foot four at 13 years old, from Weston-super-Mare. Cleese nearly became a solicitor until he discovered Cambridge and the Footlights. Following on from this he starred in "Newsweek" for six weeks, and "Monty Python" and as the manic Basil in "Fawlty Towers". He was the solicitor Archy Leech in the film "A Fish Called Wanda" which gave him a reputation as a sex symbol in both America and Japan.
Price: $7.00

An Elephant Charging My Chookhouse
Reade, Harry
Book Number: 33195
ISBN: 0730102106
Publisher: Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. Lilyfield 1987
8vo hardcover 208pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $8.00

Look, Dad, They're Hanging Grandpa
Anstruther, Gilbert, Illustrated by Jack Waugh
Book Number: 21180
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney: Murray, 1968
8vo. hardcover. b/w illus. very good, owner's inscription on fep. / good d/w.
Price: $8.00

Unlawful Occasions
Cecil, Henry
Book Number: 25678
ISBN:
Publisher: Book Club. 1962
8vo. hardcover. 182pp. very good. / good, chipped d/w.
Price: $8.00

[The almost late] Gordon Chater
Chater, Gordon
Book Number: 25527
ISBN: 1863597972
Publisher: Sydney Bantam Books 1996
8vo hardcover 341pp very good / very good d/w. Includes index. b/w plates.
Price: $10.00

Arthur Daley Straight Up the autobiography.
Ableman, Paul
Book Number: 25523
ISBN: 0434000663
Publisher: Heinemann 28 October, 1991
8vo hardcover 224pp b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. This is the life story of that legendary Englishman and entrepreneur, Arthur Daley, star of the ITV programme "Minder". It is published to coincide with a new 13-part series. Arthur talks frankly about his childhood, his early business initiatives, his time in uniform. He offers glimpses of life with "'er indoors" and dwells in some detail on his relationship with his former employee, Terry McCann. He aims, in short, to take full advantage of this opportunity to put the record straight, and his accounts of his involvement with a galaxy of establishment figures, well-known to the punter, stop at nothing short of the varnished truth. And he offers a vision - of the future, and of Fulham, scene of his many triumphs over the last half-century.
Price: $18.00

Striking without Tears
Silva, Carlo
Book Number: 25111
ISBN: 0718111850
Publisher: M Joseph October 1973
8vo hardcover 92pp b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $8.00

Frill-necked frenzy
Cook, Kenneth
Book Number: 24684
ISBN: 0947063056
Publisher: 1987 Moorebank, N.S.W. Corgi and Bantam Books
8vo. hardcover. 155pp. b/w illus. very good.
Price: $8.00

A for Artemis. A Burlesque of Big City Intrigue.
Woodfield, Sutton.
Book Number: 23407
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1960,
1st edition. 8vo. 188pp. Good in Emile Mercier dustwrapper, with faded spine. Australian comic novel.
Price: $8.00

Bone Shakers
Reid, Mandi.
Book Number: 22661
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney, Rastar Press. 1996.
8vo. softcover. 200pp. humorous b/w. drawings.
Price: $6.00

Do You Take This Woman? ...and more disasters
Reid, Colin
Book Number: 22452
ISBN:
Publisher: Great Britain, Cressrelles Publishing, 1973.
8vo. hardcover. 128pp. very good+. / very good, lightly chipped d/w.
Price: $15.00