Humour from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Dennis Dobson 1959. 8vo. 61 pp. Pink illustrated boards in matching yellow dust jacket (not price clipped). Some chips and tears to edges of jacket, tanning to edges and some offsetting to endpapers. Internally clean with many imaginative black-and-white illustrations. From the co-creator and writer of the British radio comedy programme, The Goon Show. . Very Good. Hardcover. First… Read more about this item

London: Max Parrish 1954. Small 8vo. 106 pp. Publisher's boards in pictorial dust wrapper; illustrated endpapers. Two short tears to jacket, which has minor rubbing and chipping. Gilt lettering dulled. Internally clean. Jacket is not price clipped. Illustrated throughout by Ronald Searle. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1954.

London: Chatto and Windus 1947. 8vo. First Edition. [viii], 264 pp. Maroon hardback in a colour illustrated jacket, not price clipped. Jacket slightly yellowed, with minor chipping and a few small tears around edge. Offsetting to endpapers, ink name to ffep., spots to fore-edge, otherwise internally clean. A comic novel following a Second World War rationing-starved Scottish Hebrides community who… Read more about this item

London: Max Parrish 1954. Small 8vo. 106 pp. Publisher's boards in illustrated dust jacket. Binding slightly slanted. Small loss to spine of jacket, light chipping to extremities. Internally clean other than the odd finger mark. Illustrated front endpapers of detailed doodles, and fetching in-text and full-page illustrations throughout by Ronald Searle. Chapters such as 'How to Cope with Grown-Ups', 'Akquire… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton 1971. 8vo. First Edition. 221 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket; top-edge stained red. Light rubbing across jacket and minor wear to its extremities, including a small tear at top of rear panel. Very slight bumping to book extremities and spottting to bottom edge. Internally clean. 0340105585 . Very Good. Hardcover. First… Read more about this item

London: Grayson & Grayson 1933. 8vo. First edition. 132 pp. Bright orange cloth with black lettering to spine and front board, uncommon in its illustrated dust jacket. Some discolouration to edges and creasing to bottom spine end; small tears and wear to dustjacket which has an old tape repair on the verso; bright and clean pages. A nice book with… Read more about this item

London: T. N. Foulis, Publisher 1915. 8vo. 227 [15 ads] pp. Black buckram with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Light rubbing to boards, curling of corners. Very occasional foxing inside. A handsome copy of this satirical take on the actors, relationships and system of English public education, with deckle-edged paper and 12 plates of colour pastel drawings by… Read more about this item

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. .… Read more about this item

London: Max Parrish 1956. 8vo.Illustrated. First Edition. 104 pp. Black boards in pictorial dustwrapper (not price clipped). Some wear to jacket extremities, loss to spine ends and corners, and light marking to panels. Some bumping to book extremities. Scattered light foxing. Illustrated by Ronald Searle in black and white throughout. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1956.

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… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

London: Mileti [?] 1798. 16mo. Latin language. 2 volumes in 1. xxii, iv, 5-283; xii, 300 pp. Full maroon morocco with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Marks to boards, rubbing to edges, joints and corners, and dents to spine. Minor offsetting but generally internally clean. Poggio Bracciolini was a fifteenth century humanist; this… Read more about this item

Great Britain: Angus & Robertson 1968. [xii], 40, [viii] pp., Jacket spotted and slightly rubbed with a couple of short tears. FRENCH AND ENGLISH TEXT Nonsensical French text with pseudo-scholarly footnotes. 0207949913 . Very Good. Decorated Cloth. First Edition. 1968.

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.… Read more about this item

London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd. N. D.. Small 8vo. xxvi, 268 pp. With 37 engravings by the author and 5 woodcuts by G. Cruikshank. Reissue of the Chandos Classic edition. Red cloth with embossed 'Chandos Classics' device to board and gilt lettering to spine in an illustrated jacket. Top edge red. Areas of loss, tears and… Read more about this item

London: The Haymarket Press 1928. 4to.Limited Edition. Limited Edition. xxi, 81 pp. Brown calf binding with elaborate gilt-stamped decorations to boards, and gilt lettering and raised bands to spine; top edge gilt, others uncut. In near fine condition inside and out, clean and bright. Out of series, but one of 100 limited edition copies with an etching frontispiece signed by… Read more about this item

London: S. John Woods for The Saturn Press 1947. 16mo.Illustrated. First Edition. Unpaginated. Original pictorial boards in illustrated jacket, not price clipped. Minor wear and chipping to the extremities of the jacket. Boards clean. Occasional minor spots but generally internally clean. A selection of 473 fragments from Shakespeare with lively colour illustrations by Edward Ardizzone throughout. . Very Good. Pictorial… Read more about this item

London: John Walker 1794-1801. 8vo. 5 volumes. 444, [8]; 495, [6]; 431, [5]; 500, [7]; 466, [4] pp. Full contemporary patterned calf with gilt decoration to spines and boards and gilt-lettered leather title labels. Rubbing and bumping to spines and boards, with wear to upper joints which are a little loose. Marbled endpapers. Scattered foxing to volumes 1-4, with heavier… Read more about this item

London: Max Parrish 1956. 8vo.Illustrated. 104 pp. Black boards in illustrated dustjacket (not price clipped). Some marking to panels and some wear to jacket edges, including areas of loss at spine ends and a tear to rear panel. Slight bumping to book spine. Boards clean. Internally clean. Searle's black and white illustrations throughout. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1956.… Read more about this item