HUMOR / General from William Robertson

A look back at the 'career' (and multiple mishaps) of Pilot Officer Prune during WWII. Anyone who flew with the RAF in the 1940s would have heard of Prune, as he was used to illustrate the various ways in which things could 'go wrong', if care wasn't taken. In this volume his creator, Bill Hooper, revues Prune's wartime gaffs,… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1990. Hardcover. Good/Good. Philpot, Graham. This autobiography (why do they call it 'auto'-biography when it didn't write itself?) by Spike is an imaginative blend of fact and fiction, as enchanting as it is highly amusing. Beautifully illustrated throughout with period photographs and family drawings, the gentle and affectionate tone of this memoir marks a new departure in… Read more about this item

London: BBC Books , 1989. Third Impression. Hardcover. Very Good +. Very Good+/-. Based on the hilarious BBC tv series of the 1980's, this is Volume 2 of the mock diaries of leading character, Rene Artois. If you've never seen the show there's no way I can explain it to you - completely insane, and… Read more about this item

London: Robson , 1982. Second Impression. Hardcover. Fair/good. Fair/Good. Autobiographical 'sketches' from the much loved (and missed) arch goon, Sir Harry Secombe. Size, 22 x 14.5cm, 160 pages, illustrated throughout by the author's cartoons. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Brown cloth boards in good illustrated dust jacket. Internally, fair: shows a few light stains, otherwise clean and unmarked… Read more about this item

London: James Barrie, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Very Good/very good. The author would find TV fame in the 1960s, playing a straight-faced (and often bowler-hatted) protagonist on 'Candid Camera', one of the original hidden-camera prank shows. This was his first book - an hilarious biography with an acute and infectious sense of the ridiculous. Contains 138 pages, 19 x… Read more about this item