11. Shields, David.

Remote.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 14 cm x 20 cm. 203 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

12. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.

The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed. A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts.

London / Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., No Date (c.1931). 11.5 cm x 16.5 cm. VIII, 72 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight discolouration and foxing to endpapers and covers. Crease marks evident on several pages. Crack to the bonding evident on title page but book block and cover very much intact. [The Nelson Playbooks Edited by John Hampdon, M.A. (No.105)]

13. Peter, Laurence J. / Hull, Raymond.

The Peter Principle.

London, Souvenir Press, 1969. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 179 pages. Some black and white illustrations and graphs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear mostly to dustjacket.

14. Grabbe, Christian Dietrich.

Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung ! Lustspiel in drei Akten. Mit 12 Originalholzschnitten von Karl Thylmann.

Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915. 17 x 23 cm. 119 Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Halbpergament. Limitierte Auflage von 500 Exemplaren (Exemplar 455). Guter Zustand mit einigen wenigen äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren. Einige unschöne Einrisse im oberen Bereich der ersten drei Seiten.

15. Goebel, Joey

Commonwealth.

San Francisco, MacAdam Cage, 2008. 15 cm x 23 cm. 511 pages. Softcover with author photograph by Isolde Ohlbaum. Book design by Dorothy Carico Smith. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper.

16. Fadiman, Clifton (General Editor).

The Faber Book of Anecdotes.

London / Boston, Faber and Faber, 1985. 18 cm x 25.5 cm. XXII, 751 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor smudging and discolouration to endpapers and pastedowns only.

17. Doran, Amanda-Jane,

Punchlines – 150 years of humorous writing in Punch.

London, HarperCollins, 1991. 26cm. XII, 371 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

18. Amis, Kingsley.

Lucky Jim.

New York, Viking Press, 1958. 12.5 x 19.5cm. 256 pages. Original softcover. Good condition with some signs of external wear, including foxing and discolouration to jacket and some paper loss to spine. Text itself in very good condition. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. [Compass Books, No. C35].

19. Adams, Scott.

The Dilbert Future – Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century.

First Edition. New York, Harper Collins, 1997. 16 cm x 21.5 cm. X, 258 pages. Several black and white cartoons throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

20. Private Eye Productions Ltd.,

The Best of Private Eye or A Load of Old Rubbish. Originally published as The Best Of Private Eye 1974.

London, Quartet Books Limited, 1975. 15.5 cm x 21 cm. No Page Numbers. Hundreds of black and white illustrations, photographs, cartoons and drawings throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [ The Best of Private Eye Two]