Max Beerbohm Caricatures by N John Hall
$30.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
Max Beerbohm, the foremost caricaturist of his day, was hailed by The Times in 1913 as the greatest of English comic artists, by Bernard Berenson as the English Goya, and by Edmund Wilson as the greatest...portrayer of personalities - in the history of art.
The Further Blurtings of Baxter by Glen Baxter
$8.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
Another collection of bizarre artworks from the illustrator of The Collected Blurtings of Baxter. This time the collection is prefaced with a short story, Erina Tries to Be Popular, which, not surprisingly, has no connection whatever with the artworks which follow it.
Tragically I Was an Only Twin - The Complete Peter Cook by Peter Cook; William W. Cook (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
To his many friends as well as his legion of fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man ever. His unique gifts and the way he led the transformation of British comedy (from music hall to perverse absurdity) and his clear comic influence on Monty Python's Flying Circus and every show since, has b ...Show more
The Prodigal Rake by William Hickey; Peter Quennell (Editor)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
The Dilbert Future - Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century by Scott Adams
$12.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: good-very good
With this book, Scott Adams follows in the footsteps of other great futurists, i.e., sitting at home making stuff up that can't be proven wrong for many years. Featuring the same mix of essays and cartoons that made The Dilbert Principle so uniquely entertaining, The Dilbert Future offers predictions on ...Show more
Spike - An Intimate Memoir by Norma Farnes
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The complete memoirs of a man of many talents and faces - the late, great Spike Milligan - affectionately recounted by his close friend and agent for 35 years, Norma Farnes. 'What's he really like?' Wherever I went and was introduced as Spike Milligan's manager I waited for the inevitable question. In n ...Show more
Why Dogs Sniff Each Other's Tails - An old but true sory by Michael Leunig
$8.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Australia's best-loved cartoonist and social commentator, Michael Leunig, stirs up the dirt and explores everything that is dark and hidden First published 1998.
The Limerick - 1700 examples with notes variants and index by G Legman (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
I'm Dying up Here - Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era by William Knoedelseder
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. There, i ...Show more
Disquiet, Please! - More Humor Writing from the New Yorker by David Remnick (ed.); Henry Finder (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
"The New Yorker" is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it's also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it "a comic weekly," and while it has grown into much ...Show more
Europe Since Versailles - A History in One Hundred Cartoons with a Narrative Text by David Low
$10.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: good
Dick Deadeye by Ronald Searle; Jeremy Hornsby; Leo Rost; Derek Birdsall (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: good-very good