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Woody Allen
$8.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew filmmakers have so thoroughly imprinted their neuroses, wit, and philosophical anxieties onto cinema as Woody...
Eating People Is Wrong
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the gently absurd backdrop of a provincial English university in the early 1950s, Eating People is Wrong chronicles the comic misadventures of...
I Could Have Kicked Myself
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodSome gaffes are too good to forget — and I Could Have Kicked Myself is a glorious monument to the most spectacular blunders, miscalculations, and...
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes From A Mud Hut
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a freshly minted Oxford-trained anthropologist is dropped into the remote hills of Cameroon with little more than a notebook, good intentions, and...
The Other Half: Further Letters Of Denis Thatcher
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of British political satire, The Other Half: Further Letters of Denis Thatcher presents...
Add A Dash Of Pity: Short Stories
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly versatile minds comes Add a Dash of...
The Pickwick Papers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels have launched a literary career with such explosive joy as Charles Dickens's first, The Pickwick Papers — a...
The Celebrated Jumping Frog And Other Stories
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFrom the pen of America's most beloved humorist comes a riotous collection that launched a literary legend —...
The Game Of Words
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLanguage has never been so delightfully mischievous as in Willard R. Espy's The Game of Words, a witty and wide-ranging celebration of the English...
Vile Bodies
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the glittering yet hollow world of 1920s London, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies chronicles the frenetic misadventures...
Black Mischief
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsSet against the backdrop of a fictional African empire teetering on the edge of modernity, Black Mischief is...
The Little Disturbances Of Man
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageGrace Paley's debut collection, The Little Disturbances of Man, is a landmark of American short fiction — a...
Encounters With Animals
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the rain-drenched jungles of West Africa to the sun-baked plains of South America, Encounters with Animals presents...
The Second Cuckoo: A Further Selection Of Witty, Amusing And Memorable Letters To The Times
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when Britain's wittiest, most opinionated, and most delightfully eccentric minds put pen to paper? The Second Cuckoo answers that question with irresistible...
How M'Dougall Topped The Score
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the grand tradition of Australian bush poetry, How M'Dougall Topped the Score is a rollicking, comic masterpiece that immortalises a hilariously chaotic...
Humorous Stories Of Henry Lawson
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched bush tracks to the rowdy pubs of colonial Australia, Henry Lawson's gift for comic storytelling captures the larrikin spirit of a...
From Beowulf To Virginia Woolf: An Astounding And Wholly Unauthorized History Of English Literature
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a scholar with a razor-sharp wit decides to throw decorum out the window and drag the entire canon of English literature...
The Thirteenth Labour Of Hercules
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sunlit corridors of a Soviet schoolroom, a cunning student discovers that wit and audacity can be...
The Cousin From Fiji
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNorman Lindsay's The Cousin from Fiji is a sparkling comic novel set in the boisterous world...
L'Amour
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the pen of one of France's most beloved illustrators comes L'Amour, a charming and whimsical celebration of...
Monty: His Part In My Victory
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFrom the battlefields of North Africa to the absurd theatre of military bureaucracy, Spike Milligan's Monty: His Part in My Victory chronicles...
Clochemerle-Les-Bains
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the irresistibly comic world of the fictional French village of Clochemerle, Gabriel Chevallier returns with Clochemerle-les-Bains, a satirical romp...
Airmen – Human And Humorous: "Before We Topple" (SIGNED)
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew institutions breed more colourful characters than the armed forces, and Airmen – Human and...
Small World: An Academic Romance (SIGNED)
$140.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Good condition, usual aging for a book of this era. What happens when the ivory tower collides with the...
The Boys' Book Of Survival: How To Survive Anything, Anywhere
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat would you do if you were lost in a jungle, stranded on a desert island, or caught in a blizzard with nothing but your wits...
Unreliable Memoirs
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew memoirs announce their own fallibility so gleefully — and so honestly — as Clive James's riotous account...
The Last Frivolous Book (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one of Australia's most irreverent musical minds turns his pen to prose?...
Meditations Of A Broomstick
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in twentieth-century British intellectual life command the breadth of achievement that Victor, 3rd Baron Rothschild, brought to bear on his...
Airmen - Human And Humorous: "Before We Topple"
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the men who master the skies come down to earth with a laugh?...
What About Bill Gates?: A Novel
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when ordinary life collides with the towering myth of modern success? What About Bill...
Merely Melville
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of one of Britain's most beloved comic writers comes Merely Melville, a sparkling collection of witty observations, comic sketches,...
A.P.H.: His Life And Times
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA titan of British wit, law, and letters finally turns the lens on himself — the result is a memoir...
The English Eccentrics
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBritain has always harboured a magnificent gallery of gloriously peculiar souls, and Edith Sitwell's The English Eccentrics chronicles...
The Diary Of A Nobody
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a perfectly ordinary man decides his life is worth recording for posterity? The...
Life, The Universe And Everything
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe universe is in peril — again — and only the most bewilderingly hapless hero in...
Rappaport
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMeet Rappaport — a gloriously hapless, larger-than-life comic creation whose insatiable appetites, bumbling schemes, and spectacular misfortunes make...
Oh! To Be In England
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWith the warmth of a summer afternoon and the gentle absurdity of rural life, Oh! To...
Supporting A Column
$30.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA wit as sharp as a sub-editor's pencil and an eye for the absurdities of everyday Australian life...
The Confessions Of A Bicycle Nut
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodKeith Dunstan — one of Australia's most beloved and irreverent journalists — takes readers on an exhilarating two-wheeled journey through decades of passionate cycling...
The World Of Don Camillo
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodStep into the sun-drenched Po Valley of postwar Italy, where a hot-tempered Catholic priest and a Communist mayor wage a...
The Best Of Pickering
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of razor-sharp wit and political audacity sits The Best of Pickering, a definitive...
My Mr. Men Complete Library
$70.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodThe world's most colourful cast of characters — Mr. Happy, Mr. Grumpy, Mr. Tickle, and 44 more — comes together in one magnificent boxed set, My...
My Little Miss Complete Library
$65.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: Pencil scribbles on front of box - otherwise fine. Meet Little Miss Sunshine, Little Miss Bossy, Little Miss Chatterbox, and 32 of their delightful...
The Dinosaur That Pooped Collection
$25.00 AUD
The collection is a masterclass in comedic children's storytelling, pairing laugh-out-loud humour with rhythmic, read-aloud prose that keeps both children and parents thoroughly entertained. Fletcher and Poynter bring a pop-culture...
God Knows
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A darkly comic novel, God Knows presents the life of...
Circus Of Thieves
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good — no loose pages or broken binding noted. When a daring young girl named...
Odd Bods At War: 1939-1945
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Good. The chaos, camaraderie, and absurdity of the Second World War come alive in...
A Bloody Good Rant: My Passions, Memories And Demons
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Secondhand book: generally 'Very Good' to 'Excellent'. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges. There may be an...