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Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Little Disturbances Of Man

$10.00 AUD
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

Encounters With Animals

$10.00 AUD
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

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

How M'Dougall Topped The Score

$15.00 AUD
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

Humorous Stories Of Henry Lawson

$12.00 AUD
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

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

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

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

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

Monty: His Part In My Victory

$12.00 AUD
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

Clochemerle-Les-Bains

$20.00 AUD
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)

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)

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

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

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)

The Last Frivolous Book (SIGNED)

$12.00 AUD
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

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"

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

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

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

A.P.H.: His Life And Times

$12.00 AUD
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

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

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

Life, The Universe And Everything

$10.00 AUD
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

Rappaport

$10.00 AUD
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

Oh! To Be In England

$10.00 AUD
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Circus Of Thieves

$8.00 AUD
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

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

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...