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Humorous Genre
Books in the Humorous genre:
Summer Lightning (1929)
Galahad Threepwood is ensconced at Blandings Castle working on his memoirs while around him Ronnie Fish is stealing the Empress and various affairs of the heart are going awry.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Vicar of Wakefield (1929)
The sufferings of Job are rehearsed in the person of Dr. Charles Primrose, Vicar of Wakefield.
Author(s):
Oliver Goldsmith
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
What’ll You Do When You Grow Up??? (1929)
Humorous verses explore possible careers.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Dollarature or The Drug-Store Book (1930)
A meditation of the merchandising of books in drugstores.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
More To and Again (1930)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Mr. Mulliner Speaking (1930)
A collection of short stories narrated by Mr. Mulliner. Three feature Bobbie Wickham.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Wallace Morgan
Mr. Nip and Mr. Tuck (1930)
Those two peculiar creatures from the shores of the Bay of Fundy go adventuring in the Marie Celeste.
Author(s):
Caroline Emerson
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
New Cautionary Tales for Children: Verses (1930)
The fifth collection of humorous verses by the English master in the tradition of Struwwelpeter.
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Nicolas Bentley
Potato Face (1930)
A further collection of Rootabaga stories from the Potato Face Blind Man.
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
None
A Roundabout Turn (1930)
The toad goes for a ride on a merry-go-round.
Author(s):
Robert H. Charles
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Clare Roberts
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Eleven short stories in which Jeeves exerts his powers to rescue the young master, Bertie Wooster, and his friends and relatives from various predicaments, chiefly matrimonial.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
James Montgomery Flagg
Big Money (1931)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Harry Beckhoff
Big Money (1931)
Two young men, Godfrey, Lord Biskerton “Biscuit” and his one-time inseparable comrade John Beresford “Berry” Conway, and their efforts to raise money and to woo their respective girlfriends.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Harry Beckhoff
Dream Days (1931)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Earthworms in Europe: Alexander Botts Makes the Old World Tractor-Conscious (1931)
In search of new worlds to conquer, Alexander Botts, natural born salesman, sails for Europe with eight Earthworm tractors in the hold.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Tony Sarg
Hilarie Belloc’s Cautionary Verses (1931)
The complete collection of humorous verses by the English master.
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Nicolas Bentley
Basil T. Blackwood
If I Were You (1931)
In a tip of the hat to Gilbert and Sullivan, P.G. Wodehouse presents Anthony, Fifth Earl of Droitwich and hairdresser Syd Price who may or may not have been switched by the nanny.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
If I Were You (1931)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Henrietta Starrett
Jeeves Omnibus (1931)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Salomon and Joseph Abbey