Books on Humour
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The Penguin Parkinson. Parkinson's Law, The Law and the Profits, and In-Laws and Out-Laws. Three Volume Set.
109p 172p 169p set of three slim volumes in a white and orange slipcase, very good condition, a ...
£28.00
£36.00
Skomorokhi na Rusi.
xii 535p sturdy hardback, black faux-leather boards with bright gilt lettering, like new condition, ...
£36.00
£18.00
Up North. Told by a Sapper.
78p small slim paperback, tan card cover with cartoon, good condition, binding intact, a few stamps ...
£18.00
£16.00
Holier Than Thou. A Not Too Serious Book About an All-American City. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
72p landscape-format booklet, colour photograph cover in staple binding, very good condition, ...
£16.00
£28.00
Nonsense Cookery. A Manuscript in Original Calligraphy.
This is an elongated booklet with an elaborate thread binding, brown cover, 12 pages of lightly ...
£28.00
£12.00
Quips and Quiddities: A Latin Rag-Bag.
square paperback booklet, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, limited edition of 250 copies, very ...
£12.00
£14.00
Pigs is Pigs.
48p red cloth, title label to front, black lettering to spine, illustrations by Will Crawford, ...
£14.00
£28.00
The Silver Store. Collected from Mediaeval Christian and Jewish Mines. First Edition.
xiii 197p small neat hardback, maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine, very good condition, ...
£28.00
£20.00
But Soft - We Are Observed! With Drawings By G K Chesterton.
312p hardback in amber cloth, binding stiff but intact, textblock slanted, spine neatly separated ...
£20.00
£14.00
Less Eminent Victorians.
approx 60p of limericks with Victorian style illustrations, terracotta cloth solid, large format, ...
£14.00
£8.00
Selected Cautionary Verses.
181p orange period paperback, illustrations by N Bentley, very good copy, name in pencil to cover ...
£8.00
£8.00
Selected Cautionary Verses.
181p orange period paperback, illustrations Bentley, very good copy, no names or stamps, first ...
£8.00
£20.00
Billy Liar on the Moon. With an Extensive Inscription by Nicholas Coleridge.
240p hardback, dustjacket, very extensive inscription by Nicholas Coleridge over three pages ...
£20.00
£16.00
Quibble's Cocoa. Words by F Edmonds
12p pamphlet, a little aged, complete, intact, No 50155
£16.00
£20.00
Nonsense upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke, and Marx on the Rights of Man.
236p white paperback, fresh and square copy, name to prelims, excellent, first edition
£20.00
£8.00
Scatty. British Cats, French Cats and Cosmopolitan Cats.
Small square format paperback, red and white illustrated cover with matching dustjacket, jacket ...
£8.00
£8.00
Lewis Carroll. Nonsense Verse.
48p slim paperback with geometric green and black cover design, excellent copy, fresh and bright, ...
£8.00
£8.00
Freshers' Guide. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
40p booklet, pale card cover, firm binding, pages clean and neat, cartoons and artwork throughout, ...
£8.00
£8.00
Alternative Prospectus 1996. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
20p booklet with b&w stripey cover, binding intact, pages clean and bright, a nice copy of the 1996 ...
£8.00
£14.00
The Meaning of Liff.
191p tall format, small paperback, black cover, fresh copy, spine not creased, gilt lettering to ...
£14.00
£18.00
The Story of a Feather.
329p petrol cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, a nice tight copy, inner hinges tight, ...
£18.00
£14.00
Le Dessin d'Humour du XVe Siècle à Nos Jours.
150p square paperback in scarlet card cover, very good condition, minimal wear, spine sunned, ...
£14.00
£28.00
The Handbook of Swindling, and other Papers.
xxiii 242p red cloth cloth with black and gilt lettering, nice tight copy, inner hinges good, text ...
£28.00
£22.00
Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures and the Story of a Feather.
xxxvi 384p terracotta cloth with black lettering to front, gilt lettering to spine, bevelled ...
£22.00
£14.00
Paprika. A Collection of Cartoons by Several of Hungary's Leading Humorists.
approx 64p hardback with dustjacket, very well preserved, no stamps or names, very good
£14.00
£16.00
Great Moments in Architecture.
120p landscape-format hardback, scarlet cloth and jacket, very good condition, light wear to top ...
£16.00
£48.00
Some Boston Ballads.
20p staple-bound poetry booklet, tan card cover, a little light wear, binding intact, pages clean ...
£48.00
£20.00
Les Carnets Secrets.
120p square hardback, laminated white cover with red text, very good condition, minimal wear, ...
£20.00
£124.00
Grammaire et Vocabulaire de la Langue Taensa avec Textes Traduits et Commentés.
xix 111p library rebound in red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, a nice clean copy of the ...
£124.00
£120.00
Ancestral Manners.
64p paperback in white illustrated cover, very good condition, light sunning and marks to back ...
£120.00
£20.00
The Catalogue of Fantastic Inventions.
126p large format paperback, very good condition, firm binding, black cover with colour photo, ...
£20.00
£8.00
Edward Lear. A Life.
xv 360p sturdy paperback, blue and beige covers, like new condition, no significant wear, tight ...
£8.00
£44.00
The Poetry of Nonsense.
86p small neat hardback, gilt-pattered boards with blue cloth spine, very good condition, a little ...
£44.00
£14.00
GTM. The Great Teaching Machine.
slim paperback, illustrated throughout, light yellowing, very good
£14.00
Gallows Songs.
175?p large format hardback, orange and black patterned cover, earth-brown jacket with some wear ...
£24.00
£12.00
The Mr Men, No 2. Cartoons From The Daily Mirror.
80p landscape-format paperback, colour cartoon cover, very good condition, binding intact, wear and ...
£12.00
£12.00
The Mr Men, No 1. Cartoons From The Daily Mirror.
80p landscape-format paperback, colour cartoon cover, very good condition, binding intact, light ...
£12.00
£16.00
L'Ombra del Gatto. Il magico sorriso di Lewis Carroll.
172p paperback with illustrated yellow card cover, nice copy, very well preserved
£16.00
£18.00
The British at Home. With an Appreciation by T H White.
122p blue cloth tight, hinges firm, light discolouration to boards, text/ illustrations clean and ...
£18.00
£12.00
Cefischer in fröhlicher Runde.
86p slim hardback, colour illustrations to cover, additional illustations in the back, a nice and ...
£12.00
£28.00
Oh, la l'art!
Large format hardback with very well preserved white dustjacket, excellent copy, as new.
£28.00
£38.00
Così Ridono gli Italiani. Venticinque Anni di Vignette, Disegni e Testi Comici: da Jacovitti a Forattini, da Altan a Chiappori, da Pericoli a Vincino, da Angese ai Falsi del "Male", un irresistibile Ritratto dell'Italia che Ride.
large format hardback, red dustjacket fresh and clean, illustrated throughout with caricatures etc, ...
£38.00
£16.00
Tradizioni Popolari Italiane.
193p paperback, green cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, well preserved, first ...
£16.00
£14.00
Problemi di Grammatica Italiana.
159p paperback, red cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, well preserved
£14.00
£20.00
La Scienza del Comico. Presentazione di Umberto Eco.
170p hardback, brown boards, fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, very well preserved, light ink ...
£20.00
£16.00
Die Schönsten Bildergeschichten.
309p lard format hardback with red boards, minor wear to covers, edges sharp, binding tight, hinges ...
£16.00
£14.00
Tor. Nummer II van de Blauwe Snoeckjes, Tweede Reeks.
157p paperback, beige covers with tanned spine, very good condition, light wear to covers, binding ...
£14.00
£36.00
People at Home.
approx 60p blue boards with gilt lettering, blue/purple dustjacket present, illustrated with vigour ...
£36.00
Un Breton nommé Napoléon. Une contre-enquête sur Napoléon 1er, le plus célèbre des Breton méconnus (et inversement)
198p paperback, white cover, authorial (?) note with erratum inserted, authors named as Jean ...
£64.00