Books on Humour
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Most of Us are Absurd.
96p lime-green cloth hardback, very good condition, minimal wear, firm binding, spine a bit sunned, ...
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Fifty Poems. Edited by C L Graves and C R L Fletcher.
xii 125p maroon cloth with gilt lettering, light library traces, also light humidity traces in red ...
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Private Views: New Pocket Cartoons. First Edition.
64p small format cloth with cream dustjacket, brown coloured pencil mark to front endpaper, ...
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The Complete Limerick Book: The Origin History, and Achievements of the Limerick with over 300 Examples Many of which are Entirely New.
124p yellow paperback, supposedly the third edition of 1932 but in forworrd says Fourth Edition, ...
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As You Were, Bill.
154p cloth with grey dustjacket, boards slightly soiled, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w ...
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Picture Jokes for Kids.
200p blue paperback, minor shelfwear, spine slightly creased, pages clean and unmarked, yellowing ...
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Cartoon Companion to Classical Mythology.
unpaginated hardback with blue dustjacket, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w ...
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More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions.
188p period paperback, illustrations, very good
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Five Elizabethan Comedies.
xvii 308p small format hardback, good condition, navy cloth with beige jacket, some light wear to ...
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Importance of Being Witty.
396p cloth with green/white jacket, minor shelfwear to jacket, near fine condition, very good
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Race Riots. Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction.
309p hardback, with black dustjacket, fine condition, as new, index
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La Farce ou la Machine a Rire. Théorie d'un genre dramatique 1450 - 1550.
large paperback with grey cover, protective film fitted, from a Cambridge college library, ...
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Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel.
119p red speckled hardback with white dustjacket, very good condition, jacket sowwhat worn, faint ...
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Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel.
119p red speckled hardback, excellent condition, cover a little chipped, internally small amount of ...
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Behind the Beyond.
197p red hardback with dark lettering on spine and cover, colour frontisp and plates, a well ...
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The Aunt Maria Sketches.
20p blue booklet, stapled, slight foxing, rare title: Aunt Maria goes to the Zoo, Aunt Maria goes ...
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What ever happened to ...?: A Collection of things remembered because once they were important to us.
black notebook style binding with cloth spine, printed in many colours, very good first edition
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Humour of Parliament and Parliamentary Elections.
158p blue hardback, paper brown and stiff but clean, first edition, good condition, 'Garbled ...
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High Hats and Sly-Boots.
61p with b/w dustjacket, illustrations, clean copy, first edition, very good
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Allerlee aus d'r Äberlausitz. Heiteres und Ernstes in Oberlausitzer Mundart. Vol 4 only.
241p terracotta cloth with black ornaments and gilt lettering, a fresh and firm clean copy
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Erzählungen und Schwänke.
358p bound in plain blue cloth with spine tearing, a nice clean copy
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The First 20 Years of Monty Python.
288 pages large format paperback, excellent copy, no names or stamps
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Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities.
xiii 254p green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, pages are bright ...
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Happy Families. Life and Laughter in the Family, as Seen by Children.
hardback, very good, nice clean copy
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Talent, Wonder and Delight. A Scrapbook of Victorian Entertainment.
88p paperback, very good with shelfmark
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The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire.
Excerpts from Rabelais, Shakespeare, Fenelon, Swift, Pope, Maria Edgeworth, Dickens, Gogol, etc
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The Appalling Guests, Social Stereotypes from the Telegraph Magazine.
96p hardback with white illustrated jacket, little use, pages clean with illustrations throughout, ...
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Who Put the Wit in Switzerland?
94p yellow paperback with illustrated laminated cover, as new
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In Praise of Humour. An Anthology of Enjoyment.
64p small cerise hardback with happy and sad face patterned paper boards, first edition, pages ...
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The Celebated Comic Song, Purty Molly Brallaghan, as sung by Mr Power, Mr Leonard, and Mr Colins, written by Miss M P M'Ghie. The Music Arranged and Partly Composed by W M'Ghie.
title and 2 pages, p2 contains additional text, "fifth edition" on title, printed from plate ...
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Illustrating Asia. Comics, Humour, Magazines and Picture Books.
249p hardback with green pictorial laminated jacket, as new, pages clean with plates, references ...
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Verse and Worse. A Private Collection. Drawings by V H Drummond.
288p red paperback, pages clean with illustrations throughout, very good
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Je Vous Salue Mesdames!
216p white paperback with pictorial laminated cover, slight creasing to spine but pages clean with ...
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The Social Survival Handbook. Illustrated by Simon Torrance.
142p white paperback with illustrated panel and laminated cover, landscape format, pages clean with ...
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The Cena Trimalchionis together with Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and a Selection of Pompeian Inscriptions. Edited by W B Sedgwick.
146p burgundy cloth with black lettering and decoration to cover, spine a little soft, ...
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Hu is Hu? Wer ist [denn schon] wer? Konrads politische Erben.
96p (no pagination) paperback, illustrations, bright orange cover, neat and clean copy with ...
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The Portable Swift. The Greatest Satirist in Our Language Here Richly Represented By the Best of His Essays, Poems, Letters, Journals and Complete Gulliver's Travels.
601p paperback with green and brown illustrated cover, very good condition, firm binding, a few ...
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A Tale of a Tub and Other Satires.
325p hardback, blue cloth with blue jacket, very good condition, light wear and some sunning to ...
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The Intelligent Teacher's Guide to Preferment. Illustrated by Biro. First Edition.
96p primrose cloth with red lettering to spine, jacket a little worn and dust marked, minor foxing ...
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Oxford: Oddfellows and Funny Tales.
49p stapled paperback with pictorial card cover, pages clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout, ...
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Flashers. A selection of bad taste cartoons from the Silvey-Jex Partnership.
33p paperback, cartoon book, inscription otherwise very good
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Herr Ober! Das vollständige Drehbuch mit vielen Fotos.
138p paperback, fresh copy, many illustrations
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Le Rire: Essai sur la Signification du Comique.
viii 157p red paperback, fresh and clean
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What me, Sir? Episodes in the Life of a Young Teacher fresh from College.
95p paperback, illustrations, very good
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