Books on Humour
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The Harvest of a Quiet Eye. A Selection of Scientific Quotations.
xii 192p hardback in brown cloth, lacquered illustrated jacket, first edition with personal ...
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Cultural Correspondence Number 9: Sex Roles and Humor.
80p stapled A4 magazine, essays by Donna Harraway (Joys of Vacuuming), interviews with women comic ...
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The Sokal Hoax. The Sham that Shook the Academy.
ix 271p paperback, good condition, light wear to edges/covers, spine sunned, binding firm, pages ...
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Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds.
xvi 248p hardback in black cloth with colour photograph jacket, good condition, some very light ...
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The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire.
178p hardback with fresh dustjacket, many illustrations, a tight and clean copy, new
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Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France.
x 248p hardback, dustjacket, as new, many illustrations
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To Know a Fly.
viii 119p paperback, green cover, good condition, some light wear to cover edges and surfaces, ...
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Complete Novels - The Prince And The Pauper; Those Extraordinary Twins; Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer; A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court; The American Claimant; Pudd'nhead Wilson; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, The Gilded Age.
265p 279p 369p 305p 337p 525p 497p hardbacks in blue and grey with gilt lettering, firm binding, ...
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The Limerick. 1700 Examples with Notes Variants and Index. The Famous Paris Edition. Complete and Unexpurgated.
517p hardback edition, binding strong, textblock still in position, in yellow cloth backed with ...
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English Pubs Through American Eyes.
III 90p paperback with photographs on covers, minimal wear, pages very clean and neat, diagrams and ...
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A New Miscellany-At-Law - yet another Diversion for Lawyers and others.
xiii 450p hardback, grey cloth with black dustjacket, minimal/no wear to surfaces and sides, spine ...
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Flourishing. Letters 1928 - 1946.
xxxiii 755p hardback, black cloth, clipped dustjacket showing some light surface wear, pages and ...
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Farce and Fantasy: Popular Entertainment in Eighteenth Century Paris.
xii 324p hardback with fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, with illustrations, some light ...
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Dies und das für euch zum Spass.
88p plain grey-blue cloth, bookplate, well preserved, some poems re-numbered in ink, a collection ...
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Cohen's Cornucopia.
112p hardback, price sticker on back cover, publisher's ink stamp on front endpaper, otherwise like ...
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Thurber Country.
255p paperback, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, very good condition, tight copy, ...
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The Mathematical Recreations of Lewis Carroll: Pillow Problems and a Tangled Tale.
xx 109p 152p paperback with illustrated cover, very little use, pages clean and unmarked with ...
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Simple Custom.
63p hardback, dustjacket in very good condition, illustrations bright and clean, text unmarked, ...
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Punch and the London Charivari. July to December 1901.
464p large format original cloth, gilt design to front, a tight and clean copy, illustrated ...
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What's the Use?
64p slim hardback pink laminated boards, edges a little dusty, very good
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La Comédie au XVIe Siècle (Extraits de Pièces)
127p slim paperback, decorative violet cover in very good condition, clean pages, firm binding, ...
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L'Ecole des Femmes.
107p slim paperback, decorative violet cover in very good condition, clean pages, firm binding, ...
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Ferhoodled English. Curious and Amusing Pennsylvania Dutch Talk.
23p stapled pamphlet, full colour illustrated card cover in very good condition, clean pages, a ...
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The Memoirs of a Pussycat.
92p blue decrative paper cover showing the image of Charlie Chaplin greeting a cat, cover is in ...
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Rumpole and the Angel of Death.
261p hardback with white illustrated dustjacket, excellent condition, first edition
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The ABZ of Pornography.
163p paperback, cover in excellent condition, firm binding, clean pages, a well preserved copy, ...
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Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities. With 15 Coloured Illustrations by Henry Alken.
vii 240p burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, colour plates, well preserved
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The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax. The First Tour in Search of the Picturesque. The Second Tour in Search of Consolation; The Third Tour in Search of a Wife.
272p 277p 279p, three volumes in original green cloth, light soiling to cloth, colour plates by ...
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Cruikshank's Comic Almanack, an Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities. First Series (1835 - 1843), Second Series (1844 - 1853)
iv 388p 428p illustrated publishers catalogue in back dated 1870/ 1871, green cloth bright with ...
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The Dunny Door and Some More. A Celebration of Kiwi Loos, Longdrops and Little Houses.
110p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, in excellent condition, like new, a scarce ...
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A New Dictionary of Art.
xiv 231p hardback, a new copy, still sealed in clear film, first edition
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The Bridgeman Art Library. A to Z.
64p booklet, cover in very good condition, clean pages, a well preserved copy, scarce
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Hood's Own, or Laughter from Year to Year. A New Edition.
viii 564p vi 563p two volumes in one very thick volume bound in very very bright green cloth with ...
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The Midnight Court. A Rythmical Bacchanalia from the Irish of Bryan Merryman.
61p hardback with bright pink priceclipped dustjacket with decorations by Hugh Stevenson, lovely ...
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The Comic History of England.
xviii 304p original maroon cloth with gilt illustrations to front board and spine, all edges gilt, ...
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George Cruikshank's Table-Book.
284p original green blindstamped cloth with gilt decoration to front board and spine, minor damage ...
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Epitaph for an Explorer.
Photocopy of 'Epitaph for an Explorer' with Ogden Nash's signature below in ink
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A Dustbin of Milligan.
125p black and white paperback, scarce special edition published for Oxfam, very light creasing to ...
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. A New Edition.
229p, 238p, 248, 224p, 222p, 205p, complete in six volumes, tree calf with ornamental gilt border ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volumes 184 and 185 for 1933.
728p 728p plus Christmas Number, Almanack, thick and heavy volume, bright royal blue with gilt ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volumes 186 and 187 for 1934.
728p 728p plus Christmas Number, Almanack, thick and heavy volume, bright royal blue with gilt ...
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![Mess Stories by "Tim Daly" Esq, Edited by F E W. Reprinted from the Madras Times.](images/books/192538_small_90w_x_126h.jpg "Mess Stories by "Tim Daly" Esq, Edited by F E W. Reprinted from the Madras Times.")
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Mess Stories by "Tim Daly" Esq, Edited by F E W. Reprinted from the Madras Times.
105p bright green cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine, small teat to spine hinge, yellow ...
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The Best of Ou Are Awful!
24p landscape format booklet, illustrated pages, in excellent condition, 'Open University' based ...
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Hints on Etiquette and Usages of the Society with a Glance at Bad Habits.
68p small format hardback, decorative paper covered boards, clean protective jacket, clean pages, ...
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Galgenlieder.
32p illustrated manuscript unsigned except for the clue "Hago Verlag" to title page, each ...
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Mother Goose in Hieroglyphics.
oblong format, illustrated throughout, hardback with dustjacket, fresh and clean copy of the ...
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The Return of Hyman Kaplan.
172p paperback with pink design, first Penguin printing, a tight and fresh copy
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Thurber Carnival.
286p original Penguin paperback, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, very good
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Edward Lear Selected Letters.
xxxiii 325p hardback (blue cloth) with bright dustjacket, excellent copy, illustrations throughout, ...
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