Books on Humour
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Indian History from Above and Below: Two Academic Parodies.
20p stapled booklet, red lettering to cover, clean and tight copy
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Prangmere Mess - and Other Tales.
100p slim hardback, dustjacket fresh and clean, excellent attractive copy, name to endpaper, barely ...
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Humour and Fantasy.
1180p hardback, green illustrated dustjacket present with flaws, text clean, a little dusty and ...
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Literary Blunders. A Chapter in the "History of Human Error". Popular Edition
xi 226p small format hardback, green paper-covered boards, cloth spine, this copy a little worn ...
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Manege Frei! Die Kulturgeschichte des Zirkus.
199p very large format hardback with bright yellow dustjacket, colourfully illustrated throughout, ...
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An Humorous Day's Mirth.
xx 174p hardback, green cloth with black and green jacket, like new condition, no significant wear, ...
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Yet More Comic and Curious Verse.
350p original paperback, orange decorative cover, some soiling to edge, text clean, binding tight, ...
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Winnowed Wisdom.
xiv 264p grey cloth with dark lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, first edition
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College Days.
164p dark blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, second printing
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Over the Footlights and other Fancies.
279p blue cloth with black lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, first edition
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The Garden of Folly. A Picture of the World we Live in.
277p black cloth with faint green lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, first edition
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Short Circuits.
ix 336p orange cloth with black lettering to spine and front, a clean copy, small tear to spine, ...
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Literary Lapses.
248p red cloth with dark lettering to spine and front, paper yellowing, ninth printing, nice paper, ...
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The Female Approach. With Masculine Sidelights. With a Letter by Max Beerbohm.
96p red boards, illustrated throughout, clean copy, second printing
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The Birthday Book of Wit and Humour.
small format, full calf, all edges gilt, to front: The Wit and Humour Birthday Book, on spine "Wit ...
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Giocando con l'Infinito - Matematica per Tutti.
viii 300p fresh and tight paperback, spine not creased, excellent, many illustrations
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Gyascutus: Studies in Antebellum Southern Humorous and Sporting Writing.
234p paperback with yellow cover, fresh clean copy, no signs of use
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Bilmece: A Corpus of Turkish Riddles.
vii 1063p large paperback, yellow card cover, very thick volume, text reproduced from typescript, a ...
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A Herd of Yaks. The Best of Eric Nicol.
vi 201p hardback, bright orange cloth with black and white jacket, good condition, some wear to ...
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Further Foolishness.
234p green cloth with light lettering to spine and front, colour frontispiece with tissueguard, ...
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Bloodsucker.
25p stapled comic, name to inside cover in pen, b/w illustrations, very good condition
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Images of "Omaha".
41p erotic comic, name in pen to inside cover, very good condition
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Flesh. Issue 1.
32p stapled erotic comic, full page b/w illustrations, illustrated front and back covers, name on ...
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Micsoda város! Karikatúrák a 125 éves Budapestrol. A Fovárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár Budapest Gyujteményének kiállítása.
xix 160p large format paperback, illustrated throughout, very good, uncommon title
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The Great Switcheroo (La Grande Entourloupe) and The Last Act (Le Dernier Acte).
199p paperback, bilingual edition, very good condition, light wear to cover edges, binding strong, ...
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The Harvest of a Quiet Eye. A Selection of Scientific Quotations.
xii 192p hardback in brown cloth, illustrated jacket, first edition with personal inscription by ...
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Szinem - Java.
574p hardback, worn paper jacket present, ownership label to endpaper, text clean, first edition, ...
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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 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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The Limerick. 1700 Examples with Notes Variants and Index. The Famous Paris Edition. Complete and Unexpurgated.
517p hardback edition, binding strong, yellow cloth binding very firm, fresh green jacket, ...
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Cricket Crackers.
192p hardback in black cloth, light wear, some marks on boards and endpapers, sticker on title ...
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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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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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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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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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