Books on Humour
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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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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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A Dustbin of Milligan.
125p black and white paperback, scarce special edition published for Oxfam, very light creasing to ...
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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.
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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Galgenlieder.
32p illustrated manuscript unsigned except for the clue "Hago Verlag" to title page, each poem with ...
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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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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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Here's Your Medicine. Nursing for Novices.
vii 117p paperback, well preserved, many illustrations, first edition
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Baboo Jabberjee, BA.
272p small hardback with colour frontispiece and many addtl plates, spine a little soft and worn, ...
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. With a Frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo.
xii 264p burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, colour frontispiece, 5th ...
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Sketches and Travels and Miscellaneous Contributions to Punch. (The Pocket Edition of W M Thackeray's Works)
383p small format, 16cm, marbled boards and red cloth spine with title label, gilt lettering to ...
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Punch Magazine, Coronation Number.
64p issue of Punch, full colour cover and advertisements, a well preserved copy
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The Next King Charles. Punch Magazine, 3 - 9 March 1971.
pp 286 - 322, full issue of Punch, clean pages, staples in very good condition, well preserved
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Perspectives of Irony in Medieval French Literature.
198p large format paperback, green lettering to front, excellent fresh copy without name or stamp, ...
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Cruikshank at Home. A New Family Album of Endless Entertainment.
vi 319p green cloth with gilt decoration to front and spine, front board detaching, hinges weak, ...
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The Comic Theatre of Greece and Rome.
168p paperback, white cover, plates, light pencilled lines to a few margins, clean text, firm ...
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Jonson Versus Bakhtin. Carnival and the Grotesque.
267p paperback, excellent condition, as new
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Okker Gokker Gummi Klokker og Andre Bornerim.
approx 46p large format, card cover, colour illustrated by Ungermann, one small crease to front, ...
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English Satire and the Satiric Tradition.
xiii 286p paperback, from a Cambridge College library, label to spine, clean pages, firm binding, a ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 90 & 91, 1896.
iv 312p iv 312p bound volume for 1896, Almanack for 1896 in front, plain green cloth with lettering ...
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Progulka verkhom i drugie stikhi.
32p stapled booklet, blue card cover, colour illustrations throughout, very well preserved: ...
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The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature.
viii 96p small format, green lettering to boards, old soiling to front, colour frontispiece and ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 84, 1883.
312p bound volume of issues dated Jan 6, 1883 - June 30, 1883, bound in front the issue for Dec 7, ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 82, 1882.
312p bound volume of issues dated Jan 7, 1882 - July 1st, 1882, bound in front the issue for Dec 6, ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 223, 1952.
748p large format, bound in plain blue cloth, lettered "Punch 1952, 2" on spine, bound volume of ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 221, 1951.
748p large format, bound in plain blue cloth, lettered "Punch 1951, 2" on spine, bound volume of ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 217, 1949.
740p large format, bound in plain blue cloth, lettered "Punch 1949, 2" on spine, bound volume of ...
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Introduccion a la Historia General de la Caricatura. Tomo 2.
xii 72p plus approx 100 pages of illustrations, large format paperback, dustjacket present with old ...
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Geschichte des Grotesk Komischen. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Menschheit. Ed. Max Bauer.
xiii 417p, 399p half vellum binding, one hinge tearing, many plates throughout, nice set, well ...
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Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Volksrätsels.
152p bound in plain green cloth, excellent fresh copy, first edition, from the library of Wayland ...
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Historia General de la Caricatura y la Ironia Plastica.
84p plus approx 100 pages of illustrations, large format paperback, dustjacket present, excellent ...
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Succede a Napoli. Il cittadino che la vuole cotta. Eccellenza, carissimo don Giovannino. Lettere di Don Gennaro Trementina (ex primo ed unico cambariero dell'ex Caffè del Trimbunalo).
228p original paperback, firm and tight, excellent copy, first edition
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Historia de la Caricatura en Norte-America.
approx 180p very many illustrations throughout, a well preserved copy of a scarce title
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Bombay Duck.
316p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a bright copy, clean, firm binding, like new
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The ABC's of Developing Software. A Primer on Essentials of Software Development.
116p orange paperback, spine faded, neat markings from an engineering library, clean and firm copy, ...
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Eighteenth Century Comedy.
xxvii 413p small format blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, clean pages, firm binding, attractive ...
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Wanderings in Marylebone.
ix 98p grey paperback, frontispiece illustration, further illustrations throughout, foxing to page ...
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The Great Folk of Old Marylebone.
vi 79p blue cloth with white cloth spine, gilt lettering to front, frontispiece with tissue guard, ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volumes 152 and 153 for 1917.
424p 438p plus strip illustrations, half calf and marble boards, all text and illustrations are ...
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Punch. January 11th 1939.
pp 30 - 56, A4 format journal with illustrated cover, advertisements to first and last pages, ...
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Punch. May 10th 1939.
pp 510 - 536, A4 format journal with illustrated cover, advertisements to first and last pages, ...
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