Books on Humour
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Pipes and Tabors. A Book of Light Verse.
x 132p hardback with bright pink dustjacket (this dustjacket displays on the inside the details of ...
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Chastushki v zapisiakh sovetskogo vremeni.
495p tan cloth with red lettering, title page printed red and black, includes musical notation, ...
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Cause of Wear in Sheeps' Teeth.
3p offprint (single sheet folded) from Nature, Author's Compliments stamp, nice fresh copy: Argues ...
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Die Jobsiade. Ein grotesk komisches Heldengedicht in drei Teilen von C A K.
176p, pp 48 - 166, 166p, small format, rebound in plain boards with grey cloth spine, faulty copy ...
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The Lure of the Limerick. An Uninhibited History.
146p red boards (slighty worn/soiled), pages clean, with illustrations, still a good copy
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Satire.
255p white paperback with illustrated cover, pages very clean with plates, binding tight, fresh copy
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Sgarbo a Sgarbi e la sua band: Quale destino avrebbe avuto Vittorio Sgarbi se fosse stato calvo?
66p paperback with green laminated cover, as new
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Scherzi Geniali di Gio: Francesco Loredano. Nobile Veneto. (Parts 1 and 2)
347p small format, original full vellum binding, replaced endpapers, 2 title pages (Part 1: ends ...
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Die ängstliche Nacht. Bildergeschichten, Prosa und Gedichte.
72p paperback, a little aged,
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Russkaia karikatura 40-50-kh gg. XIX v. (RUSSIAN)
146p red cloth binding, small quarto format, very well preserved
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The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Showing How he Went Farther than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again.
36?p hardback, moss-green cloth with white and green illustration, good condition, light wear to ...
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Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse. A New Edition.
425p faded maroon cloth with embossed design, gilt titles, tear to both sides of top of spine, ...
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Prof. E McSquared's Original, Fantastic and Highly Edifying Calculus Primer.
111p beige large format paperback, ex library introduction to Calculus amusingly illustrated ...
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Il Tre. Operetta Dilettevole. Ed. Charles Speroni.
approx 36p orange card cover, editor inscription, very good
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Light and Leading. Being Light Leaders Reprinted from The Times.
214p green cloth, gilt titles, first edition, no jacket, spine sunned, a few smudges to front board ...
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The Comic Spirit in Restoration Drama. Studies in the Comedy of Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar.
148p brown cloth first edition, no dustjacket, from a Cambridge college library with usual library ...
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Nastennyi Kalendar. Russian Language.
365p metal clasp, some pages detached, but all present, pages clean, browned
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More Minor Horrors. Illustrated.
163p brown paperback, this copy library shelfmark tape to spine and private ex libris, front hinge ...
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The Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Dent's Double Volumes.
362p hardback, terracotta cloth with peach jacket, light wear to boards, no names or stamps, a very ...
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Das Lächerliche in der französischen Literatur des Ancien Régime.
30p offprint, faint pencil note "tanti saluti F S", nice clean copy
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Small Latin and Less Greek. A Small Book of Lighthearted English-Latin Verse with just a sprinkling of the Attic Salt of Greek.
64p little book with light blue boards, condition excellent, text in English and Latin
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Das lachende Deutschland.
304 hardback with yellow charicature head to front board, edges and corners a little rubbed, first ...
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North from Granada.
254p hardcover with dustjacket in excellent condition, pages bright and fresh, as new
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Puzzles Old and New.
xx 394p brown cloth with black and gilt illustrated boards, spine bright, first edition by ...
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An Essay on Laughter. Its Forms, its Causes, its Development and its Value.
440p bound in light green cloth, this copy from a Cambridge college library with only minimal ...
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Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse, with 87 Original Designs. A New Edition.
310p original green cloth blindstamped, many illustrations, this copy a bit slanted
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I "Fabliaux" di Chaucer: Tradizione e innovazione nella narrativa comica chauceriana.
246p large paperback, brown cover, fresh clean copy, as new, uncommon title
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Das Ironische und die Ironie in den Werken Thomas Manns.
230p black paperback, spine a little rubbed, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good condition
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Galgenlieder: Dem Kind im Manne.
ca 30p small paperback, pages unmarked with b&w plates, binding firm, very good
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Die Kirmes und andere Bildergeschichten.
70p small beige hardback with transparent jacket, pages unmarked with the Wilhelm Busch ...
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Schelmussky: Kuriose und gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Land und zu Wasser.
77p green patterned hardback with paper label on spine and front board, label on spine chipped off, ...
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Structures and Character-Types of Chaucer's Popular Comic Tales (Seperata de Estudios Sobre Los Generos Literarios, 1)
119-129p yellow card cover, offprint, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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Shakespearean Comedy: Structure and Character-types. (Seperata de Estudios Sobre Los Generos Literarios, 1)
119-129p yellow card cover, offprint, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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Figures of Fun: Further Reflections on Finns in English Fiction (= Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 77)
white card cover, 9p essay, pages unmarked, further essays by: Emil Öhmann, Kalevi Tarvainen, Bruce ...
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Comic Poems.
384p small format, marbled boards with red cloth spine, title label bright, edges and corners ...
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Dat Leed von se Herr Pastor sien Koh.
58p slim paperback with white illustrated cover, yellowing, very good
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Humor and Social Change in Twentieth-Century America.
132p large format, grey card cover paperback, minor library markings, very good
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Figures of Fun. The Caricature Statuettes of Jean-Pierre Dantan.
160p hardback, black cloth with black and bright yellow jacket, very good condition, light wear to ...
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The Grant Swinger Papers. In Collaboration with Center for the Absorption of Federal Funds.
32p stapled pamphlet, excellent condition: swinging from Grant to Grant. . .
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Punch. Volume 8.
ic 270p, some unpaginated pages (title pages? rectos only) included, rebound in strong plain green ...
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Punch. Volume 37. July - December 1859.
266p large dark water-silk cloth, well preserved copy, very good, includes index
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Humour among the Clergy. First Edition.
157p navy cloth, rubbed corners, paper browned, otherwise in very good condition
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Yourself and Your Body.
317p red cloth, boards a little stained, pages unmarked, with many illustrations, binding firm, ...
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Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks's Hunt. Vol. II. Illustrated in colour by Cecil Aldin.
372p red cloth with gilt lettering, gilt embossing of hunter on horse to front board, spine worn ...
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