Books on Humour
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Essays, Mock-Essays and Character Sketches. Reprinted from the Journal of Education.
x 365p red buckram, fresh copy, with contributions by Tollemache, Farrar, Mark Pattison, E E B, ...
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Euer Hochwohlgeboren, Exzellenz, sehr verehrter Herr Geheimrat: Briefe durch die Jahrhunderte.
93p tall format, stiff boards, fresh copy, as new
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Extraordinary Inventions: Bizzare Ideas that never got off the Ground.
48p stapled booklet, outrageous inventions from early 'flying machines' and single-wheeled ...
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Facetiae Cantabrigienses, Consisting of Anecdotes, Smart Sayings, Satirics, Retorts, etc by or Relating to Famous Cantabs. Third Edition.
286p paper covered boards with cloth spine and old paper label to spine, binding a bit aged and ...
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Family Reunion.
xiii 146p cloth, dustjacket (light spotting and damage to edges), very good
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Fancies and Fun. Limerick and Rhymes by Miriam Staunton. Sold in Aid of Save the Children Fund.
28p yellow card cover, stapled, illustrations by Anne Wilson, very good
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Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires. An Attainable Utopia.
87p paperback, scarlet covers with lurid artwork, like new condition, minimal wear to edges, ...
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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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Fiabe Satiriche Russe.
155p hardback, turquoise cloth with colourfully illustrated jacket, very good condition, a little ...
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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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First Among Sequels. A Thursday Next Novel.
397p hardback, crimson cloth with colourful illustrated jacket, very good condition, light wear to ...
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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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Flashers. A selection of bad taste cartoons from the Silvey-Jex Partnership.
33p paperback, cartoon book, inscription otherwise very good
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Flashman and the Dragon.
320p fresh paperback with illustrated cover in the Chinese style, fresh and clean copy with gift ...
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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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Flourishing. Letters 1928 - 1946.
xxxiii 755p hardback, black cloth, clipped dustjacket showing some light surface wear, pages and ...
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Four English Humourists of the 19th Century.
xxiii 192p cloth, index, fresh and clean. Lectures on Dickens (Democrat), Eliot (Poet), Thackeray ...
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Freibeuter 27: Thema: Fröhliche Wissenschaft.
157p large paperback, texts by Erich Fried, François Furet, Ingeborg Bachmann, Rudolf Virchow, Otto ...
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Fritz, No 1, Jg 1, Berlin 1985.
xl 228p small paperback, illustrations, various contributors, advertisements, inner hinges yielding ...
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Furia Infernalis Linn.
3p offprint, plain green card cover, very good: "parasites fabuleux"
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Further Foolishness.
234p green cloth with light lettering to spine and front, colour frontispiece with tissueguard, ...
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Galgenlieder, neben dem Gingganz. 60 Illus von Paul Erni.
88p cloth, old tape maks on spine, clean and firm copy
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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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Galgenlieder.
32p illustrated manuscript unsigned except for the clue "Hago Verlag" to title page, each poem with ...
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Gallows Songs.
175?p large format hardback, orange and black patterned cover, earth-brown jacket with some wear ...
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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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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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Giocando con l'Infinito - Matematica per Tutti.
viii 300p fresh and tight paperback, spine not creased, excellent, many illustrations
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GTM. The Great Teaching Machine.
slim paperback, illustrated throughout, light yellowing, very good
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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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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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Happy Families. Life and Laughter in the Family, as Seen by Children.
hardback, very good, nice clean copy
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Here's Your Medicine. Nursing for Novices.
vii 117p paperback, well preserved, many illustrations, first edition
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Herr Ober! Das vollständige Drehbuch mit vielen Fotos.
138p paperback, fresh copy, many illustrations
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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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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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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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History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814. With 55 Maps and Plans.
three volumes approx 500 p each, burgundy cloth with blindstamped floral thistle design to boards, ...
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Hogarth and English Caricature. Guide to the Exhibition of Popular Art in Britain 1720 to 1835.
24p stapled booklet, good condition, light wear to covers and edges, covers detached but intact, ...
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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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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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Humor and Social Change in Twentieth-Century America.
132p large format, grey card cover paperback, minor library markings, very good
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Humor. (Yale French Studies 23)
104p large paperback, yellow cover with red face, all articles in English, very good
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Humorous Books for Children. Chosen by Lance Salway. 1978.
51p red paperback, from a Cambridge college library, very good condition, b/w illustrations
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Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature, Vol 1.
viii 287p cloth with gilt on cover and spine, back hinge tearings, top edge gilt, includes W ...
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Humorous Poems. With a Preface By Alfred Ainger and One Hundred and Thirty Illustrations By Charles E Brock.
236p green cloth, title label to spine, many illustrations throughout, attractive copy of the first ...
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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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