Books on Humour
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99 Limericks mit dem nötigsten Kommentar für Nicht-Engländer.
79p little hardback, laminated cover with green marbled design and smiling cartoon lion, English ...
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24 Recitationettes. Being Tales Told in Verse.
20p booklet, stapled, slightly creased, dirty and foxed, but a rare curious item
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20 Years Less 8%.
approx 60p, red boards, edges a little rubbed, mostly illustrations, by the first man who dedicated ...
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1066 and All That. A Memorable History of England, Comprising all the Parts you can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates. Illustrated by J Reynolds. Eleventh Edition.
xii 115p burgundy cloth with gilt illustrations to front, nice clean copy
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1000 Worte Deutsch: Ein Sprachführer für Nachdenkliche.
10 separately bound booklets in folder, boxed, together approx 300p, illustrations, index, very good
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Zeitzünder im Eintopf: Antifaschistische Satire 1935-1945.
xli 155p red boards, very good
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You've Got Me on the Hook: A Catch of the Funniest Cartoons About Fishing By Leading Cartoonists.
blue hardback, tall format, illustrated throughout, very good
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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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Yorkshire Ditties. First Series.
143p original blue cloth with gilt lettering and black décor, tight fresh copy, extensive ...
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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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Year Book of English Studies: Volume 14, 1984. Special Number: Satire. Essays in Memory of Robert C Elliott, 1914 - 1981.
366p large format orange paperback, a clean and tight copy from a Cambridge college library, ...
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Yale Wit and Humor, being Selections from the Yale Record of 1889 - 1893.
vi 94p large format, coarse cloth with gilt lettering, attractive illustrations throughout, period ...
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Witz, Lyrik, Sprache: Beiträge zur Literatur- und Sprachtheorie mit einem Anhang über den Fortschritt der Wissenschaft.
253p cloth, dustjacket, index, notes, tables, very good
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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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Who Put the Wit in Switzerland?
94p yellow paperback with illustrated laminated cover, as new
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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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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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Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse with 80 Original Designs.
323p printed original wrapper, name to front, period advert "Battle of the Safes at Paris - ...
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What's the Use?
64p slim hardback pink laminated boards, edges a little dusty, very good
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What's My Motivation?
311p paperback, white cover, very good condition, some very light wear and a few light marks to ...
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What me, Sir? Episodes in the Life of a Young Teacher fresh from College.
95p paperback, illustrations, very good
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What ever happened to ...?: A Collection of things remembered because once they were important to us.
black notebook style binding with cloth spine, printed in many colours, very good first edition
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Warreniana: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, by the Editor of a Quarterly Review.
192p original hardback, blind stamped cloth, text clean, with interesting provenance from "What ...
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Wanderings in Marylebone.
ix 98p grey paperback, frontispiece illustration, further illustrations throughout, foxing to page ...
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Varsity Rags and Hoaxes.
48p small light blue cover, contains various illustrations and historical photographs, pages clean, ...
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Unreliable History.
521p hardback, firm binding in sunned navy cloth, good condition, no names or stamps, clean and ...
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Uncle Fred in the Springtime.
222p orange and white period paperback, excellent fresh copy, first printing
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Un Breton nommé Napoléon. Une contre-enquête sur Napoléon 1er, le plus célèbre des Breton méconnus (et inversement)
198p paperback, white cover, authorial (?) note with erratum inserted, authors named as Jean ...
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Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Praise of Folly.
122p paperback, illustrated white and green cover, a clean and bright copy, in excellent condition
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Tricky Tricks.
51p hardback, brightly coloured laminated boards as new, publisher's file copy markings to ...
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Tradizioni Popolari Italiane.
193p paperback, green cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, well preserved, first ...
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Tor. Nummer II van de Blauwe Snoeckjes, Tweede Reeks.
157p paperback, beige covers with tanned spine, very good condition, light wear to covers, binding ...
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Thurber Country.
255p paperback, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, cover a little creased, otherwise ...
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Thurber Country.
255p paperback, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, very good condition, tight copy, ...
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Thurber Carnival.
286p original Penguin paperback, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, very good
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Three Ring Mad.
192p illustrated period paperback, tiger face to front cover, excellent condition
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This Merrie English. First Slips in Literature.
96p hardback with dustjacket, illustrations (Sillince), very good
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There Once Was a Word from the Lord. An Assortment of over 650 Verses, Bible Stories and Sayings with Illustrative ketches by Nats Jenkins, Paraphrased in the "Limerick Style."
104p large format paperback, purple card cover, author inscription to title, very good, uncommon ...
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The World of Wit and Humour.
xv 480p large format, quarter blue leather, red & gilt title panel to spine, compendium of jokes ...
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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 Ted Heath Bunkside Book.
approx 25p small format square hardback, photographic plates, very good
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The Tale of the Tub, The Battle of the Books and other Satires.
xx 325p green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, spine a bit pale, ...
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The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding. With an Introd Essay by Harold Laski.
lvi 134p hardback, dustjacket, publisher's compliments to front endpaper, a few neat pencil marks ...
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