Books on Humour
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O Ye Jogs & Juleps! Illustrated by Karla Kuskin.
95p very tight and fresh period paperback, green frame to cover, spine very tight and not creased, ...
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She Was Fat, She Was Fair, She Was Forty. Comic Song. Sung by Fred French.
4 pages, title, music, additional verses, publishers adverts to back, large format, removed from ...
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Münchhausen: Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe, vierter Theil.
v 168p small green cloth, cover a little dirty, foxing, firm binding, still very well preserved copy
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Münchhausen. Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe. Zweiter Theil.
iv 189p original paper covered boards (a little dusty but firm), contains Acta ...
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Next to Oddliness.
162p yellow cloth, illustrations by Haro Hedson, clean pages, firm binding, cloth a bit soiled, ...
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£124.00
Douglas Jerrold's Portfolio of Well-Known Portraits. Drawn by Kenny Meadows. With a Biographical and Critical Essay by E L Blanchard.
xvii 212p original paper covered board with yellow illustrated cover, cover partly obscured by ...
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Chanticlere. No 115, Lent Term 1938.
64p slim paperback, cover with cockerel design, a nice clean copy, with plates, original, pencil ...
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Der Alybaaba baaseldytsch. Fääderezaichnige vo der Therèse Robert.
72p bright red hardback, illustrations, hardly used, a fresh and clean copy
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D Junii Juvenalis Satirae. The Satires of Juvenal with Prolegomena and English Notes.
235p hardback, original green cloth with blindstamped border and gilt titles, red printed endpapers ...
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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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Lenaus Trostfibel und Gelächterbuch. Enzyklopädie des Lachhaften.
212p tall format, yellow illustrated boards, well preserved copy, first edition
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Tricky Tricks.
51p hardback, brightly coloured laminated boards as new, publisher's file copy markings to ...
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Die Karikatur als Quelle der Publikumsforschung.
40p+38p plates, wrappers, 86 repro plates, very good
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The Prince Charles Heirside Book.
approx 25p small format square hardback, photographic plates, very good
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£36.00
Manege Frei! Die Kulturgeschichte des Zirkus.
199p very large format hardback with bright yellow dustjacket, colourfully illustrated throughout, ...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream.
159p small paperback, white cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover and edges, binding ...
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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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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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The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain: Political and Religious Culture, 1500 - 1820.
ix 242p hardback, as new, never used, excellent copy
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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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Last Essays of Elia.
219p dull green cloth, gilt to spine, frontispiece, superb condition
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Erzählungen und Schwänke.
358p bound in plain blue cloth with spine tearing, a nice clean copy
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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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Drayneflete Revealed. 1st ed.
x 70p cloth, dustjacket (fragmentary and decayed), illustrations by the author, very good
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Private Views: New Pocket Cartoons. First Edition.
64p small format cloth with cream dustjacket, brown coloured pencil mark to front endpaper, ...
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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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Behind the Beyond.
197p red hardback with dark lettering on spine and cover, colour frontisp and plates, a well ...
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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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Further Foolishness.
234p green cloth with light lettering to spine and front, colour frontispiece with tissueguard, ...
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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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Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy.
vi 217p blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, first edition, ...
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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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Short Circuits.
ix 336p orange cloth with black lettering to spine and front, a clean copy, small tear to spine, ...
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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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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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Winnowed Wisdom.
xiv 264p grey cloth with dark lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, first edition
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Edward Lear Selected Letters.
xxxiii 325p hardback (blue cloth) with bright dustjacket, excellent copy, illustrations throughout, ...
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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 Nonsense Books of Edward Lear.
320p mass market paperback, a well preserved copy, spine not creased, illustrated troughout, ...
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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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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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Illustrating Asia. Comics, Humour, Magazines and Picture books.
249p hardback with green pictorial laminated jacket, as new, pages clean with plates, references ...
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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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The Laws of Motion: A Dialogue. Reprint from the Mathematical Gazette December 1927.
6p sewn pamphlet, card wrapper, imagined dialogue between Newton and a confused student, inscribed ...
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Edward Lear. A Life.
xv 360p sturdy paperback, blue and beige covers, like new condition, no significant wear, tight ...
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Aphorismen. Zeichnungen von Fritz Fischer.
62p card cover with illustration to front, illustrations, hardly used, very good, Zweite Auflage.
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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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Importance of Being Witty.
396p cloth with green/white jacket, minor shelfwear to jacket, near fine condition, very good
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