Books on Humour
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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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Slang Register. Hochdeutsch-Umgangdeutsch. Würzwörter vom Feinsten.
320p hardback, colourful cover without jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, light marks to ...
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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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Taken for a Ride: One Woman's View of Working on the Buses. Drawings by Christopher Madden.
30p stapled booklet, illustrations, very good
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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 Clicking of Cuthbert, and Other Stories.
188p orange period paperback, illustrated cover, well preserved, first Penguin printing, spine a ...
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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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The Comic Tradition in America: An Anthology.
xvi 464p burgundy cloth, dustjacket (soiled), extracts from writings of Benjamin Franklin, ...
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The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll.
1066p large format paperback, very good, with illustrations by Tenniel
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The Complete Limerick Book: The Origin History, and Achievements of the Limerick with over 300 Examples Many of which are Entirely New.
124p yellow paperback, supposedly the third edition of 1932 but in forworrd says Fourth Edition, ...
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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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The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home.
64p hardback, blue coards with white lettering, transparent jacket present, bright and clean copy ...
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The Praise of Folly and Other Writings.
viii 334p large paperback, nice fresh copy, purple frame to cover, some illustrations
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The Romany Rye.
xiv 392p green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, spine a bit pale ...
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The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire.
Excerpts from Rabelais, Shakespeare, Fenelon, Swift, Pope, Maria Edgeworth, Dickens, Gogol, etc
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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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Tricky Tricks.
51p hardback, brightly coloured laminated boards as new, publisher's file copy markings to ...
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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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Yourself and Your Body.
317p red cloth, boards a little stained, pages unmarked, with many illustrations, binding firm, ...
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Zeitzünder im Eintopf: Antifaschistische Satire 1935-1945.
xli 155p red boards, very good
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A Herd of Yaks. The Best of Eric Nicol.
vi 201p hardback, bright orange cloth with black and white jacket, good condition, some wear to ...
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Alle Galgenlieder. (Galgenlieder, Palmström / Palma Kunkel, Gingganz)
333p bright yellow cloth clean and tight, dustjacket intact and well preserved, tight copy, clean ...
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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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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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Cefischer in fröhlicher Runde.
86p slim hardback, colour illustrations to cover, additional illustations in the back, a nice and ...
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Chewin' the Cud.
144p paperback, bright blue cover with cartoon, very good condition, some light wear to covers and ...
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Comedy: An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith; Laughter by Henri Bergson.
xvi 260p paperback, a fresh and tight copy, square spine, no names or stamps, light soiling to ...
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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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Dat Leed von se Herr Pastor sien Koh.
58p slim paperback with white illustrated cover, yellowing, very good
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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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Die Karikatur als Quelle der Publikumsforschung.
40p+38p plates, wrappers, 86 repro plates, very good
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Erzählungen und Schwänke.
358p bound in plain blue cloth with spine tearing, a nice clean copy
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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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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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Flashman and the Dragon.
320p fresh paperback with illustrated cover in the Chinese style, fresh and clean copy with gift ...
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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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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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Humor. (Yale French Studies 23)
104p large paperback, yellow cover with red face, all articles in English, very good
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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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Il Paradiso di Peynet.
160?p paperback, pink covers with white spine, some sunning and tanning, binding firm, pages clean ...
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Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities.
xiii 254p green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, pages are bright ...
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La Comédie au XVIe Siècle (Extraits de Pièces)
127p slim paperback, decorative violet cover in very good condition, clean pages, firm binding, ...
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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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Mathematical Snack Bar: A Collection of Notes and Results.
v 155p cloth, dustjacket present but, well, dusty, well preserved copy, first edition
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Modern German Humour: 20 Stories.
181p black paperback, from a college library, spine a little rubbed, a clean and firm copy, very ...
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Nonsense Novels.
231p green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front, a clean copy, second edition
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