Books on Humour
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North from Granada.
254p hardcover with dustjacket in excellent condition, pages bright and fresh, as new
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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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Rumpole and the Angel of Death.
261p hardback with white illustrated dustjacket, excellent condition, first edition
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Schwänke des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts.
xxxiv 296p blue cloth with fresh gilt lettering to cover and spine, foxing to edges and some pages, ...
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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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Straw in the Hair. An Anthology of Nonsensical and Surrealist Verse.
xvii 260p yellow cloth bright and firm, illustrations by Victor Reinganum, a nice and clean copy ...
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The Aunt Maria Sketches.
20p blue booklet, stapled, slight foxing, rare title: Aunt Maria goes to the Zoo, Aunt Maria goes ...
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The Bab Ballads, with Illustrations by the Author.
xii 190p burgundy cloth, spine with bright gilt lettering, nice very copy
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The Cena Trimalchionis together with Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and a Selection of Pompeian Inscriptions. Edited by W B Sedgwick.
146p burgundy cloth with black lettering and decoration to cover, spine a little soft, ...
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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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The Great Switcheroo (La Grande Entourloupe) and The Last Act (Le Dernier Acte).
199p paperback, bilingual edition, very good condition, light wear to cover edges, binding strong, ...
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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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The Mathematical Recreations of Lewis Carroll: Pillow Problems and a Tangled Tale.
xx 109p 152p paperback with illustrated cover, very little use, pages clean and unmarked with ...
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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 Portable Swift. The Greatest Satirist in Our Language Here Richly Represented By the Best of His Essays, Poems, Letters, Journals and Complete Gulliver's Travels.
601p paperback with green and brown illustrated cover, very good condition, firm binding, a few ...
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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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Three Ring Mad.
192p illustrated period paperback, tiger face to front cover, excellent condition
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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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What's the Use?
64p slim hardback pink laminated boards, edges a little dusty, very good
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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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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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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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A la Manière de nos divins Poètes.
189p paperback, very well preserved, clean copy, holding well
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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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College Days.
164p dark blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, second printing
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Cricket Crackers.
192p hardback in black cloth, light wear, some marks on boards and endpapers, sticker on title ...
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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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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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Edward Lear Selected Letters.
xxxiii 325p hardback (blue cloth) with bright dustjacket, excellent copy, illustrations throughout, ...
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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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Here's Your Medicine. Nursing for Novices.
vii 117p paperback, well preserved, many illustrations, first edition
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Humour of Parliament and Parliamentary Elections.
158p blue hardback, paper brown and stiff but clean, first edition, good condition, 'Garbled ...
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Literary Blunders. A Chapter in the "History of Human Error". Popular Edition
xi 226p small format hardback, green paper-covered boards, cloth spine, this copy a little worn ...
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Medieval Comic Tales. Translated from Seven Languages.
xi 160p paperback, blood-red card cover, very good condition, light wear to covers, binding stiff ...
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Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel.
119p red speckled hardback with white dustjacket, very good condition, jacket sowwhat worn, faint ...
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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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P. Terenti Comoediae.
237p plus 15p publisher's catalogue, small format, blindstamped burgundy cloth, pages are clean, a ...
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Problemi di Grammatica Italiana.
159p paperback, red cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, well preserved
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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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The Book of Irish Wit and Humour.
118p paperback, white cover with red lettering, very good condition, minimal wear, sticker to back ...
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The Faber Book of Comic Verse.
388p terracotta cloth fresh and pleasant to the touch, find paper, very good and clean copy, with ...
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The Female Approach. With Masculine Sidelights. With a Letter by Max Beerbohm.
96p red boards, illustrated throughout, clean copy, second printing
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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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