Books on Humour
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The Dunny Door and Some More. A Celebration of Kiwi Loos, Longdrops and Little Houses.
110p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, in excellent condition, like new, a scarce ...
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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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The Limerick. 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Index.
lxxvii 516p green cloth firm and fresh, cloth, yellow jacket present, a very good copy: There was a ...
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The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire.
178p hardback with fresh dustjacket, many illustrations, a tight and clean copy, new
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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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A Tale of a Tub and Other Satires.
325p hardback, blue cloth with blue jacket, very good condition, light wear and some sunning to ...
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Come ti Erudisco il Pupo.
213p paperback, turquoise cover with cartoon, white spine, very good condition, minimal wear, some ...
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Considerazioni Filosofiche del Gatto Murr.
160p paperback, beige cover with flaps, minimal wear, a few light smudges to cover, binding firm, ...
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Die Schönsten Bildergeschichten.
309p lard format hardback with red boards, minor wear to covers, edges sharp, binding tight, hinges ...
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Dr Jack's Third Illustrated South African Byrd Book.
72p paperback, scarlet cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, binding tight, all pages ...
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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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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 and Fantasy.
1180p hardback, green illustrated dustjacket present with flaws, text clean, a little dusty and ...
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Il Realismo di Chaplin.
229p paperback, white covers with black spine and purple artwork, very good condition, a little ...
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Il Tre. Operetta Dilettevole. Ed. Charles Speroni.
approx 36p orange card cover, editor inscription, very good
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Less Eminent Victorians.
approx 60p of limericks with illustrations, cloth, A4 format, first edition, very good
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L'Ombra del Gatto. Il magico sorriso di Lewis Carroll.
172p paperback with illustrated yellow card cover, nice copy, very well preserved
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Martialis Epigrammata Selecta: Select Epigrams from Martial with English Notes by F A Paley and W H Stone.
xx 460p small format, brown cloth, fresh and clean copy, binding tight, text clean, name to ...
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Mr. Gillray. The Caricaturist. A Biography with 147 Illustrations.
vi 266p large hardback, red cloth with gilt lettering and yellow jacket, good condition, light wear ...
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On Nous Écrit de Gonfle-Boufigue.
250p cream paperback, illustrated cover rather darkened particularly to spine, top corner very ...
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Select Fragments of the Greek Comic Poets.
xxii 203p original burgundy cloth, nice clean copy, from a Cambridge college library, "annexe ...
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Select Fragments of the Greek Comic Poets.
xxii 203p hardback, burgundy cloth, good condition, light wear to cover, some ink and pencil marks ...
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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 Annotated Alice. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Illustrated by John Tenniel, With Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner.
352p large paperback, introduction by Gardner, both novels with marginal glosses by Gardner, very ...
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The Birthday Book of Wit and Humour.
small format, full calf, all edges gilt, to front: The Wit and Humour Birthday Book, on spine "Wit ...
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The Complete Alec.
136p paperback comic, brown and white illustrated cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover ...
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The Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Dent's Double Volumes.
362p hardback, terracotta cloth with peach jacket, light wear to boards, endpapers foxed, ...
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The Hunting of the Snark and Other Lewis Carroll Verses.
63p small hardback with dustjacket, spine a little faded otherwise very well preserved, pencil note ...
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The Lingua Franca of the Corporate Banker. An Exploration and Explanation of the Idiosyncrasies of Business.
137p paperback, lime green cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, binding tight, pages ...
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The Reactionary Joke Book.
vi 90p paperback, scarlet cover with cartoon, very good condition, light wear to cover edges, ...
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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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Tradizioni Popolari Italiane.
193p paperback, green cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, well preserved, first ...
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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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Wanderings in Marylebone.
ix 98p grey paperback, frontispiece illustration, further illustrations throughout, foxing to page ...
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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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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. A New Edition.
425p faded maroon cloth with embossed design, gilt titles, tear to both sides of top of spine, ...
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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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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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Images of "Omaha".
41p erotic comic, name in pen to inside cover, very good condition
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Mother Goose in Hieroglyphics.
oblong format, illustrated throughout, hardback with dustjacket, fresh and clean copy of the ...
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The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature.
viii 96p small format, green lettering to boards, old soiling to front, colour frontispiece and ...
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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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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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