Books on Humour

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Furia Infernalis Linn.

3p offprint, plain green card cover, very good: "parasites fabuleux"

£8.00

xvi 200p 17cm, 3 colour plates, modern cloth binding, text clean (one or two pages old marginal ...

£18.00

£8.00

240p hardback, dustjacket, index, bibliography, very good: Riddles, Puns, Crosswords, Scrabble and ...

£8.00

£8.00

259p hardback with dustjacket, very good

£8.00

(No Author)

£28.00

479p half cloth, old library stamp, kuriös and alphabethisch, letters A to E only

£28.00

The Bab Ballads, with Illustrations by the Author.

£12.00

xii 190p burgundy cloth, spine with bright gilt lettering, nice very copy

£12.00

Four English Humourists of the 19th Century.

xxiii 192p cloth, index, fresh and clean. Lectures on Dickens (Democrat), Eliot (Poet), Thackeray ...

£8.00

(No Author)

£8.00

xvi 464p buckram cloth, top edge gilt, firm copy, very good, a nice copy

£8.00

This Merrie English. First Slips in Literature.

96p hardback with dustjacket, illustrations (Sillince), very good

£6.00

£36.00

422p woodcut frontispiece, original spine inserted, but no boards, Norman and Janey Buchan ...

£36.00

(No Author)

£12.00

x 365p red buckram, fresh copy, with contributions by Tollemache, Farrar, Mark Pattison, E E B, ...

£12.00

88p cloth, old tape maks on spine, clean and firm copy

£4.00

Modern Humour. A Nosegay of Contemporary Wit.

367p orange cloth, a firm and clean copy

£5.00

Selected Cautionary Verses.

181p orange period paperback, illustrations Bentley, very good

£8.00

£5.00

179p red cloth 15cm, spine hurt, binding soft, worn, tired

£5.00

The Letters of Emma. 1st Edition.

128p cloth, dustjacket (embossed paper, a little worn), inscription by 'Emma' to front endpaper, ...

£24.00

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 ...

£12.00

Little-Known Facts about Bundling in the New World.

£10.00

32p stapled, illustrations, a coy little tract in defence of chaste bed-sharing by courting couples ...

£10.00

Drayneflete Revealed. 1st ed.

x 70p cloth, dustjacket (fragmentary and decayed), illustrations by the author, very good

£8.00

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 ...

£16.00

The Diary of a Nobody.

234p paperback, well preserved, with illustrations

£5.00

The Annotated Alice. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Illustrated by John Tenniel, With Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner.

£16.00

352p large paperback, introduction by Gardner, both novels with marginal glosses by Gardner, very ...

£16.00

Family Reunion.

£5.00

xiii 146p cloth, dustjacket (light spotting and damage to edges), very good

£5.00

The Laws of Motion: A Dialogue. Reprint from the Mathematical Gazette December 1927.

£8.00

6p sewn pamphlet, card wrapper, imagined dialogue between Newton and a confused student, inscribed ...

£8.00

£10.00

xvi 464p burgundy cloth, dustjacket (soiled), extracts from writings of Benjamin Franklin, ...

£10.00

vii 168p cloth, index, inscription to title page, very good

£9.00

255p paperback, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, cover a little creased, otherwise ...

£4.00

40p+38p plates, wrappers, 86 repro plates, very good

£12.00

[96]p paperback, illustrations, cover edges beginning to wear

£6.00

[80]p landscape paperback, illustrations, very good copy

£6.00

a postcard (unused) which shows a picture of Dickens' birthplace in Portsmouth and prints a text ...

£8.00

128p paperback, yellowing, first edition, very good

£6.00

£18.00

large format, red cloth fresh, medallion with Punch kicking The World, first volume only, an ...

£18.00

The World of Wit and Humour.

xv 480p large format, quarter blue leather, red & gilt title panel to spine, compendium of jokes ...

£16.00

157p large paperback, texts by Erich Fried, François Furet, Ingeborg Bachmann, Rudolf Virchow, Otto ...

£4.00

399p hardback, many photographic plates (a few duplicated due to binding error), index, a few ink ...

£7.00

£7.00

103p small hardback, boxed, nice cover, as new

£7.00

vii 122p small hardback, 17cm, ink markings on several pages, many illustrations, postscript by ...

£8.00

194p square cloth, dustjacket, illustrations by Beate Rebhuhn, ink writing to back board, otherwise ...

£5.00

159p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, stories include: Die kühne ...

£8.00

163p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, includes stories: Aus den ...

£9.00

162p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, includes: Das gestörte Rendezvous; ...

£9.00

56p paperback, small booklet, illustrations, very good

£5.00

198p yellow paperback, bibliography, very good

£24.00

235p russet cloth, dustjacket, illustrated by Bonnie Jackson, poems by Alfred Dorn, Marian Gleason, ...

£9.00

£6.00

152p hardback with dustjacket, comic history of Cambridge, illustrations by Edgar Northfield

£6.00

£15.00

10 separately bound booklets in folder, boxed, together approx 300p, illustrations, index, very good

£15.00

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