Books on Humour
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The Celebated Comic Song, Purty Molly Brallaghan, as sung by Mr Power, Mr Leonard, and Mr Colins, written by Miss M P M'Ghie. The Music Arranged and Partly Composed by W M'Ghie.
title and 2 pages, p2 contains additional text, "fifth edition" on title, printed from plate ...
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In Praise of Humour. An Anthology of Enjoyment.
64p small cerise hardback with happy and sad face patterned paper boards, first edition, pages ...
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Who Put the Wit in Switzerland?
94p yellow paperback with illustrated laminated cover, as new
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The Appalling Guests, Social Stereotypes from the Telegraph Magazine.
96p hardback with white illustrated jacket, little use, pages clean with illustrations throughout, ...
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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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Talent, Wonder and Delight. A Scrapbook of Victorian Entertainment.
88p paperback, very good with shelfmark
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Happy Families. Life and Laughter in the Family, as Seen by Children.
hardback, very good, nice clean copy
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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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Erzählungen und Schwänke.
358p bound in plain blue cloth with spine tearing, a nice clean copy
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Allerlee aus d'r Äberlausitz. Heiteres und Ernstes in Oberlausitzer Mundart. Vol 4 only.
241p terracotta cloth with black ornaments and gilt lettering, a fresh and firm clean copy
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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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Humour of Parliament and Parliamentary Elections.
158p blue hardback, paper brown and stiff but clean, first edition, good condition, 'Garbled ...
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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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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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24 Recitationettes. Being Tales Told in Verse.
20p booklet, stapled, slightly creased, dirty and foxed, but a rare curious item
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Last Essays of Elia.
219p dull green cloth, gilt to spine, frontispiece, superb condition
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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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Behind the Beyond.
197p red hardback with dark lettering on spine and cover, colour frontisp and plates, a well ...
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Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel.
119p red speckled hardback, excellent condition, cover a little chipped, internally small amount of ...
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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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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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La Farce ou la Machine a Rire. Théorie d'un genre dramatique 1450 - 1550.
large paperback with grey cover, protective film fitted, from a Cambridge college library, ...
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Race Riots. Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction.
309p hardback, with black dustjacket, fine condition, as new, index
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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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Five Elizabethan Comedies.
xvii 308p small format hardback, good condition, navy cloth with beige jacket, some light wear to ...
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More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions.
188p period paperback, illustrations, very good
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Cartoon Companion to Classical Mythology.
unpaginated hardback with blue dustjacket, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w ...
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Picture Jokes for Kids.
200p blue paperback, minor shelfwear, spine slightly creased, pages clean and unmarked, yellowing ...
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As You Were, Bill.
154p cloth with grey dustjacket, boards slightly soiled, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w ...
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A Diary of the Gladstone Government.
28p red oblong paperback stapled, chipped jacket, pages unmarked with many b/w illustrations, very ...
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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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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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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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Humorous Books for Children. Chosen by Lance Salway. 1978.
51p red paperback, from a Cambridge college library, very good condition, b/w illustrations
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Magic for Every Occasion. First Edition.
117p cloth with blue jacket, illustrated cover, near fine condition
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The Hohenzollerns through German Eyes.
32p stapled card cover A4 format, collection of b&w caricatures with German and English text, ...
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Der deutsche Schelmenroman der Gegenwart: Betrachtungen zur sozialistischen Rezeption pikaresker Topoi und Motive.
372p cream paperback, from a Cambridge college library, a clean and firm copy, very good
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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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Zeitzünder im Eintopf: Antifaschistische Satire 1935-1945.
xli 155p red boards, very good
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Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks's Hunt. Vol. II. Illustrated in colour by Cecil Aldin.
372p red cloth with gilt lettering, gilt embossing of hunter on horse to front board, spine worn ...
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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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Humour among the Clergy. First Edition.
157p navy cloth, rubbed corners, paper browned, otherwise in very good condition
£12.00