Books on Humour
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The Biglow Papers. Newly Edited with a Preface by the Author of Tom Brown's School-days. Reprinted from the 4th American Edition.
lxviii 140p, original green cloth blindstamped, text clean, back inner hinge weak, binding firm, ...
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The New Harold Wilson Bunkside Book.
approx 80p illustrated throughout, red boards, oblong format, minor library marking, spine a bit ...
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Alle Galgenlieder. (Galgenlieder, Palmström / Palma Kunkel, Gingganz)
333p tan cloth clean and tight excellent copy, printed in sans serif font
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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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Lenaus Trostfibel und Gelächterbuch. Enzyklopädie des Lachhaften.
212p tall format, yellow illustrated boards, well preserved copy, first edition
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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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Yorkshire Ditties. First Series.
143p original blue cloth with gilt lettering and black décor, tight fresh copy, extensive ...
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A Bonfire of Weeds.
252p first edition, Beachcomber title, pink dustjacket lightly worn at edges with a few small ...
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Selected Poems.
xxii 121p bright and crisp paperback from Carcanet, with the classic illustrations by Tenniel to go ...
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A Nice Quiet Morning. A Fearfully Funny Farce.
stapled booklet, 12p of text, plus additional pages of publisher's adverts, Holloway Pills advert ...
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The Little Scamp next Door. For Two Males and Three Females.
stapled booklet, 16p of text, plus additional pages of publisher's adverts, staples rusty, still ...
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The Matrimonial Agent. A Farce in One Act.
stapled booklet, 12p of text, plus additional pages of publisher's adverts, staples rusty, still ...
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Comedy. Special Issue of The Twentieth Century, July 1961.
176p white journal with Cheshire cat to front cover, articles by Kingsley Amis, Jonathan Miller, J ...
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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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Facetiae Cantabrigienses, Consisting of Anecdotes, Smart Sayings, Satirics, Retorts, etc by or Relating to Famous Cantabs. Third Edition.
286p paper covered boards with cloth spine and old paper label to spine, binding a bit aged and ...
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Varsity Rags and Hoaxes.
48p small light blue cover, contains various illustrations and historical photographs, pages clean, ...
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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 Good Things of "Life". Sixth Series.
brown cloth with gilt illustrations to front, oblong format, initial 5 pages detached, rest well ...
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North from Granada.
254p paperback in excellent condition, pages bright and fresh, as new
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Douglas Jerrold's Portfolio of Well-Known Portraits. Drawn by Kenny Meadows. With a Biographical and Critical Essay by E L Blanchard.
xvii 212p original paper covered board with yellow illustrated cover, cover partly obscured by ...
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Yale Wit and Humor, being Selections from the Yale Record of 1889 - 1893.
vi 94p large format, coarse cloth with gilt lettering, attractive illustrations throughout, period ...
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Saturday Songs.
vi 124p large format, two tone green cloth with floral design, top edge gilt, old library ...
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Daddy is So Far Away…We Must Find Him!
66p purple paperback, graphic novel in excellent condition, as new, a "fascinating saga that draws ...
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Pastil #1.
46p paperback graphic novel with orange illustrated cover, first edition August 1998, excellent ...
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Pastil #4.
46p paperback graphic novel with black illustrated cover, first edition August 1999, excellent ...
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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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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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New Statesman Competitions.
117p first edition, yellow cloth darkened to spine and a little spotted to boards, pages very clean ...
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Euer Hochwohlgeboren, Exzellenz, sehr verehrter Herr Geheimrat: Briefe durch die Jahrhunderte.
93p tall format, stiff boards, fresh copy, as new
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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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Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse with 80 Original Designs.
323p printed original wrapper, name to front, period advert "Battle of the Safes at Paris - ...
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A New Light Thrown Across the Keep it Quite Darkest Africa: A Satirical and Humorous Sketch.
176p plus period adverts, petrol cloth with pink lettering, illustrated, "15th thousand," uncommon ...
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Tricky Tricks.
51p hardback, brightly coloured laminated boards as new, publisher's file copy markings to ...
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A Wee Keek Intae The Past (History in Verse)
33p white paperback, photographic portrait of the author to front cover, excellent condition, as new
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D Junii Juvenalis Satirae. The Satires of Juvenal with Prolegomena and English Notes.
235p hardback, original green cloth with blindstamped border and gilt titles, red printed endpapers ...
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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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20 Years Less 8%.
approx 60p, red boards, edges a little rubbed, mostly illustrations, by the first man who dedicated ...
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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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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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A la Manière de nos divins Poètes.
189p paperback, very well preserved, clean copy, holding well
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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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The Romany Rye.
xiv 392p green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, spine a bit pale ...
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History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814. With 55 Maps and Plans.
three volumes approx 500 p each, burgundy cloth with blindstamped floral thistle design to boards, ...
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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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