Books on Humour
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Sketches and Travels and Miscellaneous Contributions to Punch. (The Pocket Edition of W M Thackeray's Works)
383p small format, 16cm, marbled boards and red cloth spine with title label, gilt lettering to ...
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Punch Magazine, Coronation Number.
64p issue of Punch, full colour cover and advertisements, a well preserved copy
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The Next King Charles. Punch Magazine, 3 - 9 March 1971.
pp 286 - 322, full issue of Punch, clean pages, staples in very good condition, well preserved
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Perspectives of Irony in Medieval French Literature.
198p large format paperback, green lettering to front, excellent fresh copy without name or stamp, ...
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Cruikshank at Home. A New Family Album of Endless Entertainment.
vi 319p green cloth with gilt decoration to front and spine, front board detaching, hinges weak, ...
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Max and Maurice.
56p hardback with red and white dustjacket, excellent condition, English language edition with the ...
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Sketches: Young Couples, Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen. Illustrated by Phiz.
238p green cloth hardcover with gilt decor, engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard, additional ...
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The Comic Theatre of Greece and Rome.
168p paperback, white cover, plates, light pencilled lines to a few margins, clean text, firm ...
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Jonson Versus Bakhtin. Carnival and the Grotesque.
267p paperback, excellent condition, as new
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Okker Gokker Gummi Klokker og Andre Bornerim.
approx 46p large format, card cover, colour illustrated by Ungermann, one small crease to front, ...
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English Satire and the Satiric Tradition.
xiii 286p paperback, from a Cambridge College library, label to spine, clean pages, firm binding, a ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 90 & 91, 1896.
iv 312p iv 312p bound volume for 1896, Almanack for 1896 in front, plain green cloth with lettering ...
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Progulka verkhom i drugie stikhi.
32p stapled booklet, blue card cover, colour illustrations throughout, very well preserved: ...
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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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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 87, 1884.
iv 312p bound volume of issues dated July 5, 1884 - Dec 27, 1884, original cloth with Punch design ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 97, 1883.
iv 312p bound volume of issues dated July 6, 1889 - Dec 28, 1889, original cloth with Punch design ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 84, 1883.
312p bound volume of issues dated Jan 6, 1883 - June 30, 1883, bound in front the issue for Dec 7, ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 82, 1882.
312p bound volume of issues dated Jan 7, 1882 - July 1st, 1882, bound in front the issue for Dec 6, ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 223, 1952.
748p large format, bound in plain blue cloth, lettered "Punch 1952, 2" on spine, bound volume of ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 221, 1951.
748p large format, bound in plain blue cloth, lettered "Punch 1951, 2" on spine, bound volume of ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 217, 1949.
740p large format, bound in plain blue cloth, lettered "Punch 1949, 2" on spine, bound volume of ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 220, 1951.
788p large format, bound in plain blue cloth, lettered "Punch 1951, 1" on spine, bound volume of ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 216, 1949.
776p large format, bound in plain blue cloth, lettered "Punch 1949, 1" on spine, bound volume of ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volume 222, 1952.
776p large format, bound in plain blue cloth, lettered "Punch 1952, 1" on spine, bound volume of ...
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Introduccion a la Historia General de la Caricatura. Tomo 2.
xii 72p plus approx 100 pages of illustrations, large format paperback, dustjacket present with old ...
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MacFelslie Report: Too Much, Far Out. Rock n' Roll. Number 2: Palindrome Edition.
approx 48p A4 comic, Janczyk and Karnicki present: quality Comic, scarce, one of a print run of ...
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Geschichte des Grotesk Komischen. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Menschheit. Ed. Max Bauer.
xiii 417p, 399p half vellum binding, one hinge tearing, many plates throughout, nice set, well ...
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Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Volksrätsels.
152p bound in plain green cloth, excellent fresh copy, first edition, from the library of Wayland ...
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Historia General de la Caricatura y la Ironia Plastica.
84p plus approx 100 pages of illustrations, large format paperback, dustjacket present, excellent ...
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Succede a Napoli. Il cittadino che la vuole cotta. Eccellenza, carissimo don Giovannino. Lettere di Don Gennaro Trementina (ex primo ed unico cambariero dell'ex Caffè del Trimbunalo).
228p original paperback, firm and tight, excellent copy, first edition
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Historia de la Caricatura en Norte-America.
approx 180p very many illustrations throughout, a well preserved copy of a scarce title
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Next to Oddliness.
162p yellow cloth, illustrations by Haro Hedson, clean pages, firm binding, cloth a bit soiled, ...
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Bombay Duck.
316p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a bright copy, clean, firm binding, like new
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Eighteenth Century Comedy.
xxvii 413p small format blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, clean pages, firm binding, attractive ...
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Wanderings in Marylebone.
ix 98p grey paperback, frontispiece illustration, further illustrations throughout, foxing to page ...
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The Great Folk of Old Marylebone.
vi 79p blue cloth with white cloth spine, gilt lettering to front, frontispiece with tissue guard, ...
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Punch, or The London Charivari. Volumes 152 and 153 for 1917.
424p 438p plus strip illustrations, half calf and marble boards, all text and illustrations are ...
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Amos Intolerable. His Table-Talk.
112p hardback, illustrated dustjacket in good condition with only two small tears to the top edge, ...
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Punch. January 11th 1939.
pp 30 - 56, A4 format journal with illustrated cover, advertisements to first and last pages, ...
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Punch. May 10th 1939.
pp 510 - 536, A4 format journal with illustrated cover, advertisements to first and last pages, ...
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Some Notes on Lifemanship.
126p hardback, orange dustjacket a bit worn, bookplate, illustrations by Frank Wilson, clean pages, ...
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Court in the Act.
135p paperback, illustrated by Judy Brindley, a bright copy, signed by the author, in perfect ...
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Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Praise of Folly.
122p paperback, illustrated white and green cover, a clean and bright copy, in excellent condition
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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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Fancies and Fun. Limerick and Rhymes by Miriam Staunton. Sold in Aid of Save the Children Fund.
28p yellow card cover, stapled, illustrations by Anne Wilson, very good
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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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P. Terenti Comoediae.
237p plus 15p publisher's catalogue, small format, blindstamped burgundy cloth, pages are clean, a ...
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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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