Books on Humour
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The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
original limp olive cloth, pictorial front cover in gilt, 40p 11 plates, one plate in duplicate, ...
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The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll.
1066p large format paperback, very good, with illustrations by Tenniel
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Pipes and Tabors. A Book of Light Verse.
x 132p hardback with bright pink dustjacket (this dustjacket displays on the inside the details of ...
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Chastushki v zapisiakh sovetskogo vremeni.
495p tan cloth with red lettering, title page printed red and black, includes musical notation, ...
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Cause of Wear in Sheeps' Teeth.
3p offprint (single sheet folded) from Nature, Author's Compliments stamp, nice fresh copy: Argues ...
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Die Jobsiade. Ein grotesk komisches Heldengedicht in drei Teilen von C A K.
176p, pp 48 - 166, 166p, small format, rebound in plain boards with grey cloth spine, faulty copy ...
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The Lure of the Limerick. An Uninhibited History.
146p red boards (slighty worn/soiled), pages clean, with illustrations, still a good copy
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Satire.
255p white paperback with illustrated cover, pages very clean with plates, binding tight, fresh copy
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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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Sgarbo a Sgarbi e la sua band: Quale destino avrebbe avuto Vittorio Sgarbi se fosse stato calvo?
66p paperback with green laminated cover, as new
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Scherzi Geniali di Gio: Francesco Loredano. Nobile Veneto. (Parts 1 and 2)
347p small format, original full vellum binding, replaced endpapers, 2 title pages (Part 1: ends ...
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Die ängstliche Nacht. Bildergeschichten, Prosa und Gedichte.
72p paperback, a little aged,
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Russkaia karikatura 40-50-kh gg. XIX v. (RUSSIAN)
146p red cloth binding, small quarto format, very well preserved
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The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Showing How he Went Farther than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again.
36?p hardback, moss-green cloth with white and green illustration, good condition, light wear to ...
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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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Prof. E McSquared's Original, Fantastic and Highly Edifying Calculus Primer.
111p beige large format paperback, ex library introduction to Calculus amusingly illustrated ...
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Il Tre. Operetta Dilettevole. Ed. Charles Speroni.
approx 36p orange card cover, editor inscription, very good
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Light and Leading. Being Light Leaders Reprinted from The Times.
214p green cloth, gilt titles, first edition, no jacket, spine sunned, a few smudges to front board ...
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The Comic Spirit in Restoration Drama. Studies in the Comedy of Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar.
148p brown cloth first edition, no dustjacket, from a Cambridge college library with usual library ...
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Nastennyi Kalendar. Russian Language.
365p metal clasp, some pages detached, but all present, pages clean, browned
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More Minor Horrors. Illustrated.
163p brown paperback, this copy from a Cambridge college library with tape to spine and front ...
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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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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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Small Latin and Less Greek. A Small Book of Lighthearted English-Latin Verse with just a sprinkling of the Attic Salt of Greek.
64p little book with light blue boards, condition excellent, text in English and Latin
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Das lachende Deutschland.
304 hardback with yellow charicature head to front board, edges and corners a little rubbed, first ...
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North from Granada.
254p hardcover with dustjacket in excellent condition, pages bright and fresh, as new
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Puzzles Old and New.
xx 394p brown cloth with black and gilt illustrated boards, spine bright, first edition by ...
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An Essay on Laughter. Its Forms, its Causes, its Development and its Value.
440p bound in light green cloth, this copy from a Cambridge college library with only minimal ...
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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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I "Fabliaux" di Chaucer: Tradizione e innovazione nella narrativa comica chauceriana.
246p large paperback, brown cover, fresh clean copy, as new, uncommon title
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Das Ironische und die Ironie in den Werken Thomas Manns.
230p black paperback, spine a little rubbed, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good condition
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Galgenlieder: Dem Kind im Manne.
ca 30p small paperback, pages unmarked with b&w plates, binding firm, very good
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Die Kirmes und andere Bildergeschichten.
70p small beige hardback with transparent jacket, pages unmarked with the Wilhelm Busch ...
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Schelmussky: Kuriose und gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Land und zu Wasser.
77p green patterned hardback with paper label on spine and front board, label on spine chipped off, ...
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Structures and Character-Types of Chaucer's Popular Comic Tales (Seperata de Estudios Sobre Los Generos Literarios, 1)
119-129p yellow card cover, offprint, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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Shakespearean Comedy: Structure and Character-types. (Seperata de Estudios Sobre Los Generos Literarios, 1)
119-129p yellow card cover, offprint, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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Figures of Fun: Further Reflections on Finns in English Fiction (= Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 77)
white card cover, 9p essay, pages unmarked, further essays by: Emil Öhmann, Kalevi Tarvainen, Bruce ...
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Comic Poems.
384p small format, marbled boards with red cloth spine, title label bright, edges and corners ...
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Dat Leed von se Herr Pastor sien Koh.
58p slim paperback with white illustrated cover, yellowing, very good
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Humor and Social Change in Twentieth-Century America.
132p large format, grey card cover paperback, minor library markings, very good
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The Grant Swinger Papers. In Collaboration with Center for the Absorption of Federal Funds.
32p stapled pamphlet, excellent condition: swinging from Grant to Grant. . .
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Punch. Volume 8.
ic 270p, some unpaginated pages (title pages? rectos only) included, rebound in strong plain green ...
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Punch. Volume 37. July - December 1859.
266p large dark water-silk cloth, well preserved copy, very good, includes index
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Humour among the Clergy. First Edition.
157p navy cloth, rubbed corners, paper browned, otherwise in very good condition
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