Books on Humour
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Sometime the Cow Kick Your Head: The Biennial of Light Verse and Witty Poems. Light Year '88/9.
235p russet cloth, dustjacket, illustrated by Bonnie Jackson, poems by Alfred Dorn, Marian Gleason, ...
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Les Jeux de l'Allusion Littéraire dans Un Beau Ténébreux de Julien Gracq.
198p yellow paperback, bibliography, very good
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Witz, Lyrik, Sprache: Beiträge zur Literatur- und Sprachtheorie mit einem Anhang über den Fortschritt der Wissenschaft.
253p cloth, dustjacket, index, notes, tables, very good
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Die fromme Helene und andere Bildergeschichten.
162p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, includes: Das gestörte Rendezvous; ...
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Abenteuer eines Junggesellen und andere Bildergeschichten.
163p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, includes stories: Aus den ...
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Balduin Bählamm und andere Bildergeschichten.
159p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, stories include: Die kühne ...
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Deutschland deine Westfalen: In Gottes eigenem Pumpernickelland.
194p square cloth, dustjacket, illustrations by Beate Rebhuhn, ink writing to back board, otherwise ...
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Komischer Volkskalender für 1847. Faksimiledruck der Originalausgabe.
vii 122p small hardback, 17cm, ink markings on several pages, many illustrations, postscript by ...
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Deutsch - Deutsch: Ein satirisches Wörterbuch.
103p small hardback, boxed, nice cover, as new
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Immer um die Litfass-Säule rum: Gedichte aus sieben Jahrzehnten Kabarett.
399p hardback, many photographic plates (a few duplicated due to binding error), index, a few ink ...
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Freibeuter 27: Thema: Fröhliche Wissenschaft.
157p large paperback, texts by Erich Fried, François Furet, Ingeborg Bachmann, Rudolf Virchow, Otto ...
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The World of Wit and Humour.
xv 480p large format, quarter blue leather, red & gilt title panel to spine, compendium of jokes ...
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Pictures from "Punch". Vol 1.
large format, red cloth fresh, medallion with Punch kicking The World, first volume only, an ...
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A Curious Catalogue.
a postcard (unused) which shows a picture of Dickens' birthplace in Portsmouth and prints a text ...
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The Intelligent Man's Guide to Bog Graffiti.
[96]p paperback, illustrations, cover edges beginning to wear
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Die Karikatur als Quelle der Publikumsforschung.
40p+38p plates, wrappers, 86 repro plates, very good
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Thurber Country.
255p paperback, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, cover a little creased, otherwise ...
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Scot Free: A Book of Gael Warnings.
vii 168p cloth, index, inscription to title page, very good
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The Comic Tradition in America: An Anthology.
xvi 464p burgundy cloth, dustjacket (soiled), extracts from writings of Benjamin Franklin, ...
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The Laws of Motion: A Dialogue. Reprint from the Mathematical Gazette December 1927.
6p sewn pamphlet, card wrapper, imagined dialogue between Newton and a confused student, inscribed ...
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Family Reunion.
xiii 146p cloth, dustjacket (light spotting and damage to edges), very good
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The Annotated Alice. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Illustrated by John Tenniel, With Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner.
352p large paperback, introduction by Gardner, both novels with marginal glosses by Gardner, very ...
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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 ...
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Drayneflete Revealed. 1st ed.
x 70p cloth, dustjacket (fragmentary and decayed), illustrations by the author, very good
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Little-Known Facts about Bundling in the New World.
32p stapled, illustrations, a coy little tract in defence of chaste bed-sharing by courting couples ...
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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 ...
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The Letters of Emma. 1st Edition.
128p cloth, dustjacket (embossed paper, a little worn), inscription by 'Emma' to front endpaper, ...
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Der Postsekretär im Himmel und andere Geschichten.
179p red cloth 15cm, spine hurt, binding soft, worn, tired
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Selected Cautionary Verses.
181p orange period paperback, illustrations Bentley, very good
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Galgenlieder, neben dem Gingganz. 60 Illus von Paul Erni.
88p cloth, old tape maks on spine, clean and firm copy
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Essays, Mock-Essays and Character Sketches. Reprinted from the Journal of Education.
x 365p red buckram, fresh copy, with contributions by Tollemache, Farrar, Mark Pattison, E E B, ...
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The New Scotch Haggis, Consisting of Pieces Humourous, Witty, Droll, Ancient and Modern, Connected with Scottish Drollery. Second Edition.
422p woodcut frontispiece, original spine inserted, but no boards, Norman and Janey Buchan ...
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This Merrie English. First Slips in Literature.
96p hardback with dustjacket, illustrations (Sillince), very good
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The Book of Humorous Poetry.
xvi 464p buckram cloth, top edge gilt, firm copy, very good, a nice copy
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Four English Humourists of the 19th Century.
xxiii 192p cloth, index, fresh and clean. Lectures on Dickens (Democrat), Eliot (Poet), Thackeray ...
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The Bab Ballads, with Illustrations by the Author.
xii 190p burgundy cloth, spine with bright gilt lettering, nice very copy
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Conversations-Lexikon des Witzes, Humors und der Satyre. Herausgegeben von einer Gesellschaft Humoristen. 1. Band.
479p half cloth, old library stamp, kuriös and alphabethisch, letters A to E only
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Taking Off. An Anthology of Parodies, Send-Ups and Imitations.
259p hardback with dustjacket, very good
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The Oxford Guide to Word Games.
240p hardback, dustjacket, index, bibliography, very good: Riddles, Puns, Crosswords, Scrabble and ...
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The Biglow Papers. With Additional Notes, an Enlarged Glossary, and Coloured Illustrations by George Cruikshank. 2nd English Edition.
xvi 200p 17cm, 3 colour plates, modern cloth binding, text clean (one or two pages old marginal ...
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Furia Infernalis Linn.
3p offprint, plain green card cover, very good: "parasites fabuleux"
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