Books on Humour
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The Underground Sketchbook of Jan Faust.
101p paperback, scarlet cover, very good condition, covers slightly creased, otherwise no ...
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Ancestral Manners.
64p paperback in white illustrated cover, very good condition, light sunning and marks to back ...
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The Catalogue of Fantastic Inventions.
126p large format paperback, very good condition, firm binding, black cover with colour photo, ...
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Edward Lear. A Life.
xv 360p sturdy paperback, blue and beige covers, like new condition, no significant wear, tight ...
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The Poetry of Nonsense.
86p small neat hardback, gilt-pattered boards with blue cloth spine, very good condition, a little ...
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GTM. The Great Teaching Machine.
slim paperback, illustrated throughout, light yellowing, very good
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Gallows Songs.
175?p large format hardback, orange and black patterned cover, earth-brown jacket with some wear ...
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The Mr Men, No 2. Cartoons From The Daily Mirror.
80p landscape-format paperback, colour cartoon cover, very good condition, binding intact, wear and ...
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The Mr Men, No 1. Cartoons From The Daily Mirror.
80p landscape-format paperback, colour cartoon cover, very good condition, binding intact, light ...
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The Man Who Walked through Walls.
296p black paperback with de Chirico painting to front cover, very light wear to top edge, ...
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L'Ombra del Gatto. Il magico sorriso di Lewis Carroll.
172p paperback with illustrated yellow card cover, nice copy, very well preserved
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The British at Home. With an Appreciation by T H White.
122p blue cloth tight, hinges firm, light discolouration to boards, text/ illustrations clean and ...
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Unreliable History.
521p hardback, firm binding in sunned navy cloth, good condition, no names or stamps, clean and ...
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Cefischer in fröhlicher Runde.
86p slim hardback, colour illustrations to cover, additional illustations in the back, a nice and ...
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Oh, la l'art!
Large format hardback with very well preserved white dustjacket, excellent copy, as new.
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Così Ridono gli Italiani. Venticinque Anni di Vignette, Disegni e Testi Comici: da Jacovitti a Forattini, da Altan a Chiappori, da Pericoli a Vincino, da Angese ai Falsi del "Male", un irresistibile Ritratto dell'Italia che Ride.
large format hardback, red dustjacket fresh and clean, illustrated throughout with caricatures etc, ...
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Tradizioni Popolari Italiane.
193p paperback, green cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, well preserved, first ...
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Problemi di Grammatica Italiana.
159p paperback, red cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, well preserved
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La Scienza del Comico. Presentazione di Umberto Eco.
170p hardback, brown boards, fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, very well preserved, light ink ...
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Die Schönsten Bildergeschichten.
309p lard format hardback with red boards, minor wear to covers, edges sharp, binding tight, hinges ...
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Hogarth and English Caricature. Guide to the Exhibition of Popular Art in Britain 1720 to 1835.
24p stapled booklet, good condition, light wear to covers and edges, covers detached but intact, ...
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Tor. Nummer II van de Blauwe Snoeckjes, Tweede Reeks.
157p paperback, beige covers with tanned spine, very good condition, light wear to covers, binding ...
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People at Home.
approx 60p blue boards with gilt lettering, blue/purple dustjacket present, illustrated with vigour ...
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Un Breton nommé Napoléon. Une contre-enquête sur Napoléon 1er, le plus célèbre des Breton méconnus (et inversement)
198p paperback, white cover, authorial (?) note with erratum inserted, authors named as Jean ...
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The Granta. A College Joke to Cure the Dumps. Volume 25. October 1911 to June 1912.
432p plus 50p (= Special May Week Number, covers bound in) 4to format, a large and well bound ...
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Chanticlere. No 115, Lent Term 1938.
64p slim paperback, cover with cockerel design, a nice clean copy, with plates, original, pencil ...
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Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires. An Attainable Utopia.
87p paperback, scarlet covers with lurid artwork, like new condition, minimal wear to edges, ...
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Il Realismo di Chaplin.
229p paperback, white covers with black spine and purple artwork, very good condition, a little ...
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Fiabe Satiriche Russe.
155p hardback, turquoise cloth with colourfully illustrated jacket, very good condition, a little ...
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Disegni per il Cinema. Furio Scarpelli ed Ettore Scola. Casa del Mantegna, 9 - 27 Febbraio 1985.
72p paperback, silver covers, very good condition, a little light wear to cover surfaces, binding ...
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O Ye Jogs & Juleps! Illustrated by Karla Kuskin.
95p very tight and fresh period paperback, green frame to cover, spine very tight and not creased, ...
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The Book of Lear.
256p period paperback with yellow cover, illustrations, minor signs of wear and age
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Teorie del Comico.
160p paperback, inserted is a letter by the author, this copy heavily annotated in ink with about ...
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The Complete Alec.
136p paperback comic, brown and white illustrated cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover ...
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Tavi: Een vroolijk guitenleven.
219p period paperback with orange illustrated cover, some illustrations in the text, well ...
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Come ti Erudisco il Pupo.
213p paperback, turquoise cover with cartoon, white spine, very good condition, minimal wear, some ...
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Popevke i Spelancije - Crveni Peristil.
270p small hardback, grass-green cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, light wear to ...
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Il Libro degli Snobs.
xiii 252p paperback, tan covers with semi-transparent jacket, very good condition, light wear to ...
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Considerazioni Filosofiche del Gatto Murr.
160p paperback, beige cover with flaps, minimal wear, a few light smudges to cover, binding firm, ...
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Il Paradiso di Peynet.
160?p paperback, pink covers with white spine, some sunning and tanning, binding firm, pages clean ...
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First Among Sequels. A Thursday Next Novel.
397p hardback, crimson cloth with colourful illustrated jacket, very good condition, light wear to ...
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Chi Ha Paura di Lucy Van Pelt? Ovvero Psicoanalisi e Fumetti.
138p paperback, white cover with cartoon, very good condition, a little light wear, foxing to ...
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Il Romanzo dei Comici di Campagna.
xiv 352p hardback, beige cloth with bright yellow jacket and blue band, very good condition, ...
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The Book of British Humour.
58p small booklet with illustration to front cover, staple binding tight, slight spotting to front ...
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The Nonsense Books of Edward Lear.
320p mass market paperback, a well preserved copy, spine not creased, illustrated troughout, ...
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The Penguin 'Miss Read' Companion Boxed Set.
Six paperbacks in colourful slipcase, all volumes in very good condition, pleasant illustrated ...
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Sul modo più sbrigativo di sopprimere il dissenso - Un metodo efficace per prevenire i crimini di strada.
78p purple paperback, a fresh copy, with illustrations, tight and clean, no traces of use, uncommon ...
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The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home.
64p hardback, blue coards with white lettering, transparent jacket present, bright and clean copy ...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream.
159p small paperback, white cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover and edges, binding ...
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The Lingua Franca of the Corporate Banker. An Exploration and Explanation of the Idiosyncrasies of Business.
137p paperback, lime green cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, binding tight, pages ...
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The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain: Political and Religious Culture, 1500 - 1820.
ix 242p hardback, as new, never used, excellent copy
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Bags of Swank.
176p period paperback with illustrated cover, first Penguin edition, fresh and clean copy, no names ...
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. With Illustrations by Ajalalov.
217p orange period paperback wih illustrated cover, first Penguin printing, a tight and clean and ...
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A Melon for Ecstasy.
174p paperback with light blue illutrated cover, excellent tight copy of the first Penguin ...
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The Clicking of Cuthbert, and Other Stories.
188p orange period paperback, illustrated cover, well preserved, first Penguin printing, spine a ...
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Warreniana: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, by the Editor of a Quarterly Review.
192p original hardback, blind stamped cloth, text clean, with interesting provenance from "What ...
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Missed Moments in Legal History.
tall format hardback, fresh dustjacket, illustrated througout in colour, excellent copy, as new
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Provocative Verse and Libellous Limericks.
hardback, green velvety boards with black lettering, spine absent, author' signed compliments on ...
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Austrian Studies. Volume 15, 2007. Austrian Satire and Other Essays. Studies in Honour of Edward Timms.
vi 216p paperback, white and green cover, very good condition, little to no wear, binding firm, ...
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La Farce du Pauvre Jouhan. Pièce Comique du XVe Siècle.
62p paperback, grey cover, very good condition, binding intact, minimal wear, one or two light ...
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Komik in der österreichischen Literatur.
308p large paperback, clean and tight copy, never used, no names or stamps, excellent
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Alle Galgenlieder. (Galgenlieder, Palmström / Palma Kunkel, Gingganz)
333p bright yellow cloth clean and tight, dustjacket intact and well preserved, tight copy, clean ...
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Mr. Gillray. The Caricaturist. A Biography with 147 Illustrations.
vi 266p large hardback, red cloth with gilt lettering and yellow jacket, good condition, light wear ...
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Kemps Nine Daies Wonder. Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich.
ii 30p stapled booklet, scarlet cover, very good condition, sunned spine, binding firm, pages very ...
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£56.00
Jackal Farm: Or, Jungle of Good Jackals.
xvi 269p paperback with rose wrapper, author inscription, clean and tight copy, uncommon title
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I am America (and so can you!) Advance Blad Excerpt, Incomplete, Uncorrected, Subject to Change
32p stapled booklet, promotional title, containing excepts and references to marketing, uncommon ...
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The Book of Irish Wit and Humour.
118p paperback, white cover with red lettering, very good condition, minimal wear, sticker to back ...
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Chewin' the Cud.
144p paperback, bright blue cover with cartoon, very good condition, some light wear to covers and ...
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The Reactionary Joke Book.
vi 90p paperback, scarlet cover with cartoon, very good condition, light wear to cover edges, ...
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Dr Jack's Third Illustrated South African Byrd Book.
72p paperback, scarlet cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, binding tight, all pages ...
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The Complete Home Entertainer. Games and Amusements for the Whole Family.
512p hardback, navy cloth, good condition, some light wear commensurate with age, spine sunned, ...
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What's My Motivation?
311p paperback, white cover, very good condition, some very light wear and a few light marks to ...
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Medieval Comic Tales. Translated from Seven Languages.
xi 160p paperback, blood-red card cover, very good condition, light wear to covers, binding stiff ...
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Puffin 50th Anniversary Storybook Box. Ten Volumes and Anniversary Pamphlet.
Boxed set of ten paperbacks, good condition, light wear, one edge of box torn, binding intact if a ...
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Flashman and the Dragon.
320p fresh paperback with illustrated cover in the Chinese style, fresh and clean copy with gift ...
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Indian History from Above and Below: Two Academic Parodies.
20p stapled booklet, red lettering to cover, clean and tight copy
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Prangmere Mess - and Other Tales.
100p slim hardback, dustjacket fresh and clean, excellent attractive copy, name to endpaper, barely ...
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Humour and Fantasy.
1180p hardback, green illustrated dustjacket present with flaws, text clean, a little dusty and ...
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Literary Blunders. A Chapter in the "History of Human Error". Popular Edition
xi 226p small format hardback, green paper-covered boards, cloth spine, this copy a little worn ...
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There Once Was a Word from the Lord. An Assortment of over 650 Verses, Bible Stories and Sayings with Illustrative ketches by Nats Jenkins, Paraphrased in the "Limerick Style."
104p large format paperback, purple card cover, author inscription to title, very good, uncommon ...
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Manege Frei! Die Kulturgeschichte des Zirkus.
199p very large format hardback with bright yellow dustjacket, colourfully illustrated throughout, ...
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£56.00
An Humorous Day's Mirth.
xx 174p hardback, green cloth with black and green jacket, like new condition, no significant wear, ...
£56.00
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Yet More Comic and Curious Verse.
350p original paperback, orange decorative cover, some soiling to edge, text clean, binding tight, ...
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Slang Register. Hochdeutsch-Umgangdeutsch. Würzwörter vom Feinsten.
320p hardback, colourful cover without jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, light marks to ...
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Winnowed Wisdom.
xiv 264p grey cloth with dark lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, first edition
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College Days.
164p dark blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, second printing
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Over the Footlights and other Fancies.
279p blue cloth with black lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, first edition
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The Garden of Folly. A Picture of the World we Live in.
277p black cloth with faint green lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, first edition
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Short Circuits.
ix 336p orange cloth with black lettering to spine and front, a clean copy, small tear to spine, ...
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Literary Lapses.
248p red cloth with dark lettering to spine and front, paper yellowing, ninth printing, nice paper, ...
£12.00
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The Female Approach. With Masculine Sidelights. With a Letter by Max Beerbohm.
96p red boards, illustrated throughout, clean copy, second printing
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The Birthday Book of Wit and Humour.
small format, full calf, all edges gilt, to front: The Wit and Humour Birthday Book, on spine "Wit ...
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Giocando con l'Infinito - Matematica per Tutti.
viii 300p fresh and tight paperback, spine not creased, excellent, many illustrations
£18.00
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Gyascutus: Studies in Antebellum Southern Humorous and Sporting Writing.
234p paperback with yellow cover, fresh clean copy, no signs of use
£24.00
£56.00
Bilmece: A Corpus of Turkish Riddles.
vii 1063p large paperback, yellow card cover, very thick volume, text reproduced from typescript, a ...
£56.00
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A Herd of Yaks. The Best of Eric Nicol.
vi 201p hardback, bright orange cloth with black and white jacket, good condition, some wear to ...
£12.00
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Further Foolishness.
234p green cloth with light lettering to spine and front, colour frontispiece with tissueguard, ...
£24.00
£60.00
Bloodsucker.
25p stapled comic, name to inside cover in pen, b/w illustrations, very good condition
£60.00
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Images of "Omaha".
41p erotic comic, name in pen to inside cover, very good condition
£15.00
£36.00
Flesh. Issue 1.
32p stapled erotic comic, full page b/w illustrations, illustrated front and back covers, name on ...
£36.00
£26.00
Micsoda város! Karikatúrák a 125 éves Budapestrol. A Fovárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár Budapest Gyujteményének kiállítása.
xix 160p large format paperback, illustrated throughout, very good, uncommon title
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The Great Switcheroo (La Grande Entourloupe) and The Last Act (Le Dernier Acte).
199p paperback, bilingual edition, very good condition, light wear to cover edges, binding strong, ...
£12.00
£28.00
The Harvest of a Quiet Eye. A Selection of Scientific Quotations.
xii 192p hardback in brown cloth, illustrated jacket, first edition with personal inscription by ...
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Szinem - Java.
574p hardback, worn paper jacket present, ownership label to endpaper, text clean, first edition, ...
£30.00
£46.00
Cultural Correspondence Number 9: Sex Roles and Humor.
80p stapled A4 magazine, essays by Donna Harraway (Joys of Vacuuming), interviews with women comic ...
£46.00
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The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire.
178p hardback with fresh dustjacket, many illustrations, a tight and clean copy, new
£18.00
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The Limerick. 1700 Examples with Notes Variants and Index. The Famous Paris Edition. Complete and Unexpurgated.
517p hardback edition, binding strong, yellow cloth binding very firm, fresh green jacket, ...
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Cricket Crackers.
192p hardback in black cloth, light wear, some marks on boards and endpapers, sticker on title ...
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A New Miscellany-At-Law - yet another Diversion for Lawyers and others.
xiii 450p hardback, grey cloth with black dustjacket, minimal/no wear to surfaces and sides, spine ...
£18.00
£14.00
Flourishing. Letters 1928 - 1946.
xxxiii 755p hardback, black cloth, clipped dustjacket showing some light surface wear, pages and ...
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£28.00
Dies und das für euch zum Spass.
88p plain grey-blue cloth, bookplate, well preserved, some poems re-numbered in ink, a collection ...
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Cohen's Cornucopia.
112p hardback, price sticker on back cover, publisher's ink stamp on front endpaper, otherwise like ...
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Thurber Country.
255p paperback, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, very good condition, tight copy, ...
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The Mathematical Recreations of Lewis Carroll: Pillow Problems and a Tangled Tale.
xx 109p 152p paperback with illustrated cover, very little use, pages clean and unmarked with ...
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Simple Custom.
63p hardback, dustjacket in very good condition, illustrations bright and clean, text unmarked, ...
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Punch and the London Charivari. July to December 1901.
464p large format original cloth, gilt design to front, a tight and clean copy, illustrated ...
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£12.00
What's the Use?
64p slim hardback pink laminated boards, edges a little dusty, very good
£12.00
£12.00
La Comédie au XVIe Siècle (Extraits de Pièces)
127p slim paperback, decorative violet cover in very good condition, clean pages, firm binding, ...
£12.00
£6.00
L'Ecole des Femmes.
107p slim paperback, decorative violet cover in very good condition, clean pages, firm binding, ...
£6.00
£12.00
Ferhoodled English. Curious and Amusing Pennsylvania Dutch Talk.
23p stapled pamphlet, full colour illustrated card cover in very good condition, clean pages, a ...
£12.00
£38.00
The Memoirs of a Pussycat.
92p blue decrative paper cover showing the image of Charlie Chaplin greeting a cat, cover is in ...
£38.00
£12.00
Rumpole and the Angel of Death.
261p hardback with white illustrated dustjacket, excellent condition, first edition
£12.00
£18.00
The ABZ of Pornography.
163p paperback, cover in excellent condition, firm binding, clean pages, a well preserved copy, ...
£18.00
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Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities. With 15 Coloured Illustrations by Henry Alken.
vii 240p burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, colour plates, well preserved
£20.00
£300.00
The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax. The First Tour in Search of the Picturesque. The Second Tour in Search of Consolation; The Third Tour in Search of a Wife.
272p 277p 279p, three volumes in original green cloth, light soiling to cloth, colour plates by ...
£300.00
£18.00
The Dunny Door and Some More. A Celebration of Kiwi Loos, Longdrops and Little Houses.
110p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, in excellent condition, like new, a scarce ...
£18.00
£20.00
A New Dictionary of Art.
xiv 231p hardback, a new copy, still sealed in clear film, first edition
£20.00
£10.00
The Bridgeman Art Library. A to Z.
64p booklet, cover in very good condition, clean pages, a well preserved copy, scarce
£10.00
£46.00
Hood's Own, or Laughter from Year to Year. A New Edition.
viii 564p vi 563p two volumes in one very thick volume bound in very very bright green cloth with ...
£46.00
The Midnight Court. A Rythmical Bacchanalia from the Irish of Bryan Merryman.
61p hardback with bright pink priceclipped dustjacket with decorations by Hugh Stevenson, lovely ...
£24.00
£48.00
The Comic History of England.
xviii 304p original maroon cloth with gilt illustrations to front board and spine, all edges gilt, ...
£48.00
George Cruikshank's Table-Book.
284p original green blindstamped cloth with gilt decoration to front board and spine, minor damage ...
£180.00
£10.00
A Dustbin of Milligan.
125p black and white paperback, scarce special edition published for Oxfam, very light creasing to ...
£10.00
£68.00
Punch, or The London Charivari. Volumes 184 and 185 for 1933.
728p 728p plus Christmas Number, Almanack, thick and heavy volume, bright royal blue with gilt ...
£68.00
£68.00
Punch, or The London Charivari. Volumes 186 and 187 for 1934.
728p 728p plus Christmas Number, Almanack, thick and heavy volume, bright royal blue with gilt ...
£68.00
£120.00
Mess Stories by "Tim Daly" Esq, Edited by F E W. Reprinted from the Madras Times.
105p bright green cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine, small teat to spine hinge, yellow ...
£120.00
£8.00
The Best of Ou Are Awful!
24p landscape format booklet, illustrated pages, in excellent condition, 'Open University' based ...
£8.00
£120.00
Galgenlieder.
32p illustrated manuscript unsigned except for the clue "Hago Verlag" to title page, each poem with ...
£120.00
£15.00
Mother Goose in Hieroglyphics.
oblong format, illustrated throughout, hardback with dustjacket, fresh and clean copy of the ...
£15.00
£8.00
The Return of Hyman Kaplan.
172p paperback with pink design, first Penguin printing, a tight and fresh copy
£8.00
£6.00
Thurber Carnival.
286p original Penguin paperback, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, very good
£6.00
£14.00
Edward Lear Selected Letters.
xxxiii 325p hardback (blue cloth) with bright dustjacket, excellent copy, illustrations throughout, ...
£14.00
£14.00
Here's Your Medicine. Nursing for Novices.
vii 117p paperback, well preserved, many illustrations, first edition
£14.00
£12.00
Baboo Jabberjee, BA.
272p small hardback with colour frontispiece and many addtl plates, spine a little soft and worn, ...
£12.00
£16.00
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. With a Frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo.
xii 264p burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, colour frontispiece, 5th ...
£16.00
£10.00
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 ...
£10.00
£10.00
Punch Magazine, Coronation Number.
64p issue of Punch, full colour cover and advertisements, a well preserved copy
£10.00
£10.00
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
£10.00
£18.00
Perspectives of Irony in Medieval French Literature.
198p large format paperback, green lettering to front, excellent fresh copy without name or stamp, ...
£18.00
£32.00
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, ...
£32.00
£10.00
Max and Maurice.
56p hardback with red and white dustjacket, excellent condition, English language edition with the ...
£10.00
£32.00
Sketches: Young Couples, Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen. Illustrated by Phiz.
238p green cloth hardcover with gilt decor, engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard, additional ...
£32.00
£10.00
The Comic Theatre of Greece and Rome.
168p paperback, white cover, plates, light pencilled lines to a few margins, clean text, firm ...
£10.00
£44.00
Jonson Versus Bakhtin. Carnival and the Grotesque.
267p paperback, excellent condition, as new
£44.00
£36.00
Okker Gokker Gummi Klokker og Andre Bornerim.
approx 46p large format, card cover, colour illustrated by Ungermann, one small crease to front, ...
£36.00
£10.00
English Satire and the Satiric Tradition.
xiii 286p paperback, from a Cambridge College library, label to spine, clean pages, firm binding, a ...
£10.00
£46.00
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 ...
£46.00
£46.00
Progulka verkhom i drugie stikhi.
32p stapled booklet, blue card cover, colour illustrations throughout, very well preserved: ...
£46.00
£15.00
The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature.
viii 96p small format, green lettering to boards, old soiling to front, colour frontispiece and ...
£15.00
£46.00
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 ...
£46.00
£46.00
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 ...
£46.00
£46.00
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, ...
£46.00
£46.00
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, ...
£46.00
£46.00
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 ...
£46.00
£46.00
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 ...
£46.00
£46.00
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 ...
£46.00
£46.00
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 ...
£46.00
£46.00
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 ...
£46.00
£46.00
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 ...
£46.00
£26.00
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 ...
£26.00
£56.00
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 ...
£56.00
£68.00
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 ...
£68.00
£36.00
Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Volksrätsels.
152p bound in plain green cloth, excellent fresh copy, first edition, from the library of Wayland ...
£36.00
£64.00
Historia General de la Caricatura y la Ironia Plastica.
84p plus approx 100 pages of illustrations, large format paperback, dustjacket present, excellent ...
£64.00
£26.00
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
£26.00
£36.00
Historia de la Caricatura en Norte-America.
approx 180p very many illustrations throughout, a well preserved copy of a scarce title
£36.00
£6.00
Next to Oddliness.
162p yellow cloth, illustrations by Haro Hedson, clean pages, firm binding, cloth a bit soiled, ...
£6.00
£10.00
Bombay Duck.
316p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a bright copy, clean, firm binding, like new
£10.00
£10.00
Eighteenth Century Comedy.
xxvii 413p small format blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, clean pages, firm binding, attractive ...
£10.00
£16.00
Wanderings in Marylebone.
ix 98p grey paperback, frontispiece illustration, further illustrations throughout, foxing to page ...
£16.00
The Great Folk of Old Marylebone.
vi 79p blue cloth with white cloth spine, gilt lettering to front, frontispiece with tissue guard, ...
£8.00
£68.00
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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£36.00
Amos Intolerable. His Table-Talk.
112p hardback, illustrated dustjacket in good condition with only two small tears to the top edge, ...
£36.00
£8.00
Punch. January 11th 1939.
pp 30 - 56, A4 format journal with illustrated cover, advertisements to first and last pages, ...
£8.00
£8.00
Punch. May 10th 1939.
pp 510 - 536, A4 format journal with illustrated cover, advertisements to first and last pages, ...
£8.00
£6.00
Some Notes on Lifemanship.
126p hardback, orange dustjacket a bit worn, bookplate, illustrations by Frank Wilson, clean pages, ...
£6.00
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Court in the Act.
135p paperback, illustrated by Judy Brindley, a bright copy, signed by the author, in perfect ...
£8.00
Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Praise of Folly.
122p paperback, illustrated white and green cover, a clean and bright copy, in excellent condition
£10.00
£12.00
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 ...
£12.00
£8.00
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
£8.00
£14.00
The Faber Book of Comic Verse.
388p terracotta cloth fresh and pleasant to the touch, find paper, very good and clean copy, with ...
£14.00
£14.00
P. Terenti Comoediae.
237p plus 15p publisher's catalogue, small format, blindstamped burgundy cloth, pages are clean, a ...
£14.00
£26.00
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, ...
£26.00
£10.00
The Romany Rye.
xiv 392p green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, spine a bit pale ...
£10.00
£10.00
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, ...
£10.00
£14.00
A la Manière de nos divins Poètes.
189p paperback, very well preserved, clean copy, holding well
£14.00
£12.00
Mathematical Snack Bar: A Collection of Notes and Results.
v 155p cloth, dustjacket present but, well, dusty, well preserved copy, first edition
£12.00
£16.00
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, ...
£16.00
£12.00
Humor. (Yale French Studies 23)
104p large paperback, yellow cover with red face, all articles in English, very good
£12.00
£24.00
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 ...
£24.00
£10.00
A Wee Keek Intae The Past (History in Verse)
33p white paperback, photographic portrait of the author to front cover, excellent condition, as new
£10.00
£10.00
Tricky Tricks.
51p hardback, brightly coloured laminated boards as new, publisher's file copy markings to ...
£10.00
£46.00
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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£26.00
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 - ...
£26.00
£10.00
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings.
viii 334p large paperback, nice fresh copy, purple frame to cover, some illustrations
£10.00
£18.00
Euer Hochwohlgeboren, Exzellenz, sehr verehrter Herr Geheimrat: Briefe durch die Jahrhunderte.
93p tall format, stiff boards, fresh copy, as new
£18.00
£8.00
New Statesman Competitions.
117p first edition, yellow cloth darkened to spine and a little spotted to boards, pages very clean ...
£8.00
£16.00
On Nous Écrit de Gonfle-Boufigue.
250p cream paperback, illustrated cover rather darkened particularly to spine, top corner very ...
£16.00
£68.00
Pastil #4.
46p paperback graphic novel with black illustrated cover, first edition August 1999, excellent ...
£68.00
£68.00
Pastil #1.
46p paperback graphic novel with orange illustrated cover, first edition August 1998, excellent ...
£68.00
£24.00
Daddy is So Far Away…We Must Find Him!
66p purple paperback, graphic novel in excellent condition, as new, a "fascinating saga that draws ...
£24.00
£88.00
Saturday Songs.
vi 124p large format, two tone green cloth with floral design, top edge gilt, old library ...
£88.00
£46.00
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 ...
£46.00
£124.00
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 ...
£124.00
£10.00
North from Granada.
254p paperback in excellent condition, pages bright and fresh, as new
£10.00
£24.00
The Good Things of "Life". Sixth Series.
brown cloth with gilt illustrations to front, oblong format, initial 5 pages detached, rest well ...
£24.00
£12.00
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 ...
£12.00
£7.00
Varsity Rags and Hoaxes.
48p small light blue cover, contains various illustrations and historical photographs, pages clean, ...
£7.00
£30.00
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 ...
£30.00
£16.00
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 ...
£16.00
£10.00
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 ...
£10.00
£8.00
The Matrimonial Agent. A Farce in One Act.
stapled booklet, 12p of text, plus additional pages of publisher's adverts, staples rusty, still ...
£8.00
£8.00
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 ...
£8.00
£8.00
A Nice Quiet Morning. A Fearfully Funny Farce.
stapled booklet, 12p of text, plus additional pages of publisher's adverts, Holloway Pills advert ...
£8.00
£8.00
Selected Poems.
xxii 121p bright and crisp paperback from Carcanet, with the classic illustrations by Tenniel to go ...
£8.00
£86.00
A Bonfire of Weeds.
252p first edition, Beachcomber title, pink dustjacket lightly worn at edges with a few small ...
£86.00
£8.00
Yorkshire Ditties. First Series.
143p original blue cloth with gilt lettering and black décor, tight fresh copy, extensive ...
£8.00
£16.00
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 ...
£16.00
£24.00
Lenaus Trostfibel und Gelächterbuch. Enzyklopädie des Lachhaften.
212p tall format, yellow illustrated boards, well preserved copy, first edition
£24.00
£16.00
Select Fragments of the Greek Comic Poets.
xxii 203p original burgundy cloth, nice clean copy, from a Cambridge college library, "annexe ...
£16.00
£10.00
Alle Galgenlieder. (Galgenlieder, Palmström / Palma Kunkel, Gingganz)
333p tan cloth clean and tight excellent copy, printed in sans serif font
£10.00
£8.00
The New Harold Wilson Bunkside Book.
approx 80p illustrated throughout, red boards, oblong format, minor library marking, spine a bit ...
£8.00
£20.00
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, ...
£20.00
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Down Another Track.
174p first edition hardcover, white illustrated dustjacket with tear to top corner otherwise good, ...
£18.00
£12.00
Three Ring Mad.
192p illustrated period paperback, tiger face to front cover, excellent condition
£12.00
£24.00
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, ...
£24.00
£10.00
The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll.
1066p large format paperback, very good, with illustrations by Tenniel
£10.00
£26.00
Pipes and Tabors. A Book of Light Verse.
x 132p hardback with bright pink dustjacket (this dustjacket displays on the inside the details of ...
£26.00
£64.00
Chastushki v zapisiakh sovetskogo vremeni.
495p tan cloth with red lettering, title page printed red and black, includes musical notation, ...
£64.00
£12.00
Cause of Wear in Sheeps' Teeth.
3p offprint (single sheet folded) from Nature, Author's Compliments stamp, nice fresh copy: Argues ...
£12.00
£14.00
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 ...
£14.00
£12.00
The Lure of the Limerick. An Uninhibited History.
146p red boards (slighty worn/soiled), pages clean, with illustrations, still a good copy
£12.00
£8.00
Satire.
255p white paperback with illustrated cover, pages very clean with plates, binding tight, fresh copy
£8.00
£36.00
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
£36.00
£220.00
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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£4.00
Die ängstliche Nacht. Bildergeschichten, Prosa und Gedichte.
72p paperback, a little aged,
£4.00
£98.00
Russkaia karikatura 40-50-kh gg. XIX v. (RUSSIAN)
146p red cloth binding, small quarto format, very well preserved
£98.00
£16.00
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 ...
£16.00
£16.00
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, ...
£16.00
£12.00
Prof. E McSquared's Original, Fantastic and Highly Edifying Calculus Primer.
111p beige large format paperback, ex library introduction to Calculus amusingly illustrated ...
£12.00
£16.00
Il Tre. Operetta Dilettevole. Ed. Charles Speroni.
approx 36p orange card cover, editor inscription, very good
£16.00
£32.00
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 ...
£32.00
£12.00
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 ...
£12.00
£30.00
Nastennyi Kalendar. Russian Language.
365p metal clasp, some pages detached, but all present, pages clean, browned
£30.00
£10.00
More Minor Horrors. Illustrated.
163p brown paperback, this copy from a Cambridge college library with tape to spine and front ...
£10.00
£16.00
The Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Dent's Double Volumes.
362p hardback, terracotta cloth with peach jacket, light wear to boards, endpapers foxed, ...
£16.00
£14.00
Das Lächerliche in der französischen Literatur des Ancien Régime.
30p offprint, faint pencil note "tanti saluti F S", nice clean copy
£14.00
£10.00
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
£10.00
£12.00
Das lachende Deutschland.
304 hardback with yellow charicature head to front board, edges and corners a little rubbed, first ...
£12.00
£12.00
North from Granada.
254p hardcover with dustjacket in excellent condition, pages bright and fresh, as new
£12.00
£340.00
Puzzles Old and New.
xx 394p brown cloth with black and gilt illustrated boards, spine bright, first edition by ...
£340.00
£76.00
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 ...
£76.00
£16.00
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
£16.00
£24.00
I "Fabliaux" di Chaucer: Tradizione e innovazione nella narrativa comica chauceriana.
246p large paperback, brown cover, fresh clean copy, as new, uncommon title
£24.00
£8.00
Das Ironische und die Ironie in den Werken Thomas Manns.
230p black paperback, spine a little rubbed, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good condition
£8.00
£9.00
Galgenlieder: Dem Kind im Manne.
ca 30p small paperback, pages unmarked with b&w plates, binding firm, very good
£9.00
£6.00
Die Kirmes und andere Bildergeschichten.
70p small beige hardback with transparent jacket, pages unmarked with the Wilhelm Busch ...
£6.00
£8.00
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, ...
£8.00
£4.00
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
£4.00
£6.00
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
£6.00
£8.00
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 ...
£8.00
£8.00
Comic Poems.
384p small format, marbled boards with red cloth spine, title label bright, edges and corners ...
£8.00
£12.00
Dat Leed von se Herr Pastor sien Koh.
58p slim paperback with white illustrated cover, yellowing, very good
£12.00
£22.00
Humor and Social Change in Twentieth-Century America.
132p large format, grey card cover paperback, minor library markings, very good
£22.00
£24.00
The Grant Swinger Papers. In Collaboration with Center for the Absorption of Federal Funds.
32p stapled pamphlet, excellent condition: swinging from Grant to Grant. . .
£24.00
£24.00
Punch. Volume 8.
ic 270p, some unpaginated pages (title pages? rectos only) included, rebound in strong plain green ...
£24.00
£18.00
Punch. Volume 37. July - December 1859.
266p large dark water-silk cloth, well preserved copy, very good, includes index
£18.00
£12.00
Humour among the Clergy. First Edition.
157p navy cloth, rubbed corners, paper browned, otherwise in very good condition
£12.00
£10.00
Yourself and Your Body.
317p red cloth, boards a little stained, pages unmarked, with many illustrations, binding firm, ...
£10.00
£24.00
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 ...
£24.00
£10.00
Zeitzünder im Eintopf: Antifaschistische Satire 1935-1945.
xli 155p red boards, very good
£10.00
£12.00
Modern German Humour: 20 Stories.
181p black paperback, from a college library, spine a little rubbed, a clean and firm copy, very ...
£12.00
£26.00
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
£26.00
£24.00
The Hohenzollerns through German Eyes.
32p stapled card cover A4 format, collection of b&w caricatures with German and English text, ...
£24.00
£10.00
Magic for Every Occasion. First Edition.
117p cloth with blue jacket, illustrated cover, near fine condition
£10.00
£8.00
Humorous Books for Children. Chosen by Lance Salway. 1978.
51p red paperback, from a Cambridge college library, very good condition, b/w illustrations
£8.00
£12.00
Schwänke des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts.
xxxiv 296p blue cloth with fresh gilt lettering to cover and spine, foxing to edges and some pages, ...
£12.00
£8.00
Private Views: New Pocket Cartoons. First Edition.
64p small format cloth with cream dustjacket, brown coloured pencil mark to front endpaper, ...
£8.00
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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, ...
£10.00
£18.00
A Diary of the Gladstone Government.
28p red oblong paperback stapled, chipped jacket, pages unmarked with many b/w illustrations, very ...
£18.00
£8.00
As You Were, Bill.
154p cloth with grey dustjacket, boards slightly soiled, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w ...
£8.00
£7.00
Picture Jokes for Kids.
200p blue paperback, minor shelfwear, spine slightly creased, pages clean and unmarked, yellowing ...
£7.00
£10.00
Cartoon Companion to Classical Mythology.
unpaginated hardback with blue dustjacket, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w ...
£10.00
£6.00
More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions.
188p period paperback, illustrations, very good
£6.00
£16.00
Five Elizabethan Comedies.
xvii 308p small format hardback, good condition, navy cloth with beige jacket, some light wear to ...
£16.00
£18.00
Importance of Being Witty.
396p cloth with green/white jacket, minor shelfwear to jacket, near fine condition, very good
£18.00
£36.00
Race Riots. Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction.
309p hardback, with black dustjacket, fine condition, as new, index
£36.00
£64.00
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, ...
£64.00
£12.00
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
£12.00
£14.00
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 ...
£14.00
£10.00
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 ...
£10.00
£24.00
Behind the Beyond.
197p red hardback with dark lettering on spine and cover, colour frontisp and plates, a well ...
£24.00
£7.00
Last Essays of Elia.
219p dull green cloth, gilt to spine, frontispiece, superb condition
£7.00
£12.00
The Aunt Maria Sketches.
20p blue booklet, stapled, slight foxing, rare title: Aunt Maria goes to the Zoo, Aunt Maria goes ...
£12.00
£12.00
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
£12.00
£14.00
Humour of Parliament and Parliamentary Elections.
158p blue hardback, paper brown and stiff but clean, first edition, good condition, 'Garbled ...
£14.00
£12.00
High Hats and Sly-Boots.
61p with b/w dustjacket, illustrations, clean copy, first edition, very good
£12.00
£20.00
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
£20.00
£12.00
Erzählungen und Schwänke.
358p bound in plain blue cloth with spine tearing, a nice clean copy
£12.00
£12.00
Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities.
xiii 254p green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, pages are bright ...
£12.00
£6.00
Happy Families. Life and Laughter in the Family, as Seen by Children.
hardback, very good, nice clean copy
£6.00
£6.00
Talent, Wonder and Delight. A Scrapbook of Victorian Entertainment.
88p paperback, very good with shelfmark
£6.00
£10.00
The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire.
Excerpts from Rabelais, Shakespeare, Fenelon, Swift, Pope, Maria Edgeworth, Dickens, Gogol, etc
£10.00
The Appalling Guests, Social Stereotypes from the Telegraph Magazine.
96p hardback with white illustrated jacket, little use, pages clean with illustrations throughout, ...
£5.00
£8.00
Who Put the Wit in Switzerland?
94p yellow paperback with illustrated laminated cover, as new
£8.00
£9.00
In Praise of Humour. An Anthology of Enjoyment.
64p small cerise hardback with happy and sad face patterned paper boards, first edition, pages ...
£9.00
£20.00
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 ...
£20.00
£36.00
Illustrating Asia. Comics, Humour, Magazines and Picture books.
249p hardback with green pictorial laminated jacket, as new, pages clean with plates, references ...
£36.00
£8.00
Je Vous Salue Mesdames!
216p white paperback with pictorial laminated cover, slight creasing to spine but pages clean with ...
£8.00
£8.00
The Social Survival Handbook. Illustrated by Simon Torrance.
142p white paperback with illustrated panel and laminated cover, landscape format, pages clean with ...
£8.00
£12.00
The Cena Trimalchionis together with Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and a Selection of Pompeian Inscriptions. Edited by W B Sedgwick.
146p burgundy cloth with black lettering and decoration to cover, spine a little soft, ...
£12.00
£6.00
Hu is Hu? Wer ist [denn schon] wer? Konrads politische Erben.
96p (no pagination) paperback, illustrations, bright orange cover, neat and clean copy with ...
£6.00
£12.00
The Portable Swift. The Greatest Satirist in Our Language Here Richly Represented By the Best of His Essays, Poems, Letters, Journals and Complete Gulliver's Travels.
601p paperback with green and brown illustrated cover, very good condition, firm binding, a few ...
£12.00
£16.00
A Tale of a Tub and Other Satires.
325p hardback, blue cloth with blue jacket, very good condition, light wear and some sunning to ...
£16.00
£6.00
The Intelliegent Teacher's Guide to Preferment. Illustrated by Biro. First Edition.
96p primrose cloth with red lettering to spine, jacket a little worn and dust marked but undamaged, ...
£6.00
£8.00
Oxford: Oddfellows and Funny Tales.
49p stapled paperback with pictorial card cover, pages clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout, ...
£8.00
Flashers. A selection of bad taste cartoons from the Silvey-Jex Partnership.
33p paperback, cartoon book, inscription otherwise very good
£4.00
£5.00
Herr Ober! Das vollständige Drehbuch mit vielen Fotos.
138p paperback, fresh copy, many illustrations
£5.00
£8.00
Le Rire: Essai sur la Signification du Comique.
viii 157p red paperback, fresh and clean
£8.00
£8.00
What me, Sir? Episodes in the Life of a Young Teacher fresh from College.
95p paperback, illustrations, very good
£8.00
£6.00
The Star-Spangled Jack. Punch, 24 Sept 1969.
ix pp 477 - 520 stapled paperback A4 format, illustrations, ads, very good
£6.00
£24.00
In Cap and Gown: Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit.
xxix 354p burgundy cloth w/ gilt lettering, index, publisher's catalogue at back, pages clean and ...
£24.00
£10.00
Pardon the Inconvenience.
46p paperback, collection of humorous stories and drawings about bathrooms, a clean and fresh copy
£10.00
£8.00
Fritz, No 1, Jg 1, Berlin 1985.
xl 228p small paperback, illustrations, various contributors, advertisements, inner hinges yielding ...
£8.00
£8.00
Art ain't all Paint.
84p large blue cloth, lettering to spine, illustrations, collection of limerick-like poems, index, ...
£8.00
£10.00
Around the World Backwards and Sideways. With Drawings by Gluyas Williams.
ix 241p hardback, dustjacket with illustration, first edition, illustrations, nice and clean pages, ...
£10.00
Aphorismen. Zeichnungen von Fritz Fischer.
62p card cover with illustration to front, illustrations, hardly used, very good, Zweite Auflage.
£8.00
£6.00
Coping with America. A Beginner's Guide to the USA.
xi 144p paperback, cartoon illustrations, index, very good
£6.00
£8.00
Das Mondschaf. Eine Auswahl aus den Galgenliedern./ The Moon Sheep. Authorized English Version by A E Eitzen.
95p hardback, collection of poems in German and English, very good
£8.00
£12.00
Der Alybaaba baaseldytsch. Fääderezaichnige vo der Therèse Robert.
72p bright red hardback, illustrations, hardly used, a fresh and clean copy
£12.00
£8.00
Das letzte Ende: Gibt es ein Leben nach der Wiedervereinigung?
95p large paperback, illustrations, frontispiece, hardly used, a fresh and clean copy, as new
£8.00
£7.00
König Bogumil König. Ein heiterer Roman.
237p cloth, a fresh and nice copy with dustjacket
£7.00
£8.00
Alle Galgenlieder: Galgenlieder, Palmström, Palma Kunkel, Gingganz.
327p yellow square cloth, illustrations, nice fresh copy, 21-40 Tausend
£8.00
£10.00
Taken for a Ride: One Woman's View of Working on the Buses. Drawings by Christopher Madden.
30p stapled booklet, illustrations, very good
£10.00
£28.00
Münchhausen. Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe. Zweiter Theil.
iv 189p original paper covered boards (a little dusty but firm), contains Acta ...
£28.00
£6.00
Satire.
84p green and white paperback, a few faint ink markings to margin, very well preserved
£6.00
£8.00
Skool Graffiti. Illustrations by John Miller.
approx 30p paperback, illustrations, very good
£8.00
£18.00
Münchhausen: Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe, vierter Theil.
v 168p small green cloth, cover a little dirty, foxing, firm binding, still very well preserved copy
£18.00
£9.00
The Insider's Guide to Parliament.
144p large square paperback, illustrations, hardly used, very good
£9.00
£8.00
Blasius Spritzfährtli: Genf - Hamburg - Schwarzwald - Basel. Mit Zeichnungen vom jungen Blasius. Zweite Auflage.
84p cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, very good
£8.00
£5.00
The Ted Heath Bunkside Book.
approx 25p small format square hardback, photographic plates, very good
£5.00
£5.00
The Prince Charles Heirside Book.
approx 25p small format square hardback, photographic plates, very good
£5.00
£18.00
A Little More Nonsense.
90p marbled boards, paper title labels to spine & cover, limericks with old woodcut illustrations, ...
£18.00
£16.00
Less Eminent Victorians.
approx 60p of limericks with illustrations, cloth, A4 format, first edition, very good
£16.00
£18.00
Le Romant Comique. 2 Volumes. Texte établi et présenté par Henri Bénac.
complete in 2 volumes 263p 326p library re-bound in attractive brown cloth, leather title labels to ...
£18.00
£24.00
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy.
vi 217p blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine and front, a fresh clean copy, first edition, ...
£24.00
£4.00
Extraordinary Inventions: Bizzare Ideas that never got off the Ground.
48p stapled booklet, outrageous inventions from early 'flying machines' and single-wheeled ...
£4.00
£9.00
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature, Vol 1.
viii 287p cloth with gilt on cover and spine, back hinge tearings, top edge gilt, includes W ...
£9.00
£6.00
Alma Mater. A Profound Study of a Great University.
152p hardback with dustjacket, comic history of Cambridge, illustrations by Edgar Northfield
£6.00
£6.00
Dew Yew Keep a'Troshin! Old Barney's Broadcasts. Volume 1. Edited by Keith Skipper, Illustrated by Chad.
75p paperback, illustrations, very good
£6.00
£9.00
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, ...
£9.00
£24.00
Les Jeux de l'Allusion Littéraire dans Un Beau Ténébreux de Julien Gracq.
198p yellow paperback, bibliography, very good
£24.00
£5.00
Witz, Lyrik, Sprache: Beiträge zur Literatur- und Sprachtheorie mit einem Anhang über den Fortschritt der Wissenschaft.
253p cloth, dustjacket, index, notes, tables, very good
£5.00
£9.00
Die fromme Helene und andere Bildergeschichten.
162p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, includes: Das gestörte Rendezvous; ...
£9.00
£9.00
Abenteuer eines Junggesellen und andere Bildergeschichten.
163p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, includes stories: Aus den ...
£9.00
£8.00
Balduin Bählamm und andere Bildergeschichten.
159p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, stories include: Die kühne ...
£8.00
£5.00
Deutschland deine Westfalen: In Gottes eigenem Pumpernickelland.
194p square cloth, dustjacket, illustrations by Beate Rebhuhn, ink writing to back board, otherwise ...
£5.00
£8.00
Komischer Volkskalender für 1847. Faksimiledruck der Originalausgabe.
vii 122p small hardback, 17cm, ink markings on several pages, many illustrations, postscript by ...
£8.00
£7.00
Deutsch - Deutsch: Ein satirisches Wörterbuch.
103p small hardback, boxed, nice cover, as new
£7.00
£7.00
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 ...
£7.00
Freibeuter 27: Thema: Fröhliche Wissenschaft.
157p large paperback, texts by Erich Fried, François Furet, Ingeborg Bachmann, Rudolf Virchow, Otto ...
£4.00
£16.00
The World of Wit and Humour.
xv 480p large format, quarter blue leather, red & gilt title panel to spine, compendium of jokes ...
£16.00
£18.00
Pictures from "Punch". Vol 1.
large format, red cloth fresh, medallion with Punch kicking The World, first volume only, an ...
£18.00
£8.00
A Curious Catalogue.
a postcard (unused) which shows a picture of Dickens' birthplace in Portsmouth and prints a text ...
£8.00
£6.00
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Bog Graffiti.
[96]p paperback, illustrations, cover edges beginning to wear
£6.00
£12.00
Die Karikatur als Quelle der Publikumsforschung.
40p+38p plates, wrappers, 86 repro plates, very good
£12.00
£4.00
Thurber Country.
255p paperback, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, cover a little creased, otherwise ...
£4.00
£9.00
Scot Free: A Book of Gael Warnings.
vii 168p cloth, index, inscription to title page, very good
£9.00
£10.00
The Comic Tradition in America: An Anthology.
xvi 464p burgundy cloth, dustjacket (soiled), extracts from writings of Benjamin Franklin, ...
£10.00
£8.00
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 ...
£8.00
£5.00
Family Reunion.
xiii 146p cloth, dustjacket (light spotting and damage to edges), very good
£5.00
£16.00
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 ...
£16.00
£8.00
Drayneflete Revealed. 1st ed.
x 70p cloth, dustjacket (fragmentary and decayed), illustrations by the author, very good
£8.00
£10.00
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 ...
£10.00
£12.00
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 ...
£12.00
£24.00
The Letters of Emma. 1st Edition.
128p cloth, dustjacket (embossed paper, a little worn), inscription by 'Emma' to front endpaper, ...
£24.00
£5.00
Der Postsekretär im Himmel und andere Geschichten.
179p red cloth 15cm, spine hurt, binding soft, worn, tired
£5.00
£8.00
Selected Cautionary Verses.
181p orange period paperback, illustrations Bentley, very good
£8.00
£4.00
Galgenlieder, neben dem Gingganz. 60 Illus von Paul Erni.
88p cloth, old tape maks on spine, clean and firm copy
£4.00
£12.00
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, ...
£12.00
£36.00
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 ...
£36.00
£6.00
This Merrie English. First Slips in Literature.
96p hardback with dustjacket, illustrations (Sillince), very good
£6.00
£8.00
The Book of Humorous Poetry.
xvi 464p buckram cloth, top edge gilt, firm copy, very good, a nice copy
£8.00
£8.00
Four English Humourists of the 19th Century.
xxiii 192p cloth, index, fresh and clean. Lectures on Dickens (Democrat), Eliot (Poet), Thackeray ...
£8.00
£12.00
The Bab Ballads, with Illustrations by the Author.
xii 190p burgundy cloth, spine with bright gilt lettering, nice very copy
£12.00
£28.00
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
£28.00
£8.00
Taking Off. An Anthology of Parodies, Send-Ups and Imitations.
259p hardback with dustjacket, very good
£8.00
£8.00
The Oxford Guide to Word Games.
240p hardback, dustjacket, index, bibliography, very good: Riddles, Puns, Crosswords, Scrabble and ...
£8.00
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 ...
£18.00
£8.00
Furia Infernalis Linn.
3p offprint, plain green card cover, very good: "parasites fabuleux"
£8.00
£24.00
20 Years Less 8%.
approx 60p, red boards, edges a little rubbed, mostly illustrations, by the first man who dedicated ...
£24.00
£16.00
99 Limericks mit dem nötigsten Kommentar für Nicht-Engländer.
79p little hardback, laminated cover with green marbled design and smiling cartoon lion, English ...
£16.00
£14.00
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
£14.00
£10.00
24 Recitationettes. Being Tales Told in Verse.
20p booklet, stapled, slightly creased, dirty and foxed, but a rare curious item
£10.00
£15.00
1000 Worte Deutsch: Ein Sprachführer für Nachdenkliche.
10 separately bound booklets in folder, boxed, together approx 300p, illustrations, index, very good
£15.00