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Humour
350 books in list (last updated 22 July 2009)
Stockhausen, H G [Ed]: Lothar Meggendorfer's Humoristische Blätter. Stuttgart: Esslinger 1989. 72p A4 red-yellow hardback, 2cm of foot of spine missing, corners sl bumped,pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many colour plates, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, 2 cm des Buchrückens fehlen, Seiten sauber und unmarkiert, viele farbige Abbildungen PKM 119527 £9
Punch : Punch or the London Charivari. 1847. Volume 12. London: Punch 1847. 274p large brown cloth, worn copy, spine cracked and missing a 4cm bit towards the top, rubbed near the extremities, binding weak with some pages lose, acceptable condition PKM 119450 £20
Horrabin, J F : The Japhet & Happy Annual. Pictures & Stories. London: News Chronicle 1950?. 64p blue illustrative card boards, undated, spine missing, creased and soiled cover, colour illustrations, good condition PKM 119440 £19
Kästner, Erich : Heiterkeit in Dur und Moll: Deutsche Humor gesammelt von Erich Kästner. Band 1: Von Wilhelm Busch bis Bertold Brecht, mit 29 Karikaturen. Band 2: Von Christian Morgenstern bis Hermann Hesse, mit 52 Karikaturen. Frankfurt: Ullstein 1974-1976. 212p 206p yellow paperback, set of 2 vols, ex library with label on spine, barcode and lending form on ffep, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, Bibliotheksexemplar mit Marke auf Buchrücken, Strichcode und Ausleihformular auf Vorsatzpapier, Seiten sauber und ohne Einträge PKM 119387 £8
Wiener, Ralph : Als das Lachen tödlich war: Erinnerungen und Fakten 1933-1945. Rudolstadt: Greifen 1989. 255p cloth with white dustjacket, dj sl bumped on edges, ex library with label on spine and barcode and lending form on ffep, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, Bibliotheksexemplar mit markiertem Buchrücken und Strichcode und Ausleihformular auf Schmutztitel, Seiten sauber und unmarkiert PKM 119282 £12
Greuner, Ruth : Zeitzünder im Eintopf: Antifaschistische Satire 1935-1945. Berlin: Der Morgen 1975. 350p cloth with black dustjacket, ex library with label on spine and barcode + lending form on ffep, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, Bibliotheksexemplar in sehr gutem Zustand mit geringen Lagerspuren, Seiten sauber PKM 118907 £10
Garrett, T J : Modern German Humour: 20 Stories. London: Longman 1969. 181p black paperback, ex library, minor shelfwear, spine slightly worn, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, Bibliotheksexemplar in sehr gutem Zustand mit leichten Lagerspuren, Seiten sauber und unmarkiert PKM 118790 £15
Punch : Pictures from Punch. Volumes 1 - 6. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co 1896. approx 237p each volume, 4to green cloth with red, black, grey and gilt illustration on front boards, gilt edges, each volume has a photograph portrait with printed signature of Punch Illustrators: John Tenniel; Charles Keene, Edward Linley Sambourne; George du Maurier; John Leech; Francis Burnand, Vol 1 has first four pages detached, some rubbing to extremities on all 6 volumes, overall Good + PKM 118570 £95
Strassner, Erich : Schwank. 2., überarbeitete und ergänzte Auflage. Stuttgart: Metzler 1978. (Sammlung Metzler: Realien zur Literatur) 123p white paperback, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Seiten unmarkiert PKM 118008 £15
Freund, Windfried : Die literarische Parodie. Stuttgart: Metzler 1981. (Sammlung Metzler: Realien zur Literatur) 133p white paperback, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Seiten unmarkiert PKM 117995 £17
Busch, Wilhelm : Der Fuchs. Die Drachen. Zwei lustige Sachen. München: Bassermann 1938. 38p hardback with cream dustjacket, small tear on dj and spine, minor shelfwear, previous owner's siganture on ffep, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, VG, schönes Exemplar mit vielen sw Zeichnungen, Seiten einwandfrei, Schutzumschlag etwas eingerissen PKM 117776 £30
Reimann, Hans : Vergnügliches Handbuch der deutschen Sprache. Berlin: Kiepenheuer 1932. 429p sm cloth, covers dusty and a little spotty, pages clean, firm binding, previous owner's signature' Cairo 1947' on title page, VG PKM 114968 £12
: The Hohenzollerns through German Eyes. London: Hutchinson 1917. 32p stapled card covers A4 format, collection of b&w caricatures with German and English text, slightly dusty copy, pp 14 - 18 detached but complete, binding losening, 9p newspaper article ' Tales of Three Nations, nine cartoons by Max Beerbohm' from the Manchester Guardian Weekly, 1st June 1923, laid in, pages clean, VG PKM 114967 £35
Lacey, Mike : Whizzer and Chips Annual 1978. London: IPC Magazines 1977. 143p yellow/blue illustrative hardback, corners bumped, near fine condition, colour illustrations PKM 114673 £14
(No Author) : Punch or the London Charivari, June 29, 1910. Volume 138. London: Office of the Punch 1910. 486p dark purple cloth boards with black leather spine, gilt lettering, worn boards, spine half missing, corners rubbed, hinges cracked, many b/w illustrations, unmarked, good condition PKM 114119 £20
Leuniq, Michael : Bag of Roosters. London: Angus 1984. 198p blue paperback, some ink underlining to pages, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, cover creased and rubbed, corners bumped, index, very good condition PKM 114089 £5
Reed, Graham : Magic for Every Occasion. First Edition. London: Ward 1978. 117p cloth with blue jacket, illustrated cover, near fine condition PKM 113801 £10
Chambers, Nancy [Ed]: Humorous Books for Children. Chosen by Lance Salway. 1978. Stroud: Thimble Press 1978. 51p red paperback, ex library, very good condition, b/w illustrations PKM 113575 £24
Witt, Hubert [Ed]; Oswald von Wolkenstein : Um dieser Welten Lust: Leib- und Lebenslieder des Oswald von Wolkenstein. Aus dem Altdeutschen übertragen und herausgegeben von H Witt, mit Zeichnungen von Heinz Zander und einem Musikteil von Tilo Müller-Medek. Leipzig: Insel 1968. 267p large cloth, boxed, b&w illustrations, musical scores, page ribbon, clean pages, hardly used, VG PKM 112969 £14
Eliot, T S : Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Seventh Impression. London: Faber 1953. 51p cloth with white jacket, chipped spine, slightly soiled jacket, signature to plate to back of board, pages unmarked with many colour full page illustrations, very good condition PKM 112848 £11
Peele, Cecily : Encyclopaedia of British Bogies. Oxford: Holdan 1977. 56p blue paperback, minor shelfwear to cover, otherwise near fine condition PKM 112833 £6
Wharton, Michael : Far Away is Close At Hand. Cornwall: Telegraph 1995. 272p green paperback, near fine with b/w illustrations, minor signs of usage PKM 112830 £9
Goedeke, Karl [Ed]: Schwänke des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1879. (Deutsche Dichter des 16. Jahrhunderts) xxxiv 296p blue cloth with fresh gilt lettering on cover and spine, corners sl rubbed, foxing on edges and some pages, otherwise pages clean, clear printing, binding firm, VG PKM 112829 £16
PONT : Most of Us are Absurd. London: Collins 1946. 96p cloth with white pictorial jacket, slightly soiled and rubbed jacket, signature plate to back of board, otherwise near fine condition, b/w illustrations throughout PKM 112828 £18
Hedayat, Sadegh : La Legende de la Creation. Satire pour Marionettes in 3 actes. First Edition. Paris: Maisonneuve 1946. slim booklet with white cover, printed in Arab writing with French title to back, this is number 88 of an edition of only 90 copies printed on Velin des Vosges, stapled, slight soiling, sl worn, uncommon early piece PKM 112652 £46
Simmonds, Posy : True Love. London: Cape 1981. Unpaginated blue hardback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many colour illustrations, article on the book laid in, as new PKM 112579 £20
Burgess, Robert : We Joined the Navy: Traditions, Customs, and Nomenclature of the Royal Navy. London: Black 1943. 124p grey cloth, spine slightly sunned, ink inscription to half title page, war time economy standard paper, binding firm, coloured pencil used to make lists of nicknames on rear endpapers, otherwise good condition PKM 112436 £12
Wyndham Lewis, D B ; Lee, Charles ; Beerbohm, Max [Illustr]: The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. London: Dent 1948. 264p cloth with brown dustjacket, slight shelfwear mainly to dustjacket, inner dustjacket flaps creased, some pages dog-eared, binding firm, name sticker on inner front board, 8 b&w illustrations, index, otherwise Good PKM 112410 £12
Lancaster, Osbert : Private Views: New Pocket Cartoons. First Edition. London: Gryphon 1956. 64p small format cloth with cream dustjacket, brown coloured pencil mark on front endpaper, shelfwear, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, VG+ PKM 112395 £10
Reed, Langford ; Bateman, H M [Illustr]: The Complete Limerick book: The Origin History, and Achievements of the Limerick with over 300 Examples Many of which are Entirely New. London: Jarrold 1932. 124p yellow paperback, shelfwear, browning to page edges, paper cover detached although book block remains bound, many b&w illustrations, index, good condition PKM 112387 £10
Anonymous : A Diary of the Gladstone Government. Edinburgh: Blackwood 1886. 28p red paperback, chipped jacket, pages unmarked with many b/w illustrations, very good condition PKM 112314 £18
Fougasse : The Luck of the Draw. London: Methuen 1939. 137p blue cloth, corners slightly bumped, minor stain to boards, spine slightly sunned, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w illustrations, slightly chipped jacket, very good condition PKM 112068 £6
Streeter, Edward : As You Were, Bill. London: Pearson 1920. 154p cloth with grey dustjacket, boards slightly soiled, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w illustrations, minor shelfwear to jacket, very good condition PKM 112025 £11
(No Author) : Picture Jokes for Kids. London: Lock 1986. 200p blue paperback, minor shelfwear, spine slightly creased, pages clean and unmarked, yellowing to edges, many b&w illustrations, very good condition PKM 111944 £7
Moreland, Arthur : Humours of History: 160 Drawings. Revised Edition. London: Daily News 1920?. 200p grey paperback, corners slightly rubbed, pages clean and unmarked, yellowing to edges, many b&w illustrations, very good condition PKM 111773 £10
Giles : Giles Sunday Express Cartoons. Third Series. Collectors' Limited Edition Facsimile. Exeter: Pedigree 1996. unpaginated yellow paperback in slipcase, facsimile of original 1948 edition, slight tear in slip cover, many b&w illustrations, VG condition PKM 111685 £16
Morgenstern, Christian : Das Mondschaf: Eine Auswahl aus den Galgenliedern/ The Moon Sheep: Authorized English version by A E W Eitzen. Wiesbaden: Insel 1953. (Insel-Bücherei) 63p original sm blue patterned hardback, nice and clean pages, poems in English and German, VG PKM 111662 £12
Herbert, A P : Wisdom for the Wise. Being 'Tinker, Tailor …' and 'The Wherefore and the Why'. First Edition. London: Methuen 1930. 100p navy cloth with gilt lettering, corners slightly bumped, spine slightly rubbed, signature to front endpaper, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, very good condition PKM 111661 £7
Fougasse : The Changing Face of Britain. London: Methuen 1940. 139p cloth with dustjacket, oblong format, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, b&w cartoon illustrations throughout, dj a little torn, VG PKM 111037 £14
Jog, N G : Judge or Judas? Bombay: Thacker 1945. 284p, blue cloth, sunned spine and edges of boards, discrete bookplate on inner front board, binding very good, pages clan and unmarked, VG PKM 110748 £15
(No Author) : Importance of Being Witty. Moscow: Raduga 1986. 396p cloth with green/white jacket, minor shelfwear to jacket, near fine condition, unmarked, PKM 110333 £22
Carroll, Lewis ; Holiday, Henry [Illustr]: The Hunting of the Snark. With 9 Illustrations by Henry Holiday. First Edition. London: Macmillan 1876. 83p grey cloth illustrated boards, corners slightly dented, minor shelfwear to top/bottom of spine, pages clean and unmarked, with illustrations, near fine condition PKM 109548 £160
Wodehouse, P G : The Luck of the Bodkins. London: Herbert 1935. 312p cloth with white/blue jacket, slightly creased cover, pages clean and unmarked, very good condition PKM 109046 £14
Frost, Arthur : Stuff and Nonsense. London: Nimmo 1888?. 95p red/grey hardback, worn boards, pages clean and unmarked, illustrations throughout, very good condition PKM 108673 £28
Ross, Michael : Race Riots. Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2005. 309p hardback, with black dj, fine condition, as new, index PKM 106215 £36
Rey-Flaud, Bernadette : La Farce ou la Machine a Rire. Théorie dun genre dramatique 1450 - 1550. Genève: Droz 1984. (Publications Romanes et Françaises) large paperback with grey cover, protective film fitted, ex lib copy, excellent unujsed condition PKM 106116 £56
Mahaffey, Vicki : Modernist Literature. Changing Fictions. Oxford: Blackwell 2006. 242p black paperback, as new, bibliography, index PKM 106022 £16
Anstey, F : Vice Versa. London: Murray 1937. (Murrays Novels) 302p sm hardback with a lovely dj in excellent condition, showing Thick & Thin in confrontation, book near fine, authentic price alteration sticker on spine PKM 105765 £8
Nicolson, Harold : The English Sense of Humour and Other Essays. London: Constable 1956. 208p navy hardback, no dj, clean, stiff cover, internally some ex lib stamps, otherwise clean, unmarked, some light foxing to page ends PKM 105577 £8
Sellar, W C ; Yeatman, R J : 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. Illus J Reynolds. London: Penguin 1960. xii 115p humble orange period paperback, VG PKM 104925 £4
Lariar, Lawrence : You've Got Me On The Hook: A Catch Of The Funniest Cartoons About Fishing By Leading Cartoonists. London: Hammond 1958. blue hardback, tall format, illus throughout, VG PKM 104916 £12
Merlin : The Book of Charms and Ceremonies. Whereby All May Have the Opportunity of Obtaining Any Object They Desire. London: Foulsham 1910. 96p small brown limp cloth cover, delightful very rare book full of charms for every occasion, fair condition, originally stapled but staples have mostly rotted away, all pages present, mostly clean and free from foxing, some slightly thumbed and occasion PKM 104380 £80
Topsfield, Valerie : The Humour of Samuel Beckett. London: Macmillan 1988. (Macmillan Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature) 143p hardback with red dustjacket, good condition, water damage has warping pages and dj, inscription on front endpaper otherwise clean and well bound PKM 104264 £26
Milligan, Spike : "Rommel?" "Gunner Who?". A Confrontation in the Desert. (War Biography Vol.2) London: BCA 1974. 192p black hardcover, fine condition, dustjacket in fine condition, includes b/w illustrations. PKM 104256 £8
R D : Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel. London: Peter Davies 1930. 119p red speckled hardback with white dustjacket, very good condition, dj in poor condition, some water damage and tears, cover a little faded, internally clean and well bound, beautiful illustrations throughout PKM 104099 £14
R D : Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel. London: Peter Davies 1930. 119p red speckled hardback, excellent condition, cover a little chipped, internally small amount of foxing, otherwise, clean and well bound, beautiful illustrations throughout PKM 104097 £14
Leacock, Stephen : Behind the Beyond. London: Lane 1919. 253p red hardback with lettering on spine and cover, colour frontisp and plates, VG PKM 104077 £8
Junior, Allan ; Crombie, Charles : The Canny Scot. Dundee: Valentine & Sons c1920. 34p paperback with tartan spine, good condition, cover quite tatty, internally pages unmarked and well bound, some very light foxing throughout, excellent illustrated plates throughout PKM 104045 £16
Collier, Ronald : More Bees Under My Bonnet. London: Motor Racing Publications 1958. 55p hardback with green and black dustjacket, very good condition, dj in good condition, a little scuffed on extremities, internally clean, tightly bound, illustrations throughout PKM 103963 £8
Burgess, Gelett : The Maxims of Methuselah. New York: Stokes 1907. 108p small hardback,very good condition, cover worn and a little bumped with age, contents well bound and clean, illustrations throughout, some light pencil markings PKM 103955 £10
Ritchie, Graeme : The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes. London: Routledge 2004. (Routledge Studies in Linguistics) 324p purple hardcover, fine condition as new PKM 103675 £60
Hicks, J S : An Illustrated Army List. London: Moss Bros & Co 1938. 16p rose card-wrapped oblong quarto, 1st edition, line drawings, poems, published to advertise military tailoring, worn sunned edges, split corners and some staple rusting, good. PKM 102853 £40
Legman, G : The Limerick. 1700 Examples with Variants and Index. New York: Portland 1974. lxxvii 516p cloth, dj, index VG+ PKM 102754 £18
Lamb, Charles : Last Essays of Elia. London: Harrap No date. (The Harrap Library) 219p dull green cloth, gilt to spine, frontisp, superb condition PKM 102742 £8
Winter, Charles : 24 Recitationettes. Being Tales Told in Verse. London: Reynolds & Co 1922. 20p booklet, slightly creased, dirty and foxed, but a rare curio PKM 102396 £8
Constanduros, Mabel ; Hudson, Lily : Overheard On The Promenade. London: French No date. (French's Monologue Series) 8p red booklet, very good condition, hard to find PKM 102395 £10
France, Mabel : The "Aunt Maria" Sketches. London: Reynolds & Co No date. 20p blue booklet, sl foxing, rare title PKM 102394 £10
Redfern, Walter : Puns. More Senses Than One. London: Penguin 2000. 289p paperback, condition as new, a couple of lines with yellow highlighter in first 3 pages, VG PKM 102286 £8
Jennings, Paul ; Hodson, Haro [Illustr]: Next To Oddliness. London: Reinhardt 1955. 162p small hardback with mustard jacket, first edition, excellent condition, cover a little worn but pages pristine, some foxing to page edges, VG PKM 102204 £6
Wodehouse, P G : A Pelican at Blandings. London: Penguin 1980. 190p paperback, excellent condition, VG PKM 102092 £6.5
Coward, Noel ; Albee, Edward [Introduction]: Three Plays. Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever & Private Lives. New York: Grove 1979. 254p black paperback, very good condition PKM 101368 £10
Styan, John : The Dark Comedy. The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy. Cambridge University Press 1968. 311p paperback, hardly used, 2nd ed, reading list, index, VG PKM 101182 £10
Rogers, Benjamin : The Knights of Aristophanes & The Birds of Aristophanes. The Greek Texts Revised with a Translation into Corresponding Metres, Introduction and Commentary. London: Bell & Sons 1910 & 1906. 247p & 305p black hardback vols, 'Knights' has tape to spine and notes in pen on inside back cover and is in, bindings poor, weak inner hinges, first editions, ex lib, some pencil marginalia PKM 101153 £25
Aye, John : Humour of Parliament and Parliamentary Elections. London: Universal Press 1931. 158p blue hardback, pages brown and stiff but clean, first edition, good condition, 'Garbled Reports' and 'Clever Retorts in the House' typical chapters PKM 100431 £6
Reed, Phoebe : My Pet Limericks. Illus Colleen Roark. West Sedona: Reed 1983. 32p stapled, yellow card cover, VG PKM 99733 £14
Gordon, Karen Elizabeth : The Deluxe Transitive Vampire.The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed. New York: Pantheon 1984. 175p hb w cloth spine, dj, illustrated, as new, VG+ PKM 98966 £6
(No Author) : A Brighter Side Anthology. The Third Pocket Trivet. 15 Illus by Thomas Bewick. The Morning Post 1934. 90p small format, green cloth spine, label to front board, VG PKM 97916 £8
Ungerer, Tomi ; Cole, William : A Cat-Hater's Handbook or the Ailurophobe's Delight. London: Allen 1963. hardback, first edition, clean copy, without dustjacket PKM 97902 £12
D, J G D : High Hats and Sly-Boots. Privately Distributed 1964?. 61p with b/w dustjacket, illustrations, clean copy, first edition, VG PKM 97715 £24
: Foulsham's Bumper Fun Book. A Great Amusement Book for the Home. Laughter and Fun for Everyone. New York: Foulsham 1960?. orange paperback, paper yellowing, very good condition, no faults PKM 97707 £8
Kohn, Alexander [Ed]: The Journal of Irreproducible Results- Offical Organ of the Society of Basic Irreproducible Research. Vols 15, 16, 17 (1966 - 1968) Chicago 1966 - 1968. large stapled single issues, VG, 3 issues for vol 15 and 16, 2 issues for vol 17, plus 3 issues for Vol 19 and one for Vol 20 (1973) PKM 97267 £35
Griesbach, Heinz ; Griesbach, Rosemarie : Humor und Satire. Texte mit Übungen von Heinrich Böll, Max Frisch, Erich Kästner, Kurt Tucholsky etc. München: Hueber 1972. (Deutsch für Fortgeschrittene) 112p green paperback, fresh clean copy, no traces of use PKM 96291 £15
Gilman, Sander : The Parodic Sermon in European Perspective. Aspects of liturgical parody from the middle ages to the twentieth century. Wiesbaden: Steiner 1974. 244p white paperback with illus cover, VG+, clean fresh copy PKM 96230 £30
Henscheid, Eckhard : Dummdeutsch. Frankfurt: Fischer 1985. paperback, VG PKM 95806 £4
Ball, W W Rouse ; Coxeter, H S M : Mathematical Recreations and Essays. 11th Edition. London: Macmillan 1940. 418p red cloth with gilt lettering, nice copy, war standard paper, VG PKM 95634 £10
Steinhaus, Hubert : Mathematical Snapshots. Leipzig: Stechert 1938. 135p orig cloth binding with humidity damage visible on front cover, illus throughout, pocket with paper toys in back (coloured star-shaped form incomplete) stereo glasses, first edition which has seen some humidity as visible on cover, and also visible a PKM 94878 £58
Jonas, Monika : Der spätmittelalterliche Versschwank. Studien zu einer Vorform trivialer Literatur. Innsbruck 1987. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Germanistische Reihe) 316p large paperback, VG+ PKM 94310 £28
Ball, W W Rouse ; Coxeter, H S M : Mathematical Recreations and Essays. 12th Edition. Toronto University Press 1974. 428p paperback with black cover, VG+ PKM 94248 £12
Manser, Martin : The Guinness Book of Words. London: Guinness Books 1988. 160 pages stiff paper cover, VG PKM 94072 £8
Forster, Leonard : Poetry of Significant Nonsense. An Inaugural Lecture. Cambridge University Press 1962. 46p sewn booklet, fresh nice copy, name on title PKM 94039 £10
Renatus, Johannes : Allerlee aus d'r Äberlausitz. Heiteres und Ernstes in Oberlausitzer Mundart. Vol 4 only. Bautzen: Eduard Rühl 1893. 241p terracotta cloth with black ornaments and gilt lettering, a fresh and firm clean copy PKM 93662 £24
Lambel, Hans : Erzählungen und Schwänke. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1872. (Deutsche Klassiker des Mittelalters mit Wort und Sacherklärungen) 358p bound in plain blue cloth with spine tearing, a nice clean copy PKM 93661 £14
Boole, Mary Everest : Philosophy and Fun of Algebra. Signed Copy, First Edition. London: Daniel 1909. 90p green cloth with mistletoe design, tight copy, cover sl dulled, VG. Inscribed "P Jourdain from the Author Xmas 1910" with Philip Jourdain bookplate, also inserted another note regarding provenance PKM 92949 £120
Sykes, Arthur : A Book of Words reprinted in Part from Punch. With a few Sketches by the Author. Westminster: Constable 1895. green cloth with gilt donkey to front, illus title page and many ornaments, author inscription in mirror writing (sic), nice fresh copy PKM 92806 £46
Sykes, Arthur : Harking Back. In Verse and Prose. (From Punch). London: Simpkin Marshall and Co 1929. 132p author inscription on endpaper, first edition, VG+ PKM 92805 £20
Katasonova, E N [Ed]: Funny Stories. (After Jane Thayer). Second Edition. Moscow: Progress 1987. 94p paperback, coloured cover, foreign language teaching book PKM 92154 £14
Freeman, Roger : As I Was A-Saying: Country Goings-On. Ipswich: Malthouse Press 1973. 144p brown paperback, VG PKM 92075 £6
Coren, Alan [Ed]: Pick of "Punch" London: Hutchinson 1983. hardcover with dustjacket, VG, clean firm copy without fault: Nobody calls Sir Rodney an idle bastard and get away with it PKM 92062 £8
Doran, Amanda-Jane [Ed]: "Punch" Book of Utterly British Humour. London: Grafton 1989. 176p hardback blue dustjacket, VG+ "Soon be autumn, the rain's getting colder" PKM 92061 £8
Johnson, Kim (Howard) : The First 20 Years of Monty Python. Plexus. Kim "Howard" Johnson Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book. Availability: usually dispatched within 1 to 2 working days 10 Used & New from £4.90 See larger photoEdition: Paperback More Product Details Product Details:Paperback 288 pag PKM 92060 £8
Surtees, Robert Smith : Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities. Dent / Everyman 1943. 245p red cloth, plain binding, VG, clean firm copy PKM 91903 £8
Exley, Richard : Happy Families. Life and Laughter in the Family, as Seen by Children. Watford: Exley 1977. hardback, VG, nice clean copy PKM 89745 £6.75
Fiore, Albie : Shaping Rubik's Snake. London: Penguin 1981. small square paperback PKM 89101 £9
Herbert, A P : Two Gentlemen of Soho. London: French 1960?. 28p paper cover, pencil notes to text, correspondence with publisher and acting licence included PKM 88966 £7.2
Thody, Philip ; Evans, Howard : Faux Amis & Key Words - A Dictionary-Guide to French Language, Culture and Society through Lookalikes and Confusables. London: Athlone 1985. 224p paperback, VG PKM 88810 £5
Rees, Nigel : Epitaphs. A Dictionary of of Grave Epigrams and Memorial Eloquence. London: Bloomsbury 1994. red paperback, as new PKM 88525 £7.2
Hollowood, Bernard : Pick of Punch. London: Office of the Punch 1967. 180p large format, dustjacket present and nice, VG, clean copy PKM 87707 £19.8
Eliezer, Ben : The World's Best Jewish Jokes. Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1984. 87p red paperback, sl used, but still a clean and firm copy PKM 87688 £5.4
Adams, Anthony ; Leach, Robert : Talent, Wonder and Delight. A Scrapbook of Victorian Entertainment. London: Blackie 1976. 88p paperback, VG with shelfmark PKM 87567 £5.4
Lette, Kathy : Nip 'n' Tuck. London: Picador 2001. hardback with dustjacket, as new, virtually unused, as new PKM 87505 £6.3
: The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire. New York: American Book Company 1894. Excerpts from Rabelais, Shakespeare, Fenelon, Swift, Pope, Maria Edgeworth, Dickens, Gogol, etc PKM 86894 £10.8
Mather, Victoria ; Macartney-Snape, Sue : The Appalling Guests, Social Stereotypes from the Telegraph Magazine. London: Murray 2003. 96p hardback with white illustrated jacket, little use, pages clean with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 86696 £5.4
Jones, Nick : The Bestiary. Cokaygne Press 1972. Unpaginated spiral bound pink booklet with dusty card cover, photograpsh throughout, printed from handwritten original, VG PKM 86642 £13.5
Wodehouse, P G : Something Fresh. London: Methuen 1933. 251p blue cloth with black lettering to cover and spine, a little dusty but pages clean, VG PKM 86099 £4.5
Amis, Kingsley [Ed]: Harold's Years. Impressions from the New Statesman and the Spectator. London: Quartet 1977. 175p hardback with white laminated jacket, a little yellowed but pages clean, first edition, VG PKM 85666 £9
[Punch]: Punch, October 12, 1983. London: Office of the Punch 1983. Journal with illustrated cover, little use, pages clean with cartoons, advertisments and articles by Simon Hoggart and Alan Coren, VG PKM 85429 £4.5
[Punch]: Punch, June 20th 1984. London: Office of the Punch 1984. Journal with illustrated cover, little use, pages clean with cartoons, advertisments and articles by Melvyn Bragg and Alan Coren, VG PKM 85428 £4.5
Lewis, Martin : Today's the Day. Virgin 1995. 143p yellow paperback with pictorial laminated cover, pages clean with pictures throughout, VG PKM 85412 £5.4
Epstein, Eugene : Who Put the Wit in Switzerland? Benteli 1988. 94p yellow paperback with illustrated laminated cover, as new, pages clean, VG PKM 84974 £13.5
Wilde, Oscar : Intentions and Other Writings. New York: Dolphin 1950s?. 227p blue paperback with card cover, some use, pages clean with catalogue, VG PKM 83708 £13.5
Williams, Kenneth : Acid Drops. London: Coronet 1981. 192p blue paperback with pictorial card cover, little use, pages clean with illustrations, VG PKM 82830 £4.5
Lebègue, Raymond : Le Theatre Comique en France de Pathelin a Melite. Paris: Hatier 1972. (Connaissance des Lettres) 191p red and white paperback with white illustrated laminated cover, owner's inscription but harldy used, pages clean with index, French language, VG PKM 82460 £10
Jerrold, Douglas : A Man Made of Money, Chronicles of Clovernook. (The Writings of Douglas Jerrold, Collected Edition, Vol 6 only) London: Bradbury & Evans 1853. 344p orig black cloth with blindstamped orn to boards and gilt lettering to spine, a fresh & tight copy, very little used, yellow endpapers intact, text printed in simple black frame, no plates called for, VG PKM 82418 £22.5
Nobbs, David : I Didn't Get Where I Am Today. A Life in Television, Books and Other Comedies. London: Heinemann 2003. 369p hardback with red illustrated jacket, water damage to page edges hence bubbling but pages clean with plates thorughout, VG PKM 82144 £6.75
Hilditch, Neville [Ed]: In Praise of Humour. An Anthology of Enjoyment. London: Muller 1949. 64p small cerise hardback with happy and sad face patterned paper boards, first edition, pages clean with illustrations thorughout, VG PKM 82128 £9
Bryson, Bill : The Lost Continent, Travels in Small Town America and Made in America. London: Abacus 1999. (Black Swan) 293p 478p white paperbacks with illustrated card covers, some use but pages clean, good copies, VG PKM 82091 £7.87
Knutson, Harold : The Triumph of Wit. Moliere and Restoration Comedy. Ohio State University Press 1988. 192p hardback with white illustrated jacket, edges a little grubby but pages clean, first edition, notes, bibliography and index, plates to centre, VG PKM 82057 £9
M'Ghie, M P : 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. Dublin: M'Cullagh & M'Cullagh 1860. title and 2 pages, p2 contains additional text, "fifth edition" on title, printed from plate, paper yellowing, removed from binding PKM 81825 £21.6
Hollander, Nicole : Ma, Can I Be a Feminist and Still Like Men? New York: St Martin's 1980. Unpaginated white paperback with illustrated laminated cover, landscape profile, ink inscription, pages clean and illustrated throughout, VG PKM 80648 £9
Scarron : La Roman Comique. Paris: Flammarion 1981. 382p white paperback with illustrated laminated cover, some use, pages clean, French language, VG PKM 80513 £4.5
Balmas, Enea [Ed]: Comedies du XVI Siecle. Paris: Nizet 1967. 313p grey paperback with card cover, little use, pages clean with bibliographical note, French language, VG PKM 80416 £12.6
Butler, Samuel ; Hogarth, William : Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Corrected and Amended with Additions. London: Hitch, Hawes, etc 1761. xi 401p small full calf volume with red label to spine, hinges weak but in place, engr frontisp and additional folding plates by Hogarth, VG PKM 80225 £32
Lederer, Richard : Word Circus. Illustrated by Dave Morice. Mirriam - Webster 1998. 295p hardback with red illustrated laminated cover, as new, spine a little suned but pages clean with illustrations throughout, VG+ PKM 80146 £7.2
Swift, Jonathan : The Tale Of A Tub - and Other Works. Edited by Henry Morley. London: Routledge 1889. (Carisbrooke Library) 448p half calf binding with worn spine but still in place, text clean, binding firm PKM 79804 £9
MacHale, Des : The Book of Elephant Jokes. Cork: Mercier 1982. 48p purple and white stapled booklet with illustrated laminated card cover, some use, pages clean, VG PKM 79625 £5.4
Taylor, Henry : The Statesman: An Ironical Treatise on the Art of Succeeding. With an Introd Essay by Harold Laski. Cambridge: Heffer 1957. lvi 134p hardback dustjacket, publisher's compliments glued to front endpaper, a few neat pencil marks in margin, VG PKM 79282 £12.6
Lent, John [Ed]: Illustrating Asia. Comics, Humour, Magazines and Picture books. London: Curzon 2001. (ConsunAsiaN) 249p hardback with green pictorial laminated jacket, as new, pages clean with plates, references and index, excellent copy PKM 79175 £36
Hollander, Nicole : Okay! Thinner Thighs for Everyone. New York: St Martin's 1984. 128p oblong paperback, VG PKM 78256 £5
Sterne, Laurence : The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Oxford University Press 1987. (Penguin Classics) xxix 659p pb, introduction, notes, as new PKM 78129 £4.5
Milligan, Spike : Rommel. Gunner Who? London: Penguin 1974. 208p paperback, nice clean copy, illus in text PKM 77815 £3.6
Mahood, Kenneth : The Secret Sketchbook of a Bloomsbury Lady. Foreword by Michael Holroyd. New York: St Martin's 1982. 64p green hardback with printed marbled boards and illustrated cover, little used first edition, marbled end papers with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 77358 £5.4
Ayckbourn, Alan : A Small Family Business. London: Faber & Faber 1987. 112p green paperback with patterned card cover, some use, pages clean, VG PKM 77355 £4.5
Louvish, Simon : Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy. London: Faber & Faber 2002. Paperback, this is a new copy without any traces of use PKM 77052 £7.2
Wolfe Publishing : The International Joke Dictionary. How to Raise a Laugh in Five Languages: English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. London: Wolfe Publishing 1969. 127p red paperback with laminated card cover, beginning to yellow but pages clean with each joke translated across the page in each language, VG PKM 76968 £12
Parrott, E O [Ed]: How to Become Absurdly Well Informed About the Famous and Infamous. A Collection of Brief Biographies. London: Penguin 1988. 220p red paperback with illustrated laminated cover and orange spine, as new, pages clean, VG PKM 76880 £4.5
[Hislop, Ian]; Ingram, Richard : Private Eye: Son of Blair, The Sequel and More Vicar Anyone. St Albion Parish News 3 and 4. Further Letters from the Vicar, the Rev A R P Blair MA (Oxon) London: Private Eye 2000 - 2001. 96p 96p paperbacks with colour pictorial laminated covers, as new, pages clean with photographs and illustrations throughout, VG+ PKM 76591 £5.4
Matthew, Christopher : Now We Are Sixty. Decorations by David Eccles. London: Murray 2000. 111p hardback with white illustrated paper jacket, as new, pages clean with printed end papers and illustrated throughout, VG+ PKM 76590 £4.5
Lariar, Lawrence [Ed]: Best Cartoons of the Year 1971. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co 1971. Unpaginated large hardback with white illustrated laminated jacket, beginning to yellow but pages clean and unmarked, includes cartoons by Arno, Handlesman and Yauk, VG PKM 76531 £13.5
Wilde, Oscar ; Sheridan, Richard et al: Three Comedies: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Critic, The Importance of Being Earnest. Edited by G P W Earle. London: Ginn & Co 1930s?. 309p green cloth with rubbed gilt lettering to cover and spine, hardly used, library bookplate, pages clean with notes, appendix and illustrations, very nice copy, VG+ PKM 75964 £6.3
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro : Comedias. Coleccion Mas Completa que Todas las Anteriores, Heche e Ilustrada por Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch. Tomo Primero y Segundo. Madrid: Rivadeneyra 1862 / 187. (BAE) 610p 686p petrol coloured quarter calf with gilt lettering on spine and small design between raised bands, somewhat scuffed ex-lib copies, corners bumped and some rubbing to spine extremities and edges, hinges of Volume 2 opening and minor ink stains to e PKM 75758 £31.5
de Rojas Zorrilla, Francisco : Comedias Escogidas. Ordenadas en Coleccion por Ramon de Mesonero Romanos. Madrid: Rivadeneyra 1866. (BAE) 602p brown large half calf with brown marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, ex-lib hence stickers and stamps, spine a little rubbed but altogether in nice condition, binding good and pages clean with triple and some single columned text, Spanish langua PKM 75756 £14.4
Ruiz de Alarcon, Juan : Comedias. Coleccion Hecha e Ilustrada por Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch. Madrid: Rivadeneyra 1852. (BAE) 552p brown large half calf with brown marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, ex-lib hence stickers and stamps, spine a little rubbed but binding still quite nice, rear cover slightly bowed, binding good and pages clean with triple and some double column PKM 75755 £13.5
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro : Teatro de Calderon de la Barca con un Estudios Crticc - Biografico y Apuntes Hitoricos y Bibliograficos Sobre Cada Comedia por Garcia Ramon. Tomo 3: Comedia, Tomo 4: Comedias. Paris: Garnier 1877. 588p 612p rebound brown hardbacks with gilt lettering on spines, ex-lib hence binding, bookplates, red speckled edges browned, pages clean with index, Spanish language, VG PKM 75588 £58.5
Farman, John : You Can't Tell a Rook by its Cover. Unreliable Proverbs. London: Pan 1989. approx 20p unpaginated sm square white hardback with illustrated laminated cover, as new, pages clean with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 74673 £5.4
Nash, Ogden : The Face is Familiar. London: Dent 1954. 174p cloth with pink paper jacket, little use, pages clean, VG PKM 74390 £4.5
Woollcott, Alexander : While Rome Burns. London: Penguin 1940. 247p yellow and white paperback with matching jacket, a little dusty but pages clean, VG PKM 74381 £3.6
Thurber, James : Thurber's Dogs. A Collection of the Master's Dogs. Written and Drawn, Real and Imaginary, Living and Long Ago. London: Penguin 1958. 222p orange and white paperback with illustrated cover, little used first publisher's edition, pages clean with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 74379 £9
Nash, Ogden : Family Reunion. London: Dent 1951. 146p hardback with green illustrated jacket, a little scuffed along the edges, first British edition, pages clean, VG PKM 74366 £5.4
Milligan, Spike : Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall. London: Penguin 1972. 142p paperback, nice clean copy, illus in text PKM 74190 £4.5
Casson, Hugh [Foreword]: Drawing the Line. Cartoonists Against Apartheid. A Selection of Illustrations from 20 Years of Anti-Apartheid News. London: Anti-Apartheid Movement 1985. 38p red stapled paperback with laminated illustrated cover, hardly used, pages clean, VG PKM 73236 £10.8
Voskressenski, Alexei [Ed]: Cranks, Knaves and Jokers of the Celestial: Chinese Parables and Funny Stories. Commack: Nova Science 1997. 141p blue hardbackwith illustrated, laminated cover, as new, pages clean with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 73092 £22.5
Sellar, W C ; Yeatman, R J : And Now All This, Being Vol 1 of the Hole Pocket Treasury of Absolutely General Knowledge. Second Edition. London: Methuen 1932. viii 120p red cloth, cartoon illustrations in text, VG PKM 71440 £5.4
Schmitz, Karlchen : Hu is Hu? Wer ist [denn schon] wer? Konrads politische Erben. Heilbronn: Paulus Verlag 1968. 96p (no pagination) pb, illustr, bright orange cover, cover sl rubbed at top end, otherwise neat and clean copy with caricatures and drawings throughout PKM 71190 £5.4
Goscinny ; Uderzo : Obelix and Co. Translated by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1980. 48p large blue paperback with illustrated cover, small chip to top of spine, edges a little browned but pages clean and unmarked with colour illustrations throughout, VG PKM 70410 £9
Milligan, Spike : Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall. London: Penguin 1980. paperback, nice clean copy, illus in text PKM 68567 £5.4
Milligan, Spike : Monty. His Part in My Victory. London: Penguin 1978. paperback, nice clean copy, illus in text PKM 68566 £3.6
Urbach, Reinhard : Die Wiener Komödie und ihr Publikum: Stranitzky und die Folgen. Wien: Jugend & Volk 1973. (Wiener Themen) 147p hb protective sleeve, tipped-in frontisp, index, photogr plates, hardly used, VG PKM 67694 £7.2
Vecchione, Glen : Challenging Math Puzzles. Illustrated by Glen Vecchioe and Nina Zottoli. Sterling 1998. 96p paperback with patterned cover hardly used, pages clean and unmarked with diagrams throughout, VG PKM 66424 £4.5
Frohlichstein, Jack : Mathematical Fun, Games and Puzzles. New York: Dover 1962. 306p + publisher's catalogue, paperback with blue patterned cover, hardly used, edges very slightly yellowed, pages clean and unmarked, VG PKM 66345 £9
Ward, Artemus : Artemus Ward His Book. With a Biographical Introduction by Hannaford Bennett. London: John Long 1906. (Carlton Classics) 148p small red cloth covered boards, faded lettering on spine and publisher's blindstamp on cover, hinges yielding, pages clean, VG PKM 65384 £4.5
Carroll, Lewis : The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits. London: Macmillan 1913. xiv 84p 16cm embossed cloth, frontisp, illus, VG PKM 65115 £8
Beutelspacher, Albrecht : Pasta all'infinito: Meine Italienische Reise in die Mathematik. München: Beck 2000. 267p cloth dj, almost as new, German language, VG+ PKM 64945 £8
Rose, Marius : The Intelliegent Teacher's Guide to Preferment. Illustrated by Biro. First Edition. London: Chatto & Windus 1954. 96p primrose cloth with red lettering on spine, jacket a little worn and dust marked but undamaged, minor foxing to edges and end papers but pages clean and unmarked, VG PKM 64893 £6.3
(No Author) : Ancient Ballads, Songs and Poems. Bound with 1) Songs Descriptive, Moral and Pastoral. Humourous; and bound with 2) Songs Elegiac. Sea; and bound with Scotish Ballads and Songs. Manchester: Printed by G Nicholson, sold by T Knott and Champante & Whitrow 1796. 81p, 28p + 12p, 40p, 52p titlepages with arms or engraved illus, imprint for "Songs Elegiac. Sea" is Ludlow 1799, glossary and contents, a neat small volume in full calf, front board detached, some pages have faint pencil reference to Percy, very uncommon PKM 63306 £90
Hood, Thomas : The Serious Poems of Thomas Hood. With a Preface of Thomas Hood the Younger. London: Moxon 1868. (The Pocket Series) 484p small blue hardback with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover, pages clean, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, VG PKM 63041 £14
Sphere Books : I hate... Rich Bastards. London: Sphere 1986. Unpaginated small comic paperback, stapled, cover slightly yellowed, pges clean with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 63026 £5.4
Silvey ; Jex : Flashers. Silvey-Jex 1981. 33p paperback, cartoon book, inscription otherwise VG PKM 62083 £4.5
Polt, Gerhard : Herr Ober! Das vollständige Drehbuch mit vielen Fotos. Zürich: Haffmans 1992. 138p paperback, VG+ PKM 61693 £6.3
Bergson, Henri : Le Rire: Essai sur la Signification du Comique. Paris: Alcan 1914. 204p sm green cloth, sl weak inner hinges, nice copy, 14ième édition, VG ex lib copy PKM 61205 £9
Treasure, Geoff : What me, Sir? Episodes in the Life of a Young Teacher fresh from College. Leicester: Inter-Varsity 1972. 95p sm pb, illustrations, VG PKM 61163 £8
Davis, William [Ed]: The Star-Spangled Jack. Punch, 24 Sept 1969. London: Office of the Punch 1969. ix pp 477 - 520 stapled pb A4 format, illustrations, ads, VG PKM 61083 £6.3
Whibley, Charles [Ed]: In Cap and Gown: Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co 1889. 354p burgundy cloth w/ gilt lettering, index, publisher's catalogue at back, cracked hinge, cloth a little rubbed, pages clean and fresh w/ no foxing, VG PKM 60953 £20
Belloc, Hilaire : Selected Cautionary Verses. London: Penguin 1951. (Puffin) 181p pb, illus Bentley, VG PKM 59438 £4.5
Duggan, Irene ; Somerville, Veronica : Pardon the Inconvenience. Salisbury: Privately Printed 1973. 46p, pb, collection of humourus stories and drawings about bathrooms, VG+ PKM 57986 £12.6
Brandolini : Fritz, No 1, Jg 1, Berlin 1985. Berlin: Fritz 1985. xl 228p sm pb, illustrations, various contributors, advertisements, sl weak inner hinges, VG PKM 57661 £10.8
Freud, Sigmund : Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten. Frankfurt: Fischer 1958. (Bücher des Wissens) 201p pb, index, VG PKM 57643 £3.6
Sawyer, W W : Mathematician's Delight. London: Penguin 1944. 234p paperback, VG PKM 57201 £4.5
Lowell, James Russell : Biglow Papers by Homer Wilbur. 3rd Edition. Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1853. 12p (=Notices of an Independent Press) xxxii 163p, orig brown cloth blindstamped, in back 8 page catalogue of books by Ticknor Reed and Fields dated December 1853 and bound between endpapers, a clean and firm ex lib copy with name in ink and bookplate and PKM 57135 £25.2
Gilbreath, Robert : Escape From Management Hell: 12 Tales of Horror, Humor and Heroism. (First Edition) San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler 1993. xiv 161p cloth, dj, illustrated, as new PKM 56886 £18
Arno, Peter : The Penguin Peter Arno. London: Penguin 1957. 124p, pb, book of cartoons, VG PKM 56819 £5
Gordon, Jan ; Bateman, H M : Art ain't all Paint. Feature Books 1944. 84p large blue cloth, illustrations, collection of limerick-like poems, index, notes, very well preserved copy, VG ex lib copy PKM 56559 £10.8
Benchley, Robert : Around the World Backwards and Sideways. With Drawings by Gluyas Williams. London: Dobson 1952. ix 241p cloth dj with illustration, 1st edition, illustrations, nice and clean pages, VG PKM 56466 £10
Müller, Wolfgang ; Hammer, Konrad [Eds]: Narren, Henker, Komödianten: Geschichte und Funktion des politischen Kabaretts. Bonn: Schaffende Jugend 1956. 145p large square cloth with adhesive transparent film over cover, many illustrations, VG ex lib copy PKM 56436 £9
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph : Aphorismen. Zeichnungen von Fritz Fischer. Zweite Auflage. München: Hanser 1955. 62p card cover with illustration on front, illustrations, hardly used, VG PKM 56318 £13.5
Trudgill, Peter : Coping with America. A Beginner's Guide to the USA. Oxford: Blackwell 1982. xi 144p paperback, cartoon illustrations, index, VG PKM 56236 £12.6
Morgenstern, Christian : Das Mondschaf. Eine Auswahl aus den Galgenliedern./ The Moon Sheep. Authorized English Version by A E Eitzen. Wiesbaden: Insel 1953. 95p hb, collection of poems in German and English, VG PKM 55705 £9
Andres, Stefan : Vom heiligen Pfäfflein Domenico. München: List 1966. 118p sm hb, illustrations, VG PKM 55544 £5
Reimann, Hans : Das Paukerbuch: Skizzen vom Gymnasium. Hannover: Steegemann 1922. 116p sm hb, spine absent, illustration on cover, weak inner hinges, VG PKM 55540 £8
Bridgwater, Patrick : The Poet as Hero and Clown: A Study of Heym and Lichtenstein. Durham University Press 1986. (GM 2) 82p paper covers, notes, bibliography, almost as new, VG+ PKM 55493 £12.6
Eichholz, Armin : In Flagranti. Parodien. München: Pohl 1954. 96p, boards, dustjacket, VG 4.-8. Tausend PKM 54710 £6
Jost, Walter : Der Alybaaba baaseldytsch. Fääderezaichnige vo der Therèse Robert. Basel: GS 1981. 72p hb, illustrations, hardly used, VG+ PKM 54410 £12
Oechelhaeuser, Gisela [Ed]: Das letzte Ende: Gibt es ein Leben nach der Wiedervereinigung? Berlin: Hentrich 1991. (lansk mehr produktion) 95p large pb, illustrations, frontisp, hardly used, VG+ PKM 54362 £10.8
Oechelhaeuser, Gisela [Ed]: Von der Wende bis zum Ende: Wendejahr - die Distel im Scharfen Kanal. Berlin: Hentrich 1990. (lansk mehr produktion) 95p large pb, illustrations, various contributors, VG+ PKM 54360 £7
Hartung, Hugo : König Bogumil König. Ein heiterer Roman. Düsseldorf: Droste 1961. 237p cloth dj, VG+, a fresh and nice copy PKM 54329 £7
(No Author) : Palmström als Flieger. Von Zarathustra. Neu herausgegeben und ergänzt von Paul dem Scherschanten, mit neuen Zeichnungen von Wolfgang Goetze. Frankfurt: Hauserpresse 1942. 87p hb illustrated cover, spine sl torn, glossary, illustrations, very well preserved copy, VG PKM 54293 £9
Morgenstern, Christian : Alle Galgenlieder: Galgenlieder, Palmström, Palma Kunkel, Gingganz. Berlin: Cassirer 1933. 327p yelow square cloth, sl weak inner hinges, illustrations, VG, 21. - 40. Tausend PKM 54240 £9
Parsons, Ruth : Taken for a Ride: One Woman's View of Working on the Buses. Drawings by Christopher Madden. London: Centerprise 1980. 30p stapled booklet, illustrations, VG PKM 54149 £10.8
Immermann, Karl : Münchhausen. Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe. Zweiter Theil. Düsseldorf: Schaub 1841. iv 189p, plain gren cloth (sl soiled but firm) contains Acta Schnickschnackschnurriana etc PKM 53850 £21.6
Pollard, Arthur : Satire. London: Methuen 1970. (Critical Idiom) 84p green and white booklet with laminated card cover, some minor ink underlining otherwise pages clean, index, bibliogr, VG PKM 53785 £6.3
(No Author) : Punch, or The London Charivari, June 30, 1915, Vol 148. London: Office of the Punch 1915. 520p sm quarto plum cloth, gilt illustration on cover, sl weak inner hinges, colour title pages, illustrations, nice and clean pages, firm binding, a very fine copy, PKM 53126 £19.8
Eldin, Peter : Skool Graffiti. Illustrations by John Miller. London: Arrow 1982. (Sparrow Book) approx 30p pb, illustrations, VG PKM 53092 £8
Gossett, Margaret : Piccolo Book of Jokes. Text Illustrations by Karen Heywood. Revised edition. London: Pan 1974. (Piccolo Book) 124p pb, cover sl creased, illustrations, VG PKM 53091 £7
Heath : Bloomers. Illustrated by Heath. London: Unwin 1982. (Unwin Paperbacks Humour) 80p pb, illustrations, hardly used, VG PKM 53090 £7
Immermann, Karl : Münchhausen: Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe, vierter Theil. Düsseldorf: Schaub 1841. v 168p sm green cloth, cover a little dirty, sl foxing, firm binding, still very well preserved copy PKM 53049 £18
Sedgemore, Brian : The Insider's Guide to Parliament. London: Icon 1995. 144p large square pb, illustrations, hardly used, VG PKM 52973 £9
(No Author) : Blasius Spritzfährtli: Genf - Hamburg - Schwarzwald - Basel. Mit Zeichnungen vom jungen Blasius. Zweite Auflage. Basel: Schwabe 1958. 84p cloth dj, illustrations, VG PKM 52906 £10.8
Piper-Whittingstall, Jocelyn [Ed]: The Big Ben Bunkside Book, or For Home the Bell Tolls. London: Frewin 1966. approx 25p sm square hb, photogr plates, VG PKM 52827 £5.4
Ure, Norman [Ed]: The Ted Heath Bunkside Book. London: Frewin 1971. approx 25p sm square hb, photogr plates, VG PKM 52824 £5.4
King, B A [Ed]: The Prince Charles Heirside Book. London: Frewin 1972. approx 25p sm square hb, photogr plates, VG PKM 52823 £5.4
Hazlitt, William : Lectures on the English Comic Writers. London: Dent 1904. (Temple Classics) 304p bright blue cloth, spine gilt, frontisp w/ tissueguard, thin paper edition, VG+ PKM 50264 £10.8
Leacock, Stephen : Feast of Stephen. Ed. Robertson Davies. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 1970. 154p large pb, 'a cornucopia of delights', VG PKM 47809 £9
R[andall], D[avies] : A Little More Nonsense. Kensington: Cayme Press 1923. 90p marbled boards, paper title labels to spine & cover, limericks with old woodcut illustrations, corners of cover rather worn, edges worn, paper detaching from board around spine, eps sl foxed, VG- ex lib copy PKM 47759 £18
Davies, Randall : A Lyttel Booke of Nonsense. 1st ed. London: Macmillan 1912. 153p quarter buff cloth, card-covered boards, limericks illustrated with old woodcuts, "To join them to new occasions need be no slur on their value and beautym if the rhyme be taken as lightly as it is offered", letter regarding one of the illustrations PKM 47758 £18
Gardner, Martin : Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. London: Penguin 1966. 155p pb, illus, VG PKM 47687 £3.6
Dudeney, Henry : Amusements in Mathematics. London: Nelson 1940. viii 258p red cloth with black lettering to spine, 430 puzzles, many illus, spine dulled, fitted with private parcel paper dustjacket, VG PKM 47674 £9
D, R : Less Eminent Victorians. London: Davies 1927. approx 60p of limericks with illustrations, cloth A4 format, first edition, VG+ PKM 47220 £25.2
Scarron : Le romant comique, Vols 1 - 2. Texte établi et présenté par Henri Bénac. Paris: Belles Lettres 1951. (Les Textes Français) complete in 2 vols 263p 326p brown cloth, leather labels on spine, appendices, notes, biography, library stamped, in excellent condition PKM 47162 £37.8
Eller, Vernard : The Mad Morality or The Ten Commandments Revisited. New York: New American Library 1970. (Signet Books) 254p pb, illustrations, cover sl worn, VG PKM 46860 £6.3
Prohias, Antonio : Mad's Spy vs Spy Follow-Up File. London: New English Library 1968. (Signet Books) approx 100p pb, illustrated, VG PKM 46859 £6.3
Kraitchnik, Maurice : Mathematical Recreations. London: Allen & Unwin 1943. 328p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, index, mathematical games and logic puzzles, spine chipped, binding sl loose but intact, VG PKM 46380 £10.8
Leacock, Stephen : Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy. London: Bodley Head 1918. vi 217p blue cloth, humourous and satirical short stories, hurts to spine, binding sl loose, cover dulled, VG PKM 46264 £7.2
Healey, Tim : Extraordinary Inventions: Bizzare Ideas that never got off the Ground. New York: Reader's Digest 1986. 48p stapled booklet, outrageous inventions from early 'flying machines' and single-wheeled rollerskates to machines to trap Nessie and nocturnal sundials, VG PKM 46193 £4
Saintsbury, George : A Scrap Book. London: Macmillan 1922. xvi 298p purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine, criticism, commentary and satire, spine sunned, few faint marginal pencil markings, VG ex lib copy PKM 46155 £7.2
Courtenay, John : A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the Late Samuel Johnson. California University Press 1969. (The Augustan Reprint Society) x 28p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, facsimile reprint of 1786 original with introduction, VG+ unused ex lib copy PKM 46035 £12.6
A Rambling Batchelor : Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed: Wherein Are the Various Customs of Near 100 Different Kingdoms and People in the World, Now Used in the Celebration and Consummation ot Marriage, To Which is Added the Comical Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald. Serjeant 1900. iv 104p hb, notes, account of marriage customs arround the world, plus a comical account of a man's seven unsuccessful marriages, cover grubby, hurts to spine, VG- PKM 45648 £16.2
[(No Author)]: Punch. Vols 86 & 87. London: Office of the Punch 1884. 2 vols bound as one: iv 312p, iv 312p large 4to blue cloth, early issues of sartirical magazine, very many cartoons & engravings, binding sl loose, front hinge weak, hurts to spine, VG- PKM 45600 £27
Waller, John : Shaggy Dog and other Surrealist Fables. Illustrated by Frank Wilson. London: Duckworth 1953. (First Edition) viii 72p sm hb, frontisp, funny illustrations, notes, VG+ bright and fresh PKM 45168 £16.2
(No Author) : My Funniest Story: An Anthology of Stories chosen by their own Authors. London: Faber & Faber 1950. 498p yellow cloth, cover a bit dusty, contributors include P Wodehouse, H G Wells, L Merrick, H Graham, A Freeman, J Bell, and others, VG PKM 45085 £14.4
Mason, Edward [Ed]: Humorous Materpieces from American Literature, Vol 1. Edinburgh: Douglas 1886. viii 287p cloth with gilt on cover and spine, includes W Irving, N Hawthorne, H Longfellow, E Quincy, O Holmes, Ch Leland, and many more, very well preserved ex lib copy PKM 45080 £10.8
Lane, Maggie : The Brontë Sisters Quiz and Puzzle Book. Bristol: Abson 1983. 44p pb, illus, as new (no answers filled in!) PKM 45003 £5
Cameron, Roderick : Shells. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1961. 127p large square hb, many illustrations, some in colour, chapters on Shells in Art, Handbooks and Nomenclature, Univalves and Bivalves, etc, VG PKM 44534 £5.4
Ebdon, John : Ebdon's England. First edition. Newton Abbot: David & Charles 1985. 189p hb, dj, illus, VG: Englishness, whims & eccentricities PKM 43140 £7.2
(No Author) : Juggling and Feats of Dexterity: Amazing Acts of Skill and Subtlety for the Domestic Arena London: Letts 1992. (Pocket Entertainments Series) 96p hb, dj, as new PKM 43139 £4.5
Leppmann, Franz : 1000 Worte Deutsch: Ein Sprachführer für Nachdenkliche. Berlin: Ullstein 1930. 10 seperately bound booklets in folder, boxed 306p, illustrations, index, VG PKM 43041 £18
Gilliatt, Penelope : Unholy Fools: Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace: Film & Theatre. London: Secker & Warburg 1973. x 373p large half cloth, marbled cover, index, VG PKM 42961 £7.2
Herbert, A P : What a Word! Being an Account of the Principles and Progress of "the Word War" conducted in "Punch". London: Methuen 1935. xi 286p cloth, cover sl dusty & worn, appendices, index, pp142 -3 browned on aaccount of newspaper cuttings, otherwise VG PKM 42834 £10.8
Benstead, C R : Alma Mater. London: Muller 1951. 152p hb, dj, comic history of Cambridge, cartoons by Edgar Northfield, dj sl marked, VG PKM 42313 £7.2
(No Author) : Pit Your Wits: Quizzes, Brain-Teasers and Personality Tests for All the Family. New York: Reader's Digest 1980. 63p tall pb, puzzles, 'IQ tests' etc with answers, VG+ PKM 42058 £6.3
Smith, Kathleen : Devils' Delight. London: Duckworth 1968. 159p black cloth, dj, satire about a 'devils' conference', dj sl torn, VG first ed PKM 42032 £9
Travers, Ben : Rookery Nook. London: Allen 1977. 253p hb, dj, comic novel, VG PKM 42029 £9
(No Author) : Dew Yew Keep a'Troshin! Old Barney's Broadcasts. Vol 1. Ed. Keith Skipper, Illus Chad. Fakenham: Jim Baldwin 1984. 75p card cover, illus, VG PKM 41770 £6.3
Erasmus, Desiderius : Éloge de la Folie par Didier Érasme de Rotterdam avec les dessins de Hans Holbein. Paris: Cluny 1944. xxvii 164p pb dj, illustrations, VG PKM 41321 £10.8
Laincel, Louis de : Voyage humouristique dans le Midi: études historiques et littéraires. Paris: Lemerre 1869. 502p nice half calf with gilt and marbled cover, author inscription on title opage, frontisp, on Suze-la-Rousse, Vaucluse, Avignon, Orange, etc, in excellent condition PKM 41188 £52
Wallace, Robert [Ed]: Sometime the Cow Kick Your Head: the Biennial of Light Verse and Witty Poems. Light Year '88/9. Cleveland: Bits 1988. 235p russet cloth, dj, illustrated by Bonnie Jackson, poems by Alfred Dorn, Marian Gleason, Judson Jerome & many others, index, as new PKM 40443 £9
Buchwald, Art : How much is that in Dollars? (Illustrated by Laszlo Matulay) Cleveland: World Publishing 1961. 255p cloth dj quite nice, VG, first edition PKM 39477 £5.62
Scarron : Le Roman comique. (Nouvelle édition revue sur les meilleurs textes) Paris: Garnier 1940. 412p pb, cover missing, first section loose, pages clean PKM 39410 £7.2
Larson, Gary : The PreHistory of the Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit. London: Futura 1991. 288p pb sm quarto, illustrations, VG PKM 39232 £13.5
Serwuschok, Ingolf ; Dölle, Christine : Der Besser Wessi. Leipzig: Forum 1991. 56p pb sm booklet, illustrations, VG PKM 39148 £5.4
Alington, Cyril : Strained Relations. London: Macmillan 1922. viii 238p brown cloth, a bit worn but tight, paper title label to spine, humourous novel, VG+ first edition PKM 38938 £10.8
Grossmith, George ; Grossmith, Weedon : Diary of a Nobody. London: Pan 1946. 171p red cloth, dustjacket largely present (spine fragile), gilt lettering to spine & cover bright, illustrations, VG PKM 38485 £7
Gascoigne, Bamber : Murgatreud's Empire. London: Cape 1972. 191p hb, satirical novel, VG+ first edition PKM 38480 £10.8
[Leacock, Stephen]; Várová-Rejsková, Zdenka : Stephen Leacock and the Art of Humour. Prague: Charles University Press 1986. (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica Monographia) 112p large pb, figures in text, index, bibliogr, précis in Hungarian, VG+ PKM 38471 £10.8
Leray, Y ; Pradeilles, A et al: This Quiet Revolution. Paris: Longman 1980. 175p large pb, lighthearted look at the development of computers, cartoon illustrations, inscribed by two of the authors, spine sl dulled, VG PKM 38428 £15
Beerbohn, Max : And Even Now. London: Heinemann 1920. 320p buff cloth, paper title label to spine (damaged), binding loose, cover scuffed & grubby, well-used ex lib copy, good 1st ed, text clean PKM 38386 £7.2
James, Clive : Brilliant Creatures. London: Picador 1984. 317p pb, debut novel, spine sl creased, VG PKM 38347 £3.6
Roberts, Michael [Ed]: The Faber Book of Comic Verse. Third Impression. London: Faber 1943. 384p orange cloth, purple dustjacket (spine dull) indices, VG+ and clean, war economy paper PKM 38101 £10
Gregory, Richard : The Intelligent Eye, with 3D Stereo Illustrations. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1970. 192p paperback, 3D glasses included, VG+, a nice copy PKM 37990 £7
Carroll, Lewis : The Complete Works, with Tenniel's Drawing. London: Nonesuch 1940. 1165p red buckram, 2nd impression, front inner hinge a bit weak, spine a bit faded, VG PKM 37938 £13.5
Busch, Wilhelm : Von mir über mich. Mit Bildern von ihm selbst. Wiesbaden: Insel 1956. (Insel-Bücherei) 45p sm hb with protective paper sleeve, real label on front, postscript by Hans Balzer, VG, 21. - 60. Tausend PKM 37838 £3.6
Huizinga, Leonhard : Adrian und Oliver: Die wahre Geschichte bettelarmer, jedoch manierlicher Zwillinge aus leidlich guter Familie. München: Droemer 1950. 317p cloth, dj, illustration on cover, illustrations by Franziska Bilek, VG PKM 37767 £6.3
Wellek, Albert : Witz, Lyrik, Sprache: Beiträge zur Literatur- und Sprachtheorie mit einem Anhang über den Fortschritt der Wissenschaft. Bern: Francke 1970. 253p cloth dj, index, notes, tables, VG PKM 37648 £5.4
Busch, Wilhelm : Die fromme Helene und andere Bildergeschichten. Olten: Fackel 1964. 162p cloth dj, nice edition with illustration on front, includes: Das gestörte Rendezvous; Der Katzenjammer am Neujahrsmorgen; Der schöne Ritter; Der hastige Rausch, illustrations, VG PKM 37512 £9
Busch, Wilhelm : Abenteuer eines Junggesellen und andere Bildergeschichten. Olten: Fackel 1964. 163p cloth dj, nice edition with illustration on front, includes stories: Aus den Beiträgen zu den "Fliegenden Blättern", illustrations, VG PKM 37511 £9
Busch, Wilhelm : Balduin Bählamm und andere Bildergeschichten. Olten: Fackel 1965. (first edition) 159p cloth dj, nice edition with illustration on front, stories include: Die kühne Müllerstochter, Die Prise; Der Wurstdieb; Der Schreihals; stories Aus den "Münchner Bilderbogen", illustrations, VG PKM 37510 £9
Müller-Marein, Josef : Deutschland deine Westfalen: In Gottes eigenem Pumpernickelland. Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe 1972. 194p sqare cloth dj, illustrations by Beate Rebhuhn, ink writing on back board, otherwise as new PKM 37365 £5.4
Brennglas, Adolf [Ed]: Komischer Volkskalender für 1847. Faksimiledruck der Originalausgabe. Berlin: Nationales Druckhaus 1969. vii 122p sm hb 17cm, ink markings on several pages, many illustrations, postscript by Hans Henning, article laid in, VG PKM 37361 £8
Röhl, Ernst : Deutsch - Deutsch: Ein satirisches Wörterbuch. Berlin: Eulenspiegel 1991. 103p small hb, boxed, nice cover, as new PKM 37359 £6
Busch, Wilhelm : Fipps, der Affe. München: Bassermann 1911. 89p cloth with monkey/apple (Affe/Apfel) illus, cloth sl dusty, otherwise very nice edition, illustration on cover, illustrations, VG PKM 37255 £6.3
Westphalen, Joseph : Von deutscher Bulimie: Diagnose einer Fressgier; Vergebliche Streitschrift gegen die deutsche Einheit. München: Knesebeck & Schuler 1990. 87p pb, illustrations, VG PKM 37184 £6.3
Bemmann, Helga [Ed]: Immer um die Litfass-Säule rum: Gedichte aus sieben Jahrzehnten Kabarett. Berlin: Henschel 1972. 399p hb, many photogr plates (a few duplicated due to binding error), index, a few ink markings, otherwise VG PKM 37154 £8.1
Rauch, Carl : Heiteres aus der Welt des Buches. Zürich: Classen 1962. 106p hb, illustrations by Günter Canzler, texts on writers, readers and works, VG PKM 37153 £5.4
Wagenbach, Klaus ; Herzbruch, Barbara et al: Freibeuter 27: Thema: Fröhliche Wissenschaft. Berlin: Wagenbach 1986. 157p large pb, texts by Erich Fried, Francois Furet, Ingeborg Bachmann, Rudolf Virchow, Otto Schily, Antonio Fian, Juan Goytisolo, and many more, many photos, as new PKM 36923 £7.2
Chesterton, G K : Pater Brown und das blaue Kreuz: Die besten Geschichten aus " Die Unschuld des Pater Brown". Zürich: Diogenes 1980. 260p pb, VG PKM 36895 £3.6
Fenn, George Manville [Ed]: The World of Wit and Humour. London: Cassell 1890. xv 480p sm 4to format, quarter blue leather, red & gilt title panel to spine, compendium of jokes and humourous anecdotes, figures in text, outer spine hinge opening but spine still in place, binding not affected PKM 36462 £16
Seaman, Owen [Introd]: Pictures from "Punch". Vol 1. London: Office of the Punch 1910. vii 4to format, red cloth fresh, medallion w/ Punch kicking The World, first volume only, an excellent copy PKM 35824 £21.6
Phillips, Hubert : Word Play. London: Penguin 1945. (Ptarmigan) 128p pb, sl yellowed, first edition, VG PKM 35814 £4.5
Dickens, Charles : A Curious Catalogue. (no imprint) 1920. a postcard (unused) which shows a picture of Dickens' birthplace in Portsmouth and prints a text which uses all the titles of his books. Curious PKM 35792 £10.8
Guy, Ray : That Far Greater Bay. Newfoundland: Breakwater 1977. 147p large pb, vignettes of Newfoundland life, VG- PKM 35244 £6.3
Walsh, Colin ; Thomas, Neil : Still Crazy ... About Sport. Cambridge: Granta 1982. [80]p landscape pb, illus, VG PKM 35196 £5.4
Sutherland, David [Ed]: The Intelligent Man's Guide to Bog Graffiti. London 1982. [96]p pb, illus, cover edges beginning to wear PKM 35060 £4.5
[Cameron, James]: Tobersnorey. A Rollicking Tour in the Land of the Gael. By Rag, Tag, and Bobtail, Author of Stronbuy. New Edition. Edinburgh: MacNiven & Wallace 1878?. 112p many illus, green illus paper cover, both coves detached, VG PKM 35005 £12
Buchanan-Taylor, W : Shake It Again. Boston: Heath 1943. 263p blue cloth, dj, inscribed by author 'To (not too) Low "The daddy of them all" with due obeisance - which means low bows - from Bucky 1944', collection of anecdotes, sequel to 'Shake the Bottle', 32 halftone plates, index, typescript errata laid in, V PKM 34384 £10.8
Carroll, Lewis : The Collected Verse. London: Macmillan 1932. xiv 446p blue cloth w/ gilt monogram on cover, gilt lettering to spine, teg, frontisp, illustrations inc John Tenniel, Henry Holiday, etc: This is a first edition in a "watered" state leading to some warping of front board, soiling on spine, and slight wa PKM 34311 £9
Butler, Samuel : Erewhon, or Over the Range. New and Revised Ed. London: Fifield 1913. xviii 324p green cloth, black lettering to spine, clean and firm copy PKM 33582 £7
Ketcham, Hank : Dennis the Menace... Here comes Trouble. London: Fawcett 1963. (Gold Medal) 132p pb, yellow edges, cartoons, the original not the British impostor, VG PKM 33013 £4
Ketcham, Hank : Wanted: Dennis the Menace. London: Fawcett 1956. (Gold Medal) 132p pb, yellow edges, cartoons, the original not the British impostor, VG PKM 33012 £3.6
Read, Charles [Ed]: La Satyre Ménippée, ou, La Vertu de Catholicon, selon l'édition princeps de 1594. Paris: Flammarion 1876?. (Nouvelle Bibliothèque Classique des Éditions Jouaust) xxiv 322p paper wrapper, intro by ed. incl repro of 1621 ed titlepage, apparatus & notes, cover worn & fragile, pages roughly cut PKM 31449 £18
Kindermann, Heinz : Die Karikatur als Quelle der Publikumsforschung. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1975. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Publikumsforschung) 40p+38p plates, wrappers, 86 repro plates, VG PKM 30958 £10.8
Thurber, James : Thurber Country. London: Penguin 1953. 255p pb, humorous anecdotes, cartoon sketches throughout, cover sl creased, otherwise VG PKM 30483 £3.6
Jimenez, Juan Ramon : Españoles de Tres Mundos: Viejo Mundo, Nuevo Mundo, Otro Mundo (Caricatura Lírica). (1914 - 1940). Buenos Aires: Losada 1942. 170p pb, paper wrapper, sketches of 61 Spanish-speaking savants & intellectuals, front hinge opening otherwise VG PKM 27721 £43.2
Taylor, Wilfred : Scot Free: A Book of Gael Warnings. London: Reinhardt 1954. vii 168p cloth, index, inscription on tp, VG PKM 27429 £9
Shaw, Bernard : Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy. London: Penguin 1946. [xl] 286p pb, VG, nice copy PKM 27168 £2.7
Sutherland, James [Ed]: The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. 1st ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1975. x 382p blue cloth with gilt title, dj, 484 anecdotes from the 7th to 20th centuries, bibliogr, indices, VG PKM 26728 £7.2
Lynn, Kenneth [Ed]: The Comic Tradition in America: An Anthology. London: Gollancz 1958. xvi 464p burgundy cloth, dj (sl soiled), extracts from writings of Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, A B Longstreet, Edgar Allan Poe, Davy Crockett, Joseph Baldwin, Herman Melville, Mark Twain and Henry James among others, inscribed by Tony Tanner, VG PKM 25066 £13.5
Sutherland, Douglas : The English Gentleman. London: Penguin 1980. viii 98p pb, intro by Sir Iain Moncreiffe, illus by Timothy Jaques, VG PKM 25024 £4.5
Lester, G H : The Laws of Motion: A Dialogue. Reprint from the Mathematical Gazette December 1927. New York: Mathematical Association of America 1927. 6p sewn, card wrapper, imagined dialogue between Newton and a confused student with prep to write, inscribed by author (with the perpetrator's compliments), cover sl browned otherwise VG PKM 24958 £10.8
[Twain, Mark]; Lynn, Kenneth : Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor. Boston: Little, Brown & Co 1959. [xiii] 300p hb, plates, index, neat marginal pencil marks, front cover sl soiled PKM 23783 £10.8
Nash, Ogden : Family Reunion. London: Dent 1951. xiii 146p cloth dj (sl spotting and damage to edges), VG PKM 23753 £6.3
Brown, Hosanna : I Spy, You Die. London: Gollancz 1984. 184p hb dj, almost as new PKM 23728 £6
Crump, C G : The Red King Dreams 1946 - 1948. London: Faber 1931. 384p mixed cloth (front cover red, back cover green, spine black), very crude tape repair because of torn hinges, binding loose, sl foxing to eps, Boots label, first ed: Frith College, Universal Instruction Co, Weston Poggs University etc: PKM 23251 £7.2
Sonnenberg, Ben [Ed]: Performance and Reality: Essays from Grand Street. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1989. x 374p large pb, 24 essays reprinted from Grand Street magazine, hardly used PKM 22963 £9
Hoffnung, Gerard : Musical Chairs. London: Dobson 1958. 50p 17cm cloth dj, cartoons, VG PKM 22894 £7.2
Baldwin, Joseph : The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches. New York: Sagamore 1957. (American Century) xii 244p large pb, intro by William Owens, few faint pencil markings otherwise VG PKM 22876 £6.3
Barsley, Michael [Ed]: The Phoenix Book of Modern American Humour. London: Phoenix 1956. 256p cloth dj (sl soiled), intro by Bernard Braden, extracts from authors such as Thurber, Don Marquis, Damon Runyon, Alexander Woolcott, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash et al, and some illus by authors, VG PKM 22865 £7.2
Lancaster, Osbert : Drayneflete Revealed. 1st ed. London: Murray 1949. x 70p cloth dj (in two pieces and decayed), illus by author, VG PKM 22847 £10.8
Aurand, Monroe : Little-Known Facts about Bundling in the New World. Illus ed. Harrisburg: Aurand 1938. 32p stapled, illus, a coy little tract in defence of chaste bed-sharing by courting couples prior to marriage, sl foxed but otherwise VG PKM 22551 £14.4
Shutter, Leonard : The Letters of Emma. 1st edition. London: Epworth 1933. 128p cloth dj (embossed paper, sl worn), inscription by 'Emma' on front free endpaper, marginally yellowed but otherwise VG PKM 22236 £18
Hokinson, Helen : The Ladies, God Bless 'Em!. New York: Dutton 1950. 16p plus 76 pages w/ illus, 4to hb, dj (marginally worn), a posthumous collection of the cartoonist's work, VG PKM 20671 £6.3
Thoma, Ludwig : Der Postsekretär im Himmel und andere Geschichten. Berlin: Ullstein 1914. (Ullstein Bücher) 179p red cloth 15cm, spine hurt, binding soft, worn PKM 19690 £5.4
Hazlitt, William : Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Oxford University Press 1920. (World's Classics) xiii 248p green cloth, VG+ PKM 18353 £7.2
Thackeray, William Makepeace : Contributions to Punch, etc. (Works of W M Thackeray, Vol 14) London: Nelson 1900. 639p india paper, full calf, spine gilt and intact, aeg, frontisp, nice, a lovely copy PKM 17842 £10.8
Hood, Thomas : Comic Annual for the Year 1833. (The Remains of) London 1833. vi (of xii) 174p but most of the un-paginated full page illus have been removed, also also 2 or 3 paginated pages missing, original cover front and back still tolerable, bookblock detached, spine also OK: PKM 17543 £7.2
Belloc, Hilaire : Selected Cautionary Verses. London: Penguin 1958. 181p pb, illus Bentley, VG PKM 17532 £4.5
Hoffnung, Gerard : The Penguin Hoffnung. London: Penguin 1963. 86p pb, VG PKM 17523 £4
Pocock, Guy ; Bozman, M M [Eds]: Modern Humour. A Nosegay of Contemporary Wit. Dent / Everyman 1940. 367p orange cloth library stamp, firm and clean PKM 17304 £10.8
Morgenstern, Christian : Galgenlieder, neben dem Gingganz. 60 Illus von Paul Erni. Zürich: Rascher 1946. 88p cloth, old tape maks on spine, clean and firm copy PKM 16098 £5.4
(No Author) : Essays, Mock-Essays and Character Sketches. Reprinted from the Journal of Education. London: Rice 1905. x 365p red buckram, fresh copy, with contributions by Tollemache, Farrar, Mark Pattison, E E B, Sophie Bryant, etc PKM 16059 £9
Meredith, George : An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit. London: Constable 1934. 105p green cloth, nice copy PKM 15864 £5.4
Brooke-Taylor, Tim ; Oddie, Bill : The Goodies Book of Criminal Records. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1975. 86?p hb, illus throughout, English humour PKM 15246 £6.3
Brooke-Taylor, Tim ; Oddie, Bill : The Goodies File. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1975. 86?p hb, illus throughout, English humour PKM 15245 £6.3
Herbert, A P : Wisdom for the Wise: Being "Tinker, Taylor ... A Child's Guide to the Professions" and "The Wherefore and the Why". London: Methuen 1930. 100p cloth gilt fresh, first pub in Punch, fine, a bright and fresh copy PKM 14883 £6.3
Grigson, Geoffrey [Ed]: Faber Book of Nonsense Verse. London: Faber 1979. 352p hardback with yellow dj, VG+, with school stamps PKM 14040 £12
Sellar, W C ; Yeatman, R J : 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. Illus J Reynolds. London: Methuen 1960. xii 115p hb, worn dustjacket, VG: Hilarious PKM 13597 £8
Rangemore, Roger (?) : This Merrie English. First Slips in Literature. London: Epworth 1954. 96p hb, dj, illus (Sillince) VG+ PKM 13594 £6
Sellar, W C ; Yeatman, R J : And Now All This. Being Vol 1 of the Hole Pocket Treasury of Absolutely General Knowledge. London: Methuen 1936. 120p cloth, original dj (sl yellowed, some loss of back top edge), illus, VG PKM 13484 £7.2
Herbert, A P : Laughing Ann and other Poems. Illus G Morrow. London: Fisher Unwin 1925. 121p cloth, nice PKM 13467 £7.2
Lancaster, Osbert : Etudes 1957/1958. New Pocket Cartoons. London: Murray 1958. 48p hb, dj, illus, VG+ PKM 13438 £6
(No Author) : The Book of Humorous Poetry. Edinburgh: Nimmo 188?. xvi 464p buckram, teg, firm copy, VG, nice PKM 13436 £8
Thackeray, William Makepeace : The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. A Series of Lectures. London: Smith, Elder & Co 1866. 341p cloth (printed) sl soiled, new endpapers, front hinge yawning, (first pub 1853) PKM 13356 £5.4
Lilly, William : Four English Humourists of the 19th Century. London: Murray 1895. xxiii 192p cloth, index, VG+. Lectures on Dickens (Democrat), Eliot (Poet), Thackeray (Philosopher), Carlyle (Prophet) PKM 13338 £10.8
Smith, Albert : Sketches of the Day (1st Series) in Three Parts. Profusely illus by Gavarni, Henning & Gilbert. London: Ward, Lock & Co 1860. 107p 119p viii 112p 13,5cm, papercovered boards with colour illus top board and spine, hinges hurt w/ very little loss, bookplate, lovely illus, special indeed: Part 1: The Flirt; Part 2: The Natural History of Evening Parties; Part 3: The Natural History PKM 12996 £32.4
Fenn, George Manville : The World of Wit and Humour. London: Cassell 1880. xv 480p decor cloth, front panel loss of colour due to water (?), illus throughout with 10 plates and numerous illus in text, a grand sampler with texts by Sala, A Ward, Jerrold, Lever, Harte, O W Holmes, Twain, Lowell, etc, many not signed. The first 10 PKM 12947 £14
Bateson, F W : English Comic Drama 1700 - 1750. Oxford University Press 1929. 158p cloth, bibliogr, VG PKM 12742 £10.8
Janicka, Irena : The Comic Elements in the English Mystery Plays against the Cultural Background (particularly Art). Poznan 1962. (Academy Proceedings) 119p card cover, many illus, index, on the relationship between drama and plastic arts (misericords etc), author letters, VG PKM 12308 £14.4
(No Author) : Conversations-Lexikon des Witzes, Humors und der Satire. Herausgegeben von einer Gesellschaft Humoristen. 1. Band. Altona: Verlags=Bureau (A Prinz) 1905. 479p half cloth, lib stamp, kuriös and alphabethisch, letters A to E only PKM 11552 £25.2
Dowley, Tim [Ed]: Taking Off. An Anthology of Parodies, Send-Ups and Imitations. London: Methuen 1984. 259p hb, dj, VG+ PKM 11300 £8.1
Augarde, Tony : The Oxford Guide to Word Games. Oxford University Press 1984. (Guild Publishing) 240p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+: Riddles, Puns, Crosswords, Scrabble and a chapter on Lewis Carroll PKM 10304 £9
Lowell, James Russell : The Biglow Papers. With Additional Notes, an Enlarged Glossary, and Coloured Illustrations by George Cruikshank. 2nd English Edition. London: Hotten 1861. viii 200p 17cm, 3 colour plates, modern cloth binding, text clean (one or two pages old marginal repair), but lacking leaf D4 PKM 10068 £16
Curtis, George William : The Potiphar Papers. New York: Harper 1869. 214p plates, foot & head of spine minor loss, a firm & fresh copy PKM 10015 £25.2
Shipley, Arthur : Furia Infernalis Linn. Offprint 1922. 3p offprint, VG: "parasites fabuleux" PKM 194 £10.8
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