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Category: Humor


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A Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of the 1960s
 by Humphrey Carpenter
Price: US $12.00
ISBN #: 1422350150
Binding: 
Book Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: very good+
Pub Date: 2000
2002 printing. Lightest shelf wear. First printing, full number line. 8vo, 391 pp. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic trackin... Details
A Mother Goose for Antique Collectors
 by Alice Van Leer Carrick; Kenneth Allen Robinson
Price: US $18.00
ISBN #: B002RTHXLQ
Binding: 
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: good
Edition: Second printing
Pub Date: 1928
edges sunned, remains of small label to front free endpaper, else clean copy; dj spine sunned, 1/2 cm of top spine tip missing, some chipping and crea... Details
It's Up To You
 by Hugh McHugh; Gordon Grant, illustrator
Price: US $15.00
ISBN #: B000HWFB1O
Binding: 
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket
Edition: First printing
Pub Date: 1902
light shelf wear to the book, covers stained/soiled, previous owner's inscriptions; no jacket. Deckled edges, all illustrations present and correc... Details
Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington, and Others of the Family
 by B.P. Shillaber, (editor)
Price: US $25.00
ISBN #: 
Binding: 
Book Condition: Good
Edition: First edition
Pub Date: 1854
tips worn, corners bumped. Mrs. Partington was the creation of Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber. Prior to joining the Boston Post Shillaber, a New Hampshi... Details
New Hampshire (Stories and Picture arranged by Keith Jennison)
 by Keith Jennison
Price: US $15.00
ISBN #: B000ESLBSI
Binding: 
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: very good
Pub Date: 1961
Signed. Light shelf wear to the book; more to tips, corners, and edges of the jacket. Signed by the author. First published by Henry Holt in 1944. 8vo... Details
Nonsense Songs
 by Edward Lear
Price: US $12.00
ISBN #: B001RM5GE0
Binding: 
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: good
Pub Date: 1965
Eleventh printing of this edition: 1969. light wear to tips, corners and edges of book and a bit more to the jacket which is chipped, soiled, a closed... Details
Pictures of Life and Character [from Punch]
 by Leech, John
Price: US $20.00
ISBN #: B00089W6I2
Binding: 
Book Condition: Good
Pub Date: 0
edge wear and scuffing to the leather. A full color reproduction of the cartoon which appears on page 87, and was the pastedown to the original cloth ... Details
Spencer's Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations
 by Spencer, Albert J. (editor)
Price: US $20.00
ISBN #: B00AGM1QYG
Binding: 
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket, as issued
Edition: First edition
Pub Date: 1867
edges worn, hinges reglued, tight. Spencer's Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations. A collection of Comic Speeches and Dialogues, Humoro... Details
The 13 Clocks
 by James Thurber
Price: US $40.00
ISBN #: B0007JT4P6
Binding: 
Book Condition: Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
Edition: First edition
Pub Date: 1950
First printing. Wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket, previous owner nscriptions to front endpaper and half title page; jacket has four ... Details
The Girl in Blue
 by P. G. Wodehouse
Price: US $12.00
ISBN #: 0671208020
Binding: 
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: good
Pub Date: 1971
Second Printing. Edge wear to book, covers spotted, top edge dusty; dust jacket is darkened along edges and spine, chip to top of spine, several small... Details
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