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Liston's drolleries : a choice collection of tit bits, laughable scraps, comic songs, tales and recitations ... First [-fifth] collection.
- Text
- London : Printed and published by Duncombe, [1825?]
- 1825
- 1 Item
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Thackeray's English humourists and four Georges / Edgar F. Harden.
- Text
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, c1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
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The Best of modern humor / edited by Mordecai Richler.
- Text
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1983.
- 1983
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Berg Coll Friedman, BJ ZC6 B49 1983 Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Berg Coll Friedman, BJ ZC6 B49 1983 Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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Cutting edge, or, "Back in the knife-box, Miss Sharp" : Ned Sherrin's anthology of wit.
- Text
- London : J.M. Dent, 1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
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The way to wear'em : 150 years of Punch on fashion / Christina Walkley.
- Text
- London : P. Owen, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
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The meaning of liff / Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.
- Text
- London : Pan Books and Faber & Faber, 1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFB 87-98 Offsite More Morley / Robert Morley.
- Text
- London : Robson Books, 1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
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The Penguin dictionary of modern humorous quotations / compiled by Fred Metcalf.
- Text
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England : Viking, c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
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Hammer and tongues : a dictionary of women's wit and humour / [edited by] Michèle Brown and Ann O'Connor.
- Text
- London : Dent, 1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
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Died laughing, or, One last goodbye! / Richard De'ath.
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- London ; Boston : Unwin Paperbacks, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
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In & out : a lighthearted guide to contemporary society / by Neil Mackwood ; preface by Lord Burghersh ; drawings by Lucy.
- Text
- London ; New York : Debrett's Peerage, c1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
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The Fireside treasury of new humor / edited by Al Sarrantonio.
- Text
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c1989.
- 1989
- 2 Items
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Veins of humor. Edited by Harry Levin.
- Text
- Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1972.
- 1972
- 1 Item
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The Wit of the Spectator / foreword by Wallace Arnold ; edited by Christopher Howse.
- Text
- London : Century, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
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A treasury of British humor / edited, with an introduction, by Morris Bishop.
- Text
- New York : Coward-McCann, 1942.
- 1942
- 1 Item
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Myles before Myles : a selection of the earlier writings of Brian O'Nolan / Flann O'Brien (Myles na Gopaleen) ; selected and introduced by John Wyse Jackson.
- Text
- London : Grafton, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
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Shakespeare merriment : an anthology of Shakespearean humour / edited by Marilyn Schoenbaum.
- Text
- New York : Garland, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
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Last laughs : perspectives on women and comedy / edited by Regina Barreca.
- Text
- New York : Gordon and Breach, c1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
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The Female critick, or, Letters in drollery from ladies to their humble servants, anonymous. Iter lunare, or, A voyage to the moon, by David Russen. With a new introd. for the Garland ed. by William Graves.
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- New York, Garland Pub., 1972.
- 1972-1701
- 1 Item
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Nonsense books / by Edward Lear ; with all the original illustrations.
- Text
- Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1888.
- 1888
- 2 Items
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Harrap's book of humorous quotations / chosen and introduced by G.F. Lamb ; cartoons by Gren.
- Text
- London : Harrap, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
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Travelling light : Punch goes abroad / edited by Susan Jeffreys ; foreword by Barry Humphries.
- Text
- London : Grafton Books, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
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Innocent merriment : an anthology of light verse / selected by Franklin P. Adams ("F.P.A.")
- Text
- New York, NY : Whittlesey House, c1942.
- 1942
- 1 Item
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Private eye.
- Text
- London : Pressdram
- 1961-present
- 148 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text M-10 8995 Schwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Reference Desk Room 108 Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text M-10 8995 Schwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Reference Desk Room 108 Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text M-10 8995 Schwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Reference Desk Room 108 Not available - Please for assistance.How to make the best of things / W. Heath Robinson and Cecil Hunt.
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- London : Duckworth, 1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
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500 riddles and jokes / edited by C. Cunningham.
- Text
- St. Ives, Eng. : James Pike, 1970.
- 1970
- 1 Item
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The court wits of the Restoration : an introduction / by John Harold Wilson.
- Text
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1948.
- 1948
- 2 Items
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Arguments of Augustan wit / John Sitter.
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- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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Metaphysical wit / A.J. Smith.
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- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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A short trot with a cultured mind,through some experiences of a humorous nature. Illustrated by Hilary Knight.
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- New York, Simon and Schuster, 1956.
- 1956
- 1 Item
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Worse verse : from the Look! pages of the Sunday Times / edited by Allan Hall ; drawings by Mel Calman.
- Text
- [London] : Times Newspapers, [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
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Best music hall and other jokes / by Lawrie Webb ; jacket by Richard Hook, line illustrations by Derek Alder.
- Text
- London : Wolfe, 1971.
- 1971
- 1 Item
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Geordie 900 / [by Scott Dobson]
- Text
- Gosforth (41 Church Rd, Gosforth, Tyne and Wear NE3 1UE) : Geordieland Press, 1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAY B-9709 Offsite The Geordie book of beer / by Dick Irwin and Frank Graham.
- Text
- Newcastle upon Tyne : F. Graham, 1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAY B-9987 Offsite The unluckiest man in the world, and similar disasters / Mike Harding ; illustrated by Bill Tidy.
- Text
- London : Robson, 1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
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West Indian yarns, by 'X. Beke' [pseud.]
- Text
- Demerara [British Guiana] J. Thomson; London, E.A. Petherick, 1890.
- 1890
- 1 Item
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The Female tatler / edited and introduced by Fidelis Morgan.
- Text
- London : J.M. Dent ; Rutland, Vt. : C.E. Tuttle, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
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Honourable insults : a century of political invective / compiled by Greg Knight ; illustrated by John Jensen.
- Text
- London : Robson, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
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The East Anglian and his humour.
- Text
- Ipswich (Suff.), Anglian Publications [1966]
- 1966
- 1 Item
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Joke by joke to conversation : Sprechsituationen mit Witz gemeistert / Renʹe Bosewitz, Robert Kleinschroth.
- Text
- Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, c1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
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New perspectives on women and comedy / edited by Regina Barreca.
- Text
- Philadelphia : Gordon and Breach, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
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Eavesdroppings : [bizarre overheard remarks] / edited by Nigel Rees ; illustrated by Chris Winn.
- Text
- London ; Boston : Unwin Paperbacks, 1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
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Humor and transgression in Peacock, Shelley, and Byron : a cold carnival / Thomas H. Schmid.
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- Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
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Monty Python's flying circus [videorecording] / produced and directed by Ian MacNaughton ; conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
- Moving image
- Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, c1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 17 Offsite Sketches of Mr. Mathews's celebrated Trip to America : comprising a full account of his admirable lecture on peculiarities, characters, and manners : with the most laughable of the stories and adventures, and eight original comic songs ... / embellished with four elegant engravings, by Cruickshank [sic].
- Text
- London : Printed by and for J. Limbird, [1824?]
- 1824
- 3 Items
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The Penguin book of comedy sketches / edited by Frank Muir and Simon Brett.
- Text
- London : Penguin, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
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Punch.
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- [London, Punch Publications Ltd., etc.]
- 1841-2002
- 125 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *DX V. 188-189 (1935) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *DX V. 186-187 (1934) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *DX V. 184-185 (1933) Offsite Comedy / L.J. Potts.
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- New York : Capricorn Books, 1966.
- 1966
- 1 Item
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Seems like old times : a year in the life of Alan Coren / Alan Coren.
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- London : Robson, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
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Sketches of Mr. Mathews's celebrated trip to America [microform] : comprising a full account of his admirable lecture on peculiarities, characters, and manners : with the most laughable of the stories and adventures, and eight original comic songs / embellished with four elegant engravings by Cruickshank [sic].
- Text
- London : Printed by and for J. Limbird, [1824?]
- 1824
- 1 Item
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