World's Wit Humor (416 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.

Condition: Good. 1906. 290 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Volume III. Pages are in good condition with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. 1906. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Volume IX. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. 1906. No Edition Remarks. 283 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Volume VI. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean with bookplate rip on top of spine.

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Slight edge & cover wear. Slight parting to front hinge.

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Hardcover. First Edition. Green boards with blindstamped design on front and gilt titles on spine. Light, edge corner and surface wear. Book is square and securely bound and seems unread. VG to VG+. ; British; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pages; This is Volume VIII only. I have several other volumes on line. This volume includes British writers from Austen and Byron to Disraeli and Thackery.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Green boards with blindstamped design on front and gilt titles on spine. Light, edge corner and surface wear, with some fading on spine. Book is square and securely bound and seems unread. VG. ; Italian, Spanish; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 290 pages; This is Volume XIII only. I have several other volumes on line. This volume includes many Italian and Spanish writers such as: Boccaccio and Cellini, De Vega and Cervantes.

Condition: New.

hc. Condition: very good. 291 An encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. 1912 Edition of Vol. IV: American, of "An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of All Ages and Nations", 15 volumes with Portrait Frontispieces onion skin protected and many cartoons in some volumes. First published 1906. Managing Editor Lionel Strachey. No Jacket, as issued. Bound in full red cloth on boards with two black title panels to spine, gilt titles within. Light to moderate wear to corners and edges; hinges intact, sewn binding tight, solid and square, with endbands. Light to moderate tanning of pages and text block edges. Occasional page nicks, smudges, but rare. Former owner name on corner of verso of front loose endpaper. More than 1000 selections in this series from over 500 sources. all ages, all genres, all nationalities. This volume includes works of such authors as Charles B. Lewis, "M. Quad", (1842-1924); Robert Jones Burdette; Joel Chandler Harris; Eugene Fields; Edgar Wilson Nye, "Bill Nye"; Sam Walter Foss; up to Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1863-1930; and many more. 289 pages. 8 x 5.6 inches. 1912, Review of Reviews Company, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. 1912 Edition of Vol. VIII: British, of "An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of All Ages and Nations", 15 volumes with Portrait Frontispieces onion skin protected and many cartoons in some volumes. First published 1906. Managing Editor Lionel Strachey. No Jacket, as issued. Bound in full red cloth on boards with two black title panels to spine, gilt titles within. Light to moderate wear to corners and edges; hinges intact, sewn binding tight, solid and square, with endbands. Light to moderate tanning of pages and text block edges. Occasional page nicks, smudges, but rare. Former owner name on verso of front loose endpaper. More than 1000 selections in this series from over 500 sources. all ages, all genres, all nationalities. This volume includes works of such authors as Jane Austen (1775-1817); Sir Walter Scott; Charles Lamb; Captain Marryat; Thomas Moore, Trollope; Benjamin Disraeli; up to Thackeray (1811-1863); and many more. 292 pages. 8 x 5.6 inches. 1912, Review of Reviews Company, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. 1912 Edition of Vol. III of "An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of All Ages and Nations", 15 volumes with Portrait Frontispieces onion skin protected and many cartoons in some volumes. First published 1906. Managing Editor Lionel Strachey. No Jacket, as issued. Bound in full red cloth on boards with two black title panels to spine, gilt titles within. Light to moderate wear to corners and edges; hinges intact, sewn binding tight, solid and square, with endbands. Light to moderate tanning of pages and text block edges. Occasional page nicks, smudges, but rare. Former owner name on corner of verso of front loose endpaper. More than 1000 selections in this series from over 500 sources. all ages, all genres, all nationalities. This volume includes works of such authors as James Bayard Taylor (1825-1878); Charles F. Browne, "Artemus Ward"; Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge; Frances Bret Harte; John Hay; up tp Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887) and many more. . 290 pages. 8 x 5.6 inches. 1912, Review of Reviews Company, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. 1912 Edition of Vol. II of "An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of All Ages and Nations", 15 volumes with Portrait Frontispieces onion skin protected and many cartoons in some volumes. First published 1906. Managing Editor Lionel Strachey. No Jacket, as issued. Bound in full red cloth on boards with two black title panels to spine, gilt titles within. Light to moderate wear to corners and edges; hinges intact, sewn binding tight, solid and square, with endbands. Light to moderate tanning of pages and text block edges. Occasional page nicks, smudges, but rare. Former owner name on corner of verso of front loose endpaper. More than 1000 selections in this series from over 500 sources. all ages, all genres, all nationalities. This volume includes works of such authors as B.P.Shillaber, "Mrs. Partington" (1814-1880); Joseph Baldwin; James Fields; James Russell Lowell; and many more up to Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain" (1835-1910). . 291 pages. 8 x 5.6 inches. 1912, Review of Reviews Company, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. 1912 Edition of Vol. VI: British, of "An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of All Ages and Nations", 15 volumes with Portrait Frontispieces onion skin protected and many cartoons in some volumes. First published 1906. Managing Editor Lionel Strachey. Introduction by Andrew Lang. No Jacket, as issued. Bound in full red cloth on boards with two black title panels to spine, gilt titles within. Light to moderate wear to corners and edges; hinges intact, sewn binding tight, solid and square, with endbands. Light to moderate tanning of pages and text block edges. Occasional page nicks, smudges, but rare. In this volume, last 4-5 pages have a tan stain on fore-edge of pages. Former owner name on corner of verso of front loose endpaper. More than 1000 selections in this series from over 500 sources. all ages, all genres, all nationalities. This volume includes works of such authors as Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400); John Skelton; Sir Thomas More; Shakespeare; Ben Jonson; Samuel Butler; Pepys; Defoe; Jonathan Swift; Alexander Pope; The Spectator and the Tatler; up to Lord Chesterfield ( 1694-1773); and many more 283 pages. 8 x 5.6 inches. 1912, Review of Reviews Company, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. 1912 Edition of Vol. IX: British, of "An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of All Ages and Nations", 15 volumes with Portrait Frontispieces onion skin protected and many cartoons in some volumes. First published 1906. Managing Editor Lionel Strachey. No Jacket, as issued. Bound in full red cloth on boards with two black title panels to spine, gilt titles within. Light to moderate wear to corners and edges; hinges intact, sewn binding tight, solid and square, with endbands. Light to moderate tanning of pages and text block edges. Occasional page nicks, smudges, but rare. Former owner name on verso of front loose endpaper. More than 1000 selections in this series from over 500 sources. all ages, all genres, all nationalities. This volume includes works of such authors as Charles Dickens (1812-1870); Irish Bulls; Tennyson; Charles Reade; Kingsley; Mary Evans; C.L.Dodgson, "Lewis Carroll"; R.L.Stevenson; Nursery Rhymes; Rudyard Kipling; Lionel Strachey; and many more. 292 pages. 8 x 5.6 inches. 1912, Review of Reviews Company, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. 1912 Edition of Vol. XII: German of "An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of All Ages and Nations", 15 volumes with Portrait Frontispieces onion skin protected and many cartoons in some volumes. First published 1906. Managing Editor Lionel Strachey. Introduction by Brander Matthews. No Jacket, as issued. Bound in full red cloth on boards with two black title panels to spine, gilt titles within. Light to moderate wear to corners and edges; hinges intact, sewn binding tight, solid and square, with endbands. Light to moderate tanning of pages and text block edges. Occasional page nicks, smudges, but rare. Former owner name on verson of front loose endpaper. More than 1000 selections in this series from over 500 sources. all ages, all genres, all nationalities. This volume includes works of such authors as Eulenspiegel's Pranks (15th century); The Schildburghjers (published in the 16th century); Ephraim Lessing; Ercih Raspe; Friedrich Von Schiller; the Brothers Grimm; Heinrich Heine; up to George S. Viereck ( 1885- ); and many more. 290 pages. 8 x 5.6 inches. 1912, Review of Reviews Company, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. 1912 Edition of Vol. XI: French & Cartoons-International Caricature of "An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of All Ages and Nations", 15 volumes with Portrait Frontispieces onion skin protected and many cartoons in some volumes. First published 1906. Managing Editor Lionel Strachey. Introduction by Brander Matthews. No Jacket, as issued. Bound in full red cloth on boards with two black title panels to spine, gilt titles within. Light to moderate wear to corners and edges; hinges intact, sewn binding tight, solid and square, with endbands. Light to moderate tanning of pages and text block edges. Occasional page nicks, smudges, but rare. More than 1000 selections in this series from over 500 sources. all ages, all genres, all nationalities. This volume includes works of such authors as Alfred De Musset (1810-1857); Paul De Kock; Gautier; Augier and Sandeau; Victor Hugo; Alphonse Daudet; Francois Coppee; Edmond Rostand; up to Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1873- ); and many more. 280 pages. 8 x 5.6 inches. 1912, Review of Reviews Company, New York.