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1332793533.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2013mon0000130267Facsimile Publisher 2013-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1837 john harris edition on green cloth with missing spine cover Facsimile Publisher hardcover
1341983323.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
45383548like new. unknown
1390514943.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1015868118.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1140206230New. Brand new and still unused unknown
2111902158403044Zuiryuji N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 158p Size: 22cm Zuiryuji paperback
#[6764]kl. 8°: pi 4 2pi A-O8 P 4 -P4 gepag.: 4 4 2 230 pp. Gegraveerde titelpagina met vignet van Daniël Veelwaard naar L. Springer. Half leer mooi ex. Lit.: Mateboer 60 l Bundel zedelijke vertellingen waarvan de uitgever niet alleen hoopt dat ze de lezer zullen vermaken maar vooral ook dat ze hem zullen aansporen de goede voorbeelden die hier worden gegeven allen waare gebeurenissen na te volgen. unknown
1954314914Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg: Editions de l'Imprimerie Cooperative Luxembourgeoise 1954. Paperback. Two volumes boxed from an unnumbered run limited to 1400 paired sets box is broken but still useful. Volumes respectively: 265 295p. illustrated with numerous b&w portrait photos and an elaborate embossed portrait to both that appears verso in smart intaglio plus two different frontispiece portraits. We see no flaws beyond the also-elaborate box that could be fully restored no wreckage merely partings at weak joint-lines. Editions de l'Imprimerie Cooperative Luxembourgeoise paperback
17915752pp. small 8vo disbound; light foxing throughout. Dublin: P. Byrne 1888.<br/> <br/> unknown
048975London: N.p. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Cooke and Davenport. Quartos. 303 pages in two volumes. Contains 146 of 148 plates possibly as published. Absent are the last 2 plates in Volume II "Before and After" which were frequently left out due to their showing a couple just prior and after sex still fully clothed. Otherwise collates complete. Hardcovers bound full publisher's cloth with cover designs embossed in gilt. The bindings are worn and bumped and are now housed in clear mylar or acetate dust jackets. The front hinge of Volume I is cracking and a type of flexible glue appears to have been applied to prevent separation. Text blocks are sound. All edges gilt. Undated but appear to be from the 1840s-1850s. The title pages are printed in dark blue and red. Most if not all of the engravings have their tissue guards. There is no tissue guard at the page describing the final plates of Volume II "Before and After" and their is no evidence of plates being removed. <br/> <br/> N.p. hardcover
178302Japan. Late Edo period. Black and white woodblock printed sheet some wear at lower corners but still good. 16.7 x 22.4cm. This satirically themed sheet reflect popular culture during Edo period. The sheet is titled "A Debate between the Rich and the Poor" On it a rich person might say that going out for drinks at night and returning early in the morning is a waste of money while a poor person would respond by saying it is the best way to enjoy oneself - in other words live for the day instead of saving money for the future! <br> <br>Humour has always been appreciated highly by the Japanese public as demonstrated with the popularity throughout history of street entertainments plays and story telling. Close examination of this sheet offers many interesting insights into Edo popular humour. . unknown
231913W. J. Carroll aka Ame Perdue Melbourne 1925. 288 pp 12 bound issues Vol 3 coloured covers b&w illustrations boards flecked spine faded small split at base of spine else good copy in blue cloth boards. The original name was "Sparkle" with issues Nos. 1 to 12 then name changed to "PEP" for issues Nos. 13 to 24. These were also sold in bound volumes as 'Vol 1 Nos 1 - 12' and 'Vol 2 Nos 13 - 24'. W. J. Carroll (aka Ame Perdue), Melbourne, 1925 hardcover
1856AQ28599Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers 1856. 24pp. Woodcut on title page. Title within ornamental border. Six bifolia unopened at head as issued. A trifle creased and dusty. A Glaswegian chapbook collection of succinct anecdotes on a remarkably diverse range of subjects from 'gipsy wit' to 'security against drowning'. Though often containing a modicum of useful wisdom some of the selections are designed merely to entertain for example under the heading 'Very Funny' one finds the following quip: 'Father do they light up railway carriages at night with gas ' 'No my dear with train oil. ' Presumably one had to be there. This edition one of several appearing at Glasgow and Alnwick in the mid-nineteenth century appears unrecorded by OCLC or COPAC. . 12mo. Printed for the booksellers unknown
1127OE0YFODLeather Bound. Good. London: 1814. Volumes II and III only of three volume set opens with Letter XXIV three quarter leather and marbled boards lacking about half of ext. leather spine strip on vol 2; still well-bound and complete first thus. Vol. 3 lacks back cover still complete thus. No reader remainder or ex-library marks. hardcover
18228125Edinburgh: Printed and published by D. Webster and Son 1822. FIRST EDITION 12mo pp. ii v i 324. Later half maroon roan purple textured cloth boards spine divided by double gilt rules lettered in gilt other compartments with central thistle tool in gilt edges sprinkled red. Some foxing repair to blank margin of title-page where ownership inscription was rubbed away. Binding a touch rubbed to extremities. Remnants of ink ownership inscription to title-page a few pencil notes to rear pastedown. The scarce first edition of this gathering of ‘Anecdotes Bon Mots Jests Puns and Droll Stories. which it is hoped will show that the Scots are possessed of some wit both in spirit and substance’ as the editor and publisher David Webster notes in his preface. He explains that this is a ‘miscellany not ill suited to its title “a haggis” which to our northern palates is a very agreeable dish although the materials of which it is composed are like old chaos jumbled together without order or regularity’. Library Hub and OCLC only note eleven copies in British and US institutions. Printed and published by D. Webster and Son hardcover
182626426Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin Cradock and Joy London 1826 1826. First edition. OCLC records ten copies including a second or variant issue. Some smudges and stains in the text; very good copy. 8vo later green half calf green cloth boards red morocco label gilt decorations and lettering t.e.g. others untrimmed. Half-title and errata leaf present. A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes including ones about Burns Byron Shelley Boswell and John Gay interspersed with occasional miscellaneous pieces such as the account of the "Hungry Poet" with two of his poems. Almost all the pieces are unsigned but at least two are attributed: A. Cunningham on the last moments of Roberts Burns and Walter Scott on the "Character of Lord Byron." There was a variant or probably second issue with the title augmented slightly to The Curious Book; or Literary Relics. Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826 unknown
1861059263London Uk: Henry G. Bohn 1861. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Frontispieces. Xviii 514 ; Xvi 523 Pp. Two Volumes. Third And Best Edition Corrected And With Additions. Three Quarter Maroon Morocco Over Marbled Boards Matching Edges And Endpapers Spine Ornately Gilt5 Bands Two Morocco Labels. Light Usage Hinges Tight No Marks Or Bookplates. <br/> <br/> Henry G. Bohn hardcover
175015136France c1750. Folio 457 by 330mm. Portable oak close stool folding into eighteenth century kaki paneled calf gilt brass clasps and catches. No. 1: The travelling bibliophile will never be inconvenienced again with this portable potty. Discreetly concealed within the bowels of a corpulent tome the covers ease open to reveal a comfortable commode beneath which a porcelain chamber pot may be placed. No. 2: Also suitable for the relief of the armchair traveler flushed with success who wishes to never leave the comfort of their library. Going on the go into a receptacle designed for purpose was invented by the Ancient Greeks and the earliest 'ourane' is dated to the sixth century BC. Concealing the chamber pot within a commode or closet however is a relatively recent nicety; both fashionable and practical until the invention of the water closet by Alexander Cummings in 1775 - based on a design created by Elizabethan Sir John Harrington. Samuel Prosser applied for and received the first patent for a 'plunger closet' in 1777. Thomas Crapper c1836-1910 has often been credited with the invention of the flushing lavatory but even though he was an esteemed plumber in his day this particular piece of urban legend would appear to a pile of. A wide variety of diverting reading material is offered separately. unknown
