1. A’Beckett, Gilbert Abbott.

The Comic History of England. With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech.

Two Volumes in One Volume (complete set). London, Bradbury, Evans and Co., c.1850 14.5 cm x 22.3 cm. Volume I: XVIII, 320 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. / Volume II: 304 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. Original Hardcover with gilt decoration on spine and cover. Recently professionally repaired and restored binding with new endpapers and the saved original bookplate / exlibris of J. Henry H.V. Lane of Kings Bromley in Staffordshire to the pastedown. Gilted edge. Rubbed and sign of wear on cover and spine. Overall very good condition with firm binding and clean interior. Bookplate / Exlibris to pastedown. Inscribed on Augst 10,1879 by previous owner and embossed stamp marks by bookshop W.H.Smyth in London on endpaper.

2. Grabbe, Christian Dietrich.

Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung ! Lustspiel in drei Akten. Mit 12 Originalholzschnitten von Karl Thylmann.

Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915. 17 x 23 cm. 119 Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Halbpergament. Limitierte Auflage von 500 Exemplaren (Exemplar 455). Guter Zustand mit einigen wenigen äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren. Einige unschöne Einrisse im oberen Bereich der ersten drei Seiten.

3. Holmes, Oliver Wendell / Pyle, Howard.

The One Hoss Shay. With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle.

London, Gay and Bird, [1891]. 13,5 x 20 cm. 78 pages. Original Hardcover / Blindstamped leather. The wonderful binding with some stronger damage to the spine. The corners rubbed and bumped. Still firm and overall in good condition.

4. Kishon, Ephraim.

ABC der Heiterkeiten. / Der seekranke Walfisch. Illustriert von Rudolf Angerer.

Ungekürzte Ausgabe. Zwei Baende. Berlin, Ullstein, 1983-1984. 11.7 cm x 17.8 cm. 302, 152 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. German Edition.

5. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 12, No. 4, November 1987: The Sense of Humor.

Second Printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1993. 17 x 25.5cm. 128 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. Puntila, Max.

Der Lachende Pegasus: Literatenanekdoten. Mit 6 Illustrationen von Ise Billig.

München / Zürich, Piper, 1990. 12 x 19cm. 99 Seiten. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand, neuwertig. [Serie Piper, Band 847].

7. Wall, Mervyn.

The Complete Fursey – Two Novels: I. “Unfortunate Fursey” and II. “Return of Fursey”.

First Edition of the Sampler. Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1985. Octavo. 234 pages. Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some mild foxing only.