ISBN: 9780236308002 - Treasury of Ribaldry (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 3rd Impression. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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New Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Slightly sun-toned spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxviii, 675 pages ; 21 cm. SubjectWit and humor. Literature ; Collections. Literature. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Impression. Treasury is defined as a book or person thought of as a valued source. Here we have both the book and the person, and valued is what they truly are. Well leave to the eminent poet, scholar, wit, and man of letters, Louis Untermeyer, to explain his interest in ribaldry, the subject of this delightful anthology. In the broadest sense, the worlds favorite humor has been a playful expression of primitive sensuality. It has, at times, been tinctured with self-mockery, a sort of protective derision, a comic exposure of what is condemned in public and gleefully practiced in private. The satisfactions of the body, from food to sex, are responsible for some of the wisest and wittiest as well as some of the most rollicking and ribald writing in literatureHere are about 300 separate ribald items, prose and poetry, arranged chronologically by the author (from Arnacreon-500 B.C. to late Twentieth century). Here are the naturals in ribaldry, taken from the works of Boccaccio, Chaucer, Villon, Rabelais, Balzac-and some surprises, by such talented folk as Cervantes, Defoe, Burns, Franklin, Byron, Maugham, Anderson, Mencken, Runyon, and a host of others. 676 pages. Dust jacket has rubbing and small closed tears to edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Anthology; Humour; Humour. ISBN: 0236308009. ISBN/EAN: 9780236308002. Inventory No: 278718.…

New Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Slightly sun-toned spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxviii, 675 pages ; 21 cm. SubjectWit and humor. Literature ; Collections. Literature. 1 Kg. …