English Humour by Priestley J B (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American edition. Binding is Cloth on Boards, Book is in Near Fine Condition with no marks or tears, very clean. Dust Jacket is in Good Condition with a small tear and wrinkling on top edge. In this book the author analyses English humor as expressed by Chaucer to Chestert.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in good condition- with jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair Dust Jacket. Former owner's gift inscription, otherwise unmarked. Front cover bowed at outer edge. Dust jacket edgeworn with small tears, tattering and curling along upper edge. Binding firm. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 180 pages.5 X 7 inches Very Good. Some light foxing, Former owner's name and bookplate inside cover No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt decoration and type on cover, still bright.Solid square binding.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 208 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (4 colour) ; 26cm. Subjects: English wit and humour -- History and criticism. 3 Kg.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Publisher: Stein & Day, New York, 1976.First Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE+ hardcover book in NEAR FINE- dust-jacket. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 180 pages. No dustjacket. Clean dark green hardback binding and light wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Page-edges moderately yellowed, both free-endpapers are browned, light foxing to some pages and to page-edges o/w pages clean and tidy. (Another copy dated 1930 smells a bit musty and ink name to flyleaf but o/w in clean and tidy condition.).

First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Boards slightly stained. Remains well-preserved overall. Series: English Heritage Series. Physical description: xi, 180 pages ; 18cm. Subjects: English wit and humour -- History and criticism. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 208 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (4 colour) ; 26cm. Subjects: English wit and humour -- History and criticism. 1 Kg.

Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

First American edn. Small 4to, pp. 208. Index. Copiously illustrated in color and B&W. A tear in the margin of pp. 1111-112, o/w a VG tight copy in somewhat worn dj. An analysis of Engllish humor from Chaucer to Waugh.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 208 pages (pages 161 to 208 printed on blue paper), colour and black and white illustrations, fine condition with dust-wrapper (not price clipped). Book label of R & J Holdsworth on front end-paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn. M.Elaine Hancock (illustrator). First. A previous owner's name is written in the front.

First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Boards slightly stained. Remains well-preserved overall. Series: English Heritage Series. Physical description: xi, 180 pages ; 18cm. Subjects: English wit and humour -- History and criticism. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Longmans, Green and Co, 1929 hardback 180 pages. No dust jacket. First edition Green cloth with gilt decoration, slight stain to spine and neat inscription to fep but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd impression. Rebounded.Boards are worn and marked.A few inscriptions.Foxing.Tightly bound.180 pages.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

208p., b/w and colored illus., lightly chipped dj.

Condition: Very Good. Light foxing on a few pages but tight and clean. Dj has some small chips and tears.Hardcover. book.

Hardcover. Reprint. 208 p. Illustrations (some in color). Index. English Humour Originally published in 1929 as part of the English Heritage Series, this is a fascinating book charting the progression of English humour-from great writers to great illustrators. Priestley, the great English novelist, analyzes different the facets of English humor from Chaucer, Chesterton, Shakespeare, Gilbert, et al. in this scholarly, entertaining book. Chapters: The English Character, Clowns and Comedians, Comic Art, A Gallop and A Gossip, Three Novelists, Charles Lamb, Dickens, Shakespeare. Author: John Boynton Priestley, OM (September 13, 1894, Bradford, England-August 14, 1984, Stratford-upon-Avon) was an English writer and broadcaster. Priestley was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and by the age of thirty had established a reputation as a humorous writer and critic. His first major success came with a novel, The Good Companions (1929), but he became better known as a dramatist. Without doubt, his best-known play is An Inspector Calls (1946). This was later made into a film starring Alastair Sim (1954). His novel Angel Pavement (1930) further established him as a successful popular novelist, but his plays are more varied in tone, several being influenced by J.W. Dunne's theory of time, which plays a part in the plots of Dangerous Corner (1932) and Time and the Conways (1937). He married the archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes, with whom he co-wrote some minor works. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge tears and chips.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper has some mild edge wear but is still in as new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. English humour is a peculiar national characteristic, very ifferent from Gallic wit, the American wisecrack or the Jewish joke. Not surprisingly it is often a cause of mystification in people of other nations. In this scholarly yet entertaining book a great English novelist - himself the creator of some notable comic characters in fiction and drama - analyses English humour as expressed in the writings of poets from Chaucer to Chesterton, dramatists from Shakespeare to W. S. Gilbert and novelists from Fielding and Sterne to Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh. There is a special chapter on feminine humour and another on clowns and comedians. The book concludes with a forty-eight page gallery of English comic art, with percipient personal comments by the author. Ref AAA 3.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (xi) 180pp. Green buckram boards with gilt decorations to front cover and gilt titles to spine. Neat inked ownership inscription to ffep. Both front and rear feps browned. Boards lightly worn at extremities. Textblock clean tight and bright. A very pleasing copy.

Cloth Bound. Condition: Very Good. 1934 edition in very good+ condition. 180-page text in very good, tight condition. Light age-brownong of the blank end papers and outside edge of the textblock. Owner's address on front blank end paper. Binding in very good+, tight, clean condition. See photographs attached. (BM8).

Reprint, 1930. No inscriptions or signatures; free end papers a little browned; binding tight; dust jacket a little worn at edges, with browned spine; dust jacket not price-clipped. English Heritage series, with an introduction by Stanley Baldwin Used - Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Redelijk. Met opdracht op schutblad. Gebonden, 208 pp., 1e druk. Met illustraties. Uit collectie Igor Cornelissen. Engelse humor, letterbox mail.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Not Price Clipped. This is the First Edition. A very nice clean copy . E-mail for details. HARDBACK.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear, with wear and minor markings to book covers and colouring of page edges due to age. Still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

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no illustrations (illustrator). London, UK: Longmans, Green and Co. Very good condition-DJ discolored, some pencilling/Dust Jacket. 1929. 12mo., 180 pp. . Very good condition-DJ discolored, some pencilling/Dust Jacket.