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Nicolson, (Harold). The English Sense of Humour, An Essay. Dropmore Press, 1946.
Price: US$20.52 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Gilt tooled blue cloth with gilt dentiles. Printed on handmade paper with deccled edges Size: Octavo (standard book size). Slight wear to spine. Deckled edges (rough cut). slight wear to covers. Category: Humour; Literature & Literary. For further information on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 550 copies. Cloth, gilt cover-titles and device, gilt dentelles, 4to, 22 cm, [4], 70 pp. From the introduction: "The purpose of this essay is to enquire whether, in the wide landscape of the English temperament, there exists a special corner which can correctly be defined as " the English sense of humour." Are the English more sensitive than are other nations to certain aspects of the inconsequent or the incongruous ? Or is the English sense of humour little more than the temperamental reflection of such national characteristics as kindliness, tolerance, sentimentality, optimism, laziness, playfulness, childishness, dislike of extremes, and a desire for mental and emotional ease ? I shall consider whether the sense of humour is in fact an English monopoly and, if so, whether it is transitory or permanent. I shall try to define the level of consciousness at which it operates, I shall examine the stränge combination which it presents of complacency and difïidence, of the sardonic and the gentle. I shall investigate how far it is a protective mechanism and how far it is a mood assumed in order to economize mental or emotional effort. And in conclusion I shall seek to verify my assumptions by illustrations drawn from Punch, Edward Lear and Kavanagh." Copy No. 214. Covers a little duststained at edges and with minor bumps to edges and lower corners, otherwise Near Very Good. .
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Nicolson, Harold. The English Sense of Humour, an Essay. Dropmore Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth, no jacket, very good with slight shelf wear. Number 398 of only 550 copies.
Seller: Winged Monkey Books, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
Nicolson, Harold. The English Sense of Humour. The Dropmore Press, 1946.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 70pp. A Limited Edition of 550 copies of which this is no. 348. Blue cloth boards with gilt decoration to front cover and gilt titles to spine. Decorative edge to endpapers. Title to title-page in red. An essay on the English sense of humour.
Seller: Gallois Books, Bayonne, France
Nicolson, Harold. The English Sense of Humour. The Dropmore Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$32.33 + shipping
Description: 270mm x 200mm (11" x 8"). 70pp. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
NICOLSON, HAROLD.. The English Sense Of Humour. An Essay.. London; The Dropmore Press; 1946., 1946.
Price: US$33.41 + shipping
Description: First Limited Edition; Post 4to; pp. [iv], 70, (1); bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, front board decorated with gilt emblem, gilt stamped decoration inside edges of cover, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, very good copy. Printed on a hand press on paper hand made by J. Barcham Green of Maidstone. Limited edition of 550 numbered copies this being copy number 76.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Nicolson. Harold. The English Sense of Humour - Limited Edition. Dropmore Press 1946 (1st UK), 1946.
Price: US$35.92 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: British limited edition, first printing. No jacket as issued. Numbered 472 of 550. Large format. Blue boards with gold lettering to spine and gold decoration to front are near fine with minor pushing to corners.
Seller: CHRIS MARTIN MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, Pleasley, United Kingdom
NICOLSON, Harold.. The English Sense of Humour, An Essay.. , 1946.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 550 copies. The Dropmore Press, London. Hardback, blue cloth, gilt type to spine and small gilt motif to upper board. No wrapper. 70 pages. Letter-press printed on hand-made paper. Very clean and sound; a nice copy.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$61.57 + shipping
Description: [Essay on Humour] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[4] 70 [6]. Number 202 of 550 copies thus, letterpress printed on handmade paper by J. Barcham Green of Maidstone. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. All edges untrimmed. Small black stamp of the Times Book Club to rear pastedown. Boards lightly rubbed and bumped, with several marks and some soiling. Very good.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Nicolson. Harold. The English Sense of Humour. Dropmore Press 1946 (1st UK) 0, 1946.
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 58 of a limited edition of 525 (550) copies printed on Barcham Green handmade paper. Blue linen with gilt emblem on centre front and gilt spine titling. Still in cardboad slipcase. Fine (no d/w as issued)
Seller: CHRIS MARTIN MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, Pleasley, United Kingdom
Nicolson, Harold. The English Sense of Humour. The Dropmore Press, 1946.
Price: US$102.62 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Description: 1/1 UK Numbered Limited edition. This being 194 of 550 copies. Printed on a hand press using hand made paper by J. Barcham Green of Maidstone. Condition: Blue cloth covered boards with gilt emblem and titling. Deckled edge. Internally clean without scuffs or bumping. A beautiful copy. Size: 270mm x 200mm
Seller: Stephen Conway Booksellers, Halifax, United Kingdom