500 Best Irish Jokes and Limericks
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0517127318
- ISBN 13
- 9780517127315
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Avene, New Jersey: Wings Books, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Anderson, Doug. Hard cover in very good condition with green boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; no price on jacket flap. * From the front jacket flap, ""Here are 500 of the very best one-liners, groaners, shaggy dogs and limericks that are around today. Whatever it is now, it began as an Irish joke. For Ireland is a joke factory, if ever a country was one. The witticism of Galway today is the wisecrack of Las Vegas in two or three years. . . .The greatest wits have been Irish: Swift, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw. Even the humor and satire of the early Irish bards were well know. Dr. Johnson said: ""The Irish are a very truthful race. They never speak well of one and other."" In the world at large everything may be serious, but not hopeless, while in Ireland everything may be hopeless, but not serious."" tever it is now, it began as an Irish joke. For Irez
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Details
- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001534
- Title
- 500 Best Irish Jokes and Limericks
- Illustrator
- Anderson, Doug
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0517127318
- ISBN 13
- 9780517127315
- Publisher
- Wings Books
- Place of Publication
- Avene, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Wit & Humor & Curiosities, Irish wit and humor
- Bookseller catalogs
- Wit & Humor & Curiosities;
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