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Forbidden limericks [microform].

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[New York, Beatitude press, 196-]

1960-1969

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The "Blue Peter" book of limericks; edited by Biddy Baxter and Rosemary Gill; with illustrations by Peter Firmin and Edward Lear.

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London, Pan Books [for the] British Broadcasting Corporation, 1972.

1972

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New comic limericks: laughable poems, by Ogden Nash [and others]; illustrated by Louis Marak.

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London, Roger Schlesinger, 1969.

1969

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Some limericks, collected for the use of students, & ensplendour'd with introduction, geographical index, and with notes explanatory and critical.

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New York, Grove Press [1967]

1967

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A little treasury of limericks fair and foul [compiled by] John Letts; illustrated by Ralph Steadman.

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London, Pan Books, 1973.

1973

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Clif's limerick calendar.

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Oakland, Calif., Rather Press.

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FormatTextCall number*KP (Rather) 74-440Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

The limerick; 1700 examples, with notes, variants, and index. Edited by G. Legman.

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New York, Bell Pub. Co. [c1969]

1969

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The decline and fall of the gibbon : through darkest history with pun and chimera / chronicled by James Roper ; with visual obbligato by Draper Hill.

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Memphis : Inadvertent Press, [1974]

1974

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The Canadian limerick book / Hugh Oliver, Keith MacMillan ; ill. by Roy Condy.

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Don Mills, Ont. : General Pub. Co., 1975.

1975

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La chevelure; a polyglot limerick.

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[Lexington, Ky., Polyglot Press, 1973]

1973

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The limerick makers / Jean Harrowven.

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London : Research Pub. Co., c1976.

1976

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The New limerick : 2750 unpublished examples, American and British / edited by G. Legman.

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New York : Crown Publishers, 1977.

1977

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The complete limerick book; the origin, history and achievements of the limerick, with over 400 selected examples. With 24 illus. by H. M. Bateman.

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New York, G. P. Putnam, 1925.

1925

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Limericks, too gross / Isaac Asimov and John Ciardi. 1st ed.

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New York : Norton, c1978.

1978

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Book of bawdy ballads.

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Paris, Olympia Press, 1957.

1957

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A grossery of limericks / Isaac Asimov and John Ciardi.

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New York : W.W. Norton, c1981.

1981

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The world's best dirty limericks / David M. ; drawings by Sergio Aragones.

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Secaucus, N.J. : L. Stuart, c1982.

1982

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The book of pigericks : pig limericks / by Arnold Lobel.

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New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, c1983.

1983

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E Bärner het Limerick gschribe : Limerick u kuurligi Gschichte / Werner Muster.

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Bern : Benteli, c1982.

1982

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The Penguin book of limericks / compiled and edited by E.O. Parrott ; illustrations by Robin Jacques.

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London : A. Lane, 1983.

1983

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The nonsense verse of Edward Lear / illustrated by John Vernon Lord.

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London : J. Cape, 1984.

1984

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The Richard Erdoes illustrated treasury of classic unlaundered limericks / introduction by Isaac Asimov.

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New York : Balsam Press, c1984.

1984

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The nonsense verse of Edward Lear / illustrated by John Vernon Lord.

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New York : Harmony Books, c1984.

1984

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Baseball history in limerick verse & in sketch / by D.C. Vogt.

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Milwaukee, Wis. (1403 So. 5 St., Milwaukee 53204) : Greenfield House, c1981.

1981

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Merry rhymes and stories, for merry little learners / with numerous laughable pictures.

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London : Ward, Lock and Tyler, [between 1865 and 1872]

1865-1872

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FormatTextCall numberArents SA 1227c (Bennett)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

Limericks / Michael Palin ; illustrated by Tony Ross.

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London : Hutchinson, 1985.

1985

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Some smiles : a little book of limericks / by Elizabeth Gordon ; with drawing to fit by M.T. Ross.

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Boston : W.A. Wilde, c1911.

1911

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FormatTextCall numberSc C 87-402Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Nonsensus : cross-referencing Edward Lear's original 116 limericks with eight holograph manuscripts and comparing them to printed texts from the 1846, 1855 and 1861 versions : together with a census of known copies of the genuine first edition / compiled by Justin G. Schiller ; with introductory remarks by Vivien Noakes.

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Stroud, Gloucestershire : Catalpa Press ; New York, N.Y. :Distributed in the U.S.A. by Justin G. Schiller, 1988.

1988

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Oḍiā laghupañcaka : prabrtti o parisara / Jaganmohan Sāhu.

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Kaṭaka : Dāimaṇḍa Pabliśarsa : Prāptisthāna Kaṭaka Ṭreḍiṃ Kampānī, 1985.

1985

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Limericks to friends / Weldon Kees ; [selected by James Reidel].

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[New York] : Jordan Davies, c1985.

1985

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FormatTextCall number*KP (Davies) 89-459Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
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Tsṿey mol 18 : 36 Yidishe limeriḳs.

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Nyu-Yorḳ : Aroysgegebn fun Y.Sh. Ṭoybes Publiḳatsye-ḳomiṭeṭ, 1962.

1962

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Das Weltbühnchen : umweltfreundliche Limericks von (A)lbacete bis (Z)ossen / Hiltrud Lind.

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Berlin : Eulenspiegel Verlag, 1983.

1983

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Limericks. Verzameld en bekeken door Peter de Broek. Met ill. van Verdi.

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[Laren], Skarabee, [1969].

1969

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Adam ṿa-ḥaṿayah : ḥamshirim li-gedolim.

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Givʻatayim : Oranit, [1994]

1994

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Bird limericks : verse about our fine-feathered friends / introduction by Peter Downie ; edited by Todd James Buhrows.

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Waterloo, Ont. : Parkminister Pub., 1993.

1993

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Book of nonsense.

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[London : Thomas McLean, 1856]

1856

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Limericks for the loo, by George Gordon and Lawrence Eisenberg.

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[London] Arlington Books [1965]

1965

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The lure of the limerick; an uninhibited history, by William S. Baring-Gould.

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New York, C.N. Potter; distributed by Crown Publishers [1967]

1967

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99 Limericks mit dem nötigsten Kommentar für Nicht-Engländer von Jürgen Dahl, und mit Zeichnungen von Reiner Zimnik.

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[München] Langewiesche-Brandt [1958]

1958

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A seizure of limericks [by] Conrad Aiken.

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New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964]

1964

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Schlangenfrass und Elektronenmusik: Limericks. Unter Mitwirkung von Lotte Meckauer, Brigitte Meckauer [und] Curt Peiser. Illus. und Gestaltung von Toni Trepte.

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[München, c1961]

1961

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Sefer ha-ḥamshirim / Dan Finḳelshṭain ; iyurim, Tsevi Fedelman.

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Tel Aviv : Ṭraḳlin, c1996.

1996

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Ins Schwarze; Limeriks und Schüttelreime.

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München, Carl Hanser [1968]

1968

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111 Limericks. Illustriert von Paul Flora.

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[Ebenhausen München] Langewiesche-Brandt [1961]

1961

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Out on a limerick. A collection of over 300 of the world's best printable limericks, assembled, revised, dry-cleaned, and annotated. With illustrations by Saxon.

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New York, Harper [1960]

1960

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New comic limericks; laughable poems by Ogden Nash, Edward Lear, Charles Barsotti, Dean Walley, and others. Illustrated by Louis Marak.

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[Kansas City, Mo.] Hallmark Editions [1967]

1967

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Mad land of limerick / by Paul Waterman.

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Dexter, Mo. : Candor Press, c1963.

1963

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The problem with dear Henry Miller, and over two hundred more original limericks.

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New York, Pageant Press [1966]

1966

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