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Title | Author(s) | Publisher | Date of Publication |
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101 Shaggy Dog Stories | Richard, E. and L. Churchill | Scholastic | 1986/06 |
3650 Jokes, Puns, and Riddles | Kostick, Anne | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers | 2009/08/26 |
Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language | Lederer, Richard | Dell | 1989/08/05 |
Ants Are My Friends, The: A Punderful Celebration of Song | Lederer, Richard and Kegel, Stan | Marion Street Press, Inc. | 2007/09/01 |
Bennett Cerf's Treasury of Atrocious Puns | Cerf, Bennett | Harper & Row | 1968 |
Best Book of Puns, The | Moger, Art | Citadel | 1998/08/25 |
Bred Any Good Rooks Lately: A Collection of Puns, Shaggy Dogs, Spoonerisms, Feghoots & Malappropriate Stories | Charlton, James | Doubleday | 1986 |
Collected Feghoot, The | Briarton, Grendel | Pulphouse Publishing, Inc. | 1992 |
Compleat Feghoot, The: The Lives and Times of History's Greatest Traveller | Briarton, Grendel | Mirage Press | 1975/06/01 |
Crazy English | Lederer, Richard | 1998/06/01 | |
Cruel and Unusual Puns | Hauptman, Don | Laurel | 1991/11/03 |
Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance, A | Rubinstein, Frankie | Palgrave Macmillan | 1995/12/15 |
Dinosaur Joke Book, The: A Compendium of Pre-Hysteric Puns | Bennett, Artie | Random House Books for Young Readers | 1998/03/17 |
Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use It | Parady, A. | Michael O'Mara | 2008/04/28 |
Embrace the Pun | Corbett, Barry | Corbett Design | 2005/09/01 |
Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns | Kiernan, Pauline | Gotham | 2007/10/04 |
Fractured English | Lederer, Richard and Dave Morice | Pocket Books | 1996/11/01 |
Funster Punster: A Book of Puns | Haynes, Martin "Deck" | Outskirts Press | 2009/07/08 |
Get Thee to a Punnery: An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language | Lederer, Richard | Gibbs Smith | 2006/04/21 |
Grime and PUNishment: A collection of sexciting puns | Gordon, Harvey C. | Warner Books | 1981 |
Haiku/Pun for Everyone, A: Book Three | Treatnan, Paul | iUniverse, Inc. | 2008/02/19 |
Have Yourself a Punny Little Christmas | Lederer, Richard | Gibbs Smith | 2006/07/17 |
Himie Koshevoy's Treasure Just of Best Puns | Koshevoy, Himie | West Vancouver: Graydonald Graphics | 1969/01/01 |
Jokes, Shaggy Dog Stories and Other Nonsense | Vornhagen, Vincent | Morris Pub | 1995/02 |
Mammoth Book of Jokes, The: Over 6, 000 Shaggy Dog Stories, Limericks, Puns and Put-downs for All Occasions | Tibballs, Geoff | Robinson Publishing | 2000/09/28 |
More Anguished English: an Expose of Embarrassing Excruciating, and Egregious Errors in English | Lederer, Richard | Dell | 1994/09/04 |
New Pun Book, The | Brown, Thomas A. | General Books LLC | 2010/03/07 |
Play of Words, The: Fun & Games for Language Lovers | Lederer, Richard | Pocket Books | 1991/09/01 |
Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids | Lederer, RIchard | Chicago Review Press | 1996/06/01 |
Pundemonium: Puns Are Everywhere | Gordon, Harvey C. | Punsters Press | 1983/09 |
Pundits' Dictionary | Berle, Gustav | Pundit Press | 1986/10 |
Pun Enchanted Evenings: A Treasury of Wit, Wisdom, Chuckles and Belly Laughs for Language Lovers -- 746 Original Word Plays | Yale, David R. | A Healthy Relationship Press | 2010/04/05 |
PUNishment: The art of punning or how to lose friends and agonize people | Gordon, Harvey C. | Punster's Press | 1977 |
Punning For Your Life | Brett, Theodore A. | Xlibris Corporation | 2002/10/22 |
Puns | Redfern, Walter | Blackwell Pub | 1985/03 |
Puns and Pundits: Word Play in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Literature | Noegel, Scott B. | Capital Decisions Ltd | 2000/03 |
Puns Intended | Noel, Barbara | Trafford | 2009/10/21 |
Puns of Fun | Billingsley, Teresa | iUniverse, Inc. | 2008/01/03 |
Puns Spooken Here | Lederer, Richard | Gibbs Smith | 2006/07/17 |
Rhyme & PUNishment: Adventures in Wordplay | Cleary, Brian P. | Millbrook Press | 2006/01/15 |
Smart Feller Fart Smeller: And Other Spoonerisms | Agee, Jon | Hyperion Book CH | 2006/10/03 |
Smoking Pun, The: Crimes Against the Language | Taylor, Thaddeus | Cerebral Market | 2006/08/28 |
Stoopnagle's Tale Is Twisted: Spoonerisms Run Amok | James, Keen | Stone and Scott | 2001/12 |
The Best of An Almanac of Words at Play | Espy, Willard | Merriam-Webster | 1999/09 |
The Big Book of National Insults: 1001 Xenophobic Quips and Quotes | L'Estrange, Julian | Cassell | 2006/02/28 |
The Biggest Book of Animal Riddles | Lederer, Richard and James D. Ertner | Warner Books | 2001/09 |
The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos | Lederer, Richard | St. Martin's Griffin | 2002/07/23 |
The Cunning Linguist: Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun | Lederer, Richard | St. Martin's Griffin | 2003/12/17 |
The Game of Words | Espy, Willard | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers | 2003/08/18 |
The Giant Book of Animal Jokes: Beastly Humor for Grownups | Lederer, Richard and James D. Ertner | Stone and Scott | 2006/02/14 |
The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language | Lederer, Richard | St. Martin's Griffin | 2007/11/13 |
Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot | Briarton, Grendel and Ariss, Bruce | Paradox Press | 1962 |
Visual puns and hard-edge poems: Works by Frederick Hammersley | Traugott, Joseph | Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico | 1999 |
World's Funniest Puns, The | Alexander, James | Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited | 2006/06/01 |
World's Wackiest French Joke Book, The: 500 Puns Guaranteed to Give You Deja-Eww! | Fenton, Sue | McGraw-Hill | 2006/09/20 |
World's Wackiest Spanish Joke Book, The: 500 Puns Guaranteed to Drive You Across the Rio Grom -de | Fenton, Sue | McGraw-Hill | 2006/09/20 |
"Shaggy Dog" Story, The: Its Origin, Development and Nature (With a Few Seemly Examples) | Partridge, Eric and V.H. Drummond | Philosophical Library | 1955 |