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• How to Find Lost Objects (Baltimore: Top Hat Press, c2008), by Professor Solomon (PDF with commentary at professrsolomon.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Barry Dare and the Mysterious Box (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1929), by Gardner Hunting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Red Balloon (Chicago et al.: P.F. Volland Co., c1918), by Caroline Hofman, illust. by Rachael Robinson Elmer (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Zenarchy, by Kerry W. Thornley (HTML at impropaganda.net)

• Waiting for Foucault, Still (electronic 4th edition; Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2002), by Marshall Sahlins (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home (New York: J. F. Taylor and Co., 1901), by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture (London: Field and Tuer, 1890), by Andrew Lang
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text

• The Great Inquiry ("only authorised version"; London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), by Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Mystic Spring, and Other Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1904), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Phoenixiana: or, Sketches and Burlesques, by George Horatio Derby (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)

• Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Adrienne Laskier Martin (HTML at UC Press)

• The Great Inquiry ("only authorised version"; London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), by Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)

• The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home (New York: J. F. Taylor and Co., 1901), by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Apocolocyntosis, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by W. H. D. Rouse (Gutenberg text)
• Selected Essays of Seneca, and the Satire on the Deification of Claudius (Latin texts and English notes; New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, ed. by Allan Perley Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, by Petronius Arbiter, trans. by W. C. Firebaugh, contrib. by François Nodot, José Marchena, and Jusepe Antonio González de Salas (Gutenberg text)

• The New Hacker's Dictionary (online version, aka the Jargon File), ed. by Eric S. Raymond (HTML with commentary at catb.org)

• La Civilité (Puérile et Honnête) Expliquée par l'Oncle Eugène (in French; Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit and Co., ca. 1887), by Eugène Plon, illust. by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org

• Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709), by Delarivier Manley
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean (sixth edition, 4 volumes in 2; London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1720), by Delarivier Manley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2003), ed. by Peter Narváez (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Eating in Two or Three Languages (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1919), by Irvin S. Cobb, illust. by Herbert Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 1001 Ways To Beat The Draft (New York: Oliver Layton Press, c1966), by Tuli Kupferberg and Robert Bashlow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Down the River: or, Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello (New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874), by George W. Hooper
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling; Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot (Augustan reprint #140; texts originally published 1726 and 1727; Los Angeles: W. A. Clark Memorial Library, 1970), by Henry Carey, ed. by Samuel L. Macey (Gutenberg text, decorated HTML, and page images)

• Microcosmographia Academica: Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician (c1908), by Francis Macdonald Cornford (HTML at Murray State)

• The New Hacker's Dictionary (online version, aka the Jargon File), ed. by Eric S. Raymond (HTML with commentary at catb.org)

• The History of England, From the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1st, By a Partial, Prejudiced, and Ignorant Historian (original manuscript version), by Jane Austen (page images and HTML with commentary at bl.uk)

• Perfect Behavior: A Parody Outline of Etiquette, by Donald Ogden Stewart, illust. by Ralph Barton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• Foxy Grandpa and His Boys: Fun on the Farm (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, c1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Abandoned Farmers: His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City to the Farm, by Irvin S. Cobb (Gutenberg text)

• Funny Stories About the Ford (2 volumes; Hamilton, OH: Presto Pub. Co., c1915), by Ring Lardner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Futurist Fifteen: An Old Moore or Less Accurate Forecast of Certain Events in the Year 1915 (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1915), by Barry Pain, contrib. by Alfred Leete (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Capitalist, or, the City of Fort Worth: A Parody on the Mikado (Fort Worth, TX: Fort Worth Board of Trade, c1888), by Ed. J. Smith (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• Campi Golfarii Romae Antiquae (reprint, with new material at front and back of book; 1935), by Payson Sibley Wild and Bert Leston Taylor, ed. by Paul Valentine Bacon, contrib. by Laurence Conger Woodworth and F. C. Eastman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Campi Golfarii Romae Antiquae (in Latin and English; Chicago: Privately printed for the Brothers of the Book, 1912), by Payson Sibley Wild and Bert Leston Taylor, ed. by Laurence Conger Woodworth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Golfer's Alphabet (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by Van Tassel Sutphen, illust. by A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Punch's Golf Stories: Told by His Merry Men (from the Punch Library of Humour; London: Educational Book Co., ca. 1910), ed. by J. A. Hammerton, illust. by Phil May, George Du Maurier, L. Raven-Hill, F. H. Townsend, Harry Furniss, Edward Tennyson Reed, Bernard Partridge, Fred Pegram, A. S. Boyd, A. T. Smith, Arthur Wallis Mills, David Wilson, C. E. Brock, Gunning King, Charles Harrison, G. L. Stampa, and Tom Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Westminster Alice (London: Westminster Gazette, 1902), by Saki, illust. by F. Carruthers Gould
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Little Codfish Cabot at Harvard: True Story of a Life to Which Little Folk May Look Forward and Their Elders May Look Back (Cambridge, MA: Little Codfish Cabot Pub. Co.; Boston: J. W. Luce and Co., 1924), by Samuel H. Ordway, illust. by F. Wenderoth Saunders (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Hell Up to Date: The Reckless Journal of R. Palasco Drant, Special Correspondent, Through the Infernal Regions, As Recorded by Himself (Chicago: Schulte Pub. Co., c1893), by Art Young (PDF at marxists.org)
• Through Hell With Hiprah Hunt (New York: Zimmerman's, 1901), by Art Young (PDF with included commentary at marxists.org)

• The Bride's Primer: Being a Series of Quaint Parodies on the Ways Of Brides and Their Misadventures Interlarded With Useful Hints for Their Advantage (New York: Phelps Pub. Co., c1905), contrib. by Thornton W. Burgess and Thomas L. Masson, illust. by F. Strothmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nye and Riley's Railway Guide (Chicago et al.: Dearborn Pub. Co., 1888), by Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley, illust. by Baron DeGrimm, E. Zimmerman, and Walter Hugh McDougall (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Chicken Little: The Inside Story (A Jungian Romance) (Toronto: Inner City Books, c1993), by Daryl Sharp (PDF at innercitybooks.net)

• The Golden Age of Patents: A Parody on Yankee Inventiveness (New York: F. A. Stokes and Brother, 1888), by Wallace Peck
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Mr. Dooley's Philosophy (based on an edition from 1901 or later), by Finley Peter Dunne (Gutenberg text)
• Mr. Dooley's Philosophy (London: William Heinemann, 1901), by Finley Peter Dunne, illust. by William Nicholson, E. W. Kemble, and Frederick Burr Opper (multiple formats at archive.org)

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