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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Slim book. Shelf wear, the pages are tanned; a little staining inside the covers; a good solid book. The jacket is chipped, torn and stained. Illustrator: Meinke, Jeanne. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Humor; ISBN: 0804219648. ISBN/EAN: 9780804219648. Inventory No: 216627. Meinke, Jeanne (illustrator). …

Hardcover. 55, [1] p.; 21 cm. Claims to be the first collection of exclusively religious limericks. 'More often than not the clergyman is the butt of the joke, and there are well-known limericks that give examples of clerical behavior going contrary to the Code Napoleon, the Decalogue, and the Articles of War. Some of these could be scrubbed up; some could not. Anyone who knows the original can easily reconstruct it. In fact, seminarians interested in higher criticism can be on the lookout for the hand of the redactor on almost every page.' 39 are signed by the compiler, others indicate authorship when this is known. There's a vaporish maiden in Harrison / Who burned for the love of a Saracen. / But she had to confine her / Intent to a Shriner, / Who suffers, I fear, by comparison. (Morris Bishop) -- I think it exceeding odd / That a divinity professor named Dodd / Should spell, if you please, / His name with two d's / When one is sufficient for God. -- The World Council is glad Visser 't Hooft / Was a man too austere to be 'sp Hooft. / In Geneva or Rome / He felt always at home; / He succeeded much more that he 'g Hooft. VG orig. green and olive boards in vg dj. drawings by Jeanne Meinke (illustrator).…