Upun my word: a book of puns.

 Himie Koshevoy Treasure Jest of Best Puns (1969) The puns are usually laboured and often lame, displaying more ingenuity than wit. Which means for full effect they need the delivery of a stand-up comic who has mastered the inflection and timing of long jokes. No one-liners here. The collection also shows that wit depends on common cultural references, and since the 1960s many of these no longer apply, and some are now in poor taste. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the book well enough, thus proving I’m an old fogey. I’ve read it twice or thrice over the years (I’ve forgotten). It is a well made book, printed on excellent paper, with at least tangentially relevant old-timey engravings facing each joke. But not a keeper.  **½

Sample (edited): The exploits of Alexander the Great are wondrous and many, but few realise he was an inventor who might well rank with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. It was he who discovered that timing mattered in battle. He needed a device to ensure his troops would arrive on the scene all at the same time, or thereabouts. Alexander took to his tent to think it over, and when he emerged he had the forerunner of the modern chronometer Every soldier had to wrap a chemically treated rag around his wrist. As the day wore on, the cloth changed colour, thus marking the passing of time. It was Alexander’s rag time band.