London: Constable, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 224pp, illustrated with numerous drawings. Comic period piece. Contents clean and unmarked. In the original pictorial boards, showing a knight on a prancing horse, rather stiffly rebacked at some time with new endpapers and green cloth spine. Covers bright, with a little minor soiling... More about The Perilous Adventures of Sir Bingo Walker of Alpaca Square
London: The Boy Scouts Association, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 124pp: cartoons: with an introduction, and notes about several of the cartoonists represented. Small 1952 gift inscription to front free endpaper. Minimal foxing to endpapers, contents otherwise very clean. In the original green cloth-textured binding titled in black, clean, bright and... More about Scout Smiles. A miscellany of mild mockery by Scout and other cartoonists
London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. A very fresh copy in dustwrapper. 206pp. Contents fresh and clean. Slight browning to endpapers, and slight foxing to first few pages and to closed fore-edges. In original red cloth-textured binding with spine lettered in gilt: very sharp, bright and... More about Envoy on Excursion
London: Shenval Press, March 1963. First printing as a book. Softcover. [iv], 16, [2], preceded by the Max Ernst frontispiece. The legendary Bond spoof: the Shenval Press edition consisted of fifty numbered copies, signed by Connolly. This is an out-of-series copy, unnumbered and unsigned, acquired by someone who worked at... More about Bond Strikes Camp
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2010. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. (xii), 339pp, illustrated with photographs. Contents fresh and unmarked, appears unread. In the original purple cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp, with very slight compression of the spine ends. In the spectacular protected unclipped pictorial... More about Handling Edna: The Unauthorised Biography
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [c.1872]. Presumed early reprint. Hardcover. 'Mrs Brown' spouting in her forceful and malapropinquitous vernacular: but, in a humour all too familiar, not a force for liberation. (iv) (publishers' list), 154pp. Early ownership name to adverts, title, and rear pastedown: also shelf number to title..... More about Mrs. Brown on Women's Rights
