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
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
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
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
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1918]. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated [58pp]: 25 openings with a humorous verse to the left and its illustration recto; the prelims consist of illustrated openings for the half title, title, Index, and Introduction. The tone of the humour is somewhat mocking of the "Girls'..... More
