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HUMOURS OF GOLF
Written by W. Heath Robinson. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 2109598
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1923. Almost very good condition.

Introduction by Bernard Darwin. Large format. Pictorial boards, cloth spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Book has been rebacked, with new endpapers and new green cloth spine that has gilt title; original covers laid down. Bumping and wear to corners and cover edges; a little chipping. Some grubby marks to covers and partial cup ring mark to front cover. Some grubby margin marks.

SYMPTOMS OF BEING AMUSED VOLUME 1
Written by Henry Alken. Illustrated by Henry Alken.
Stock no. 1804390
Published by Thos. McLean. 1st 1822. Almost very good condition.

Volume 1 (all published). Large oblong format. Three quarters burgundy leather with cloth sides. 42 handcoloured plates including title page by Alken, many in his sporting/equine style. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Includes Symptoms of a Preface page. Boards worn, faded and marked. Joints cracked but binding still tight. Inscription in ink to verso of first blank page. 41 of 42 hand coloured plates present. Frontis has been expertly repaired/relined. Probably a rebound copy as the tissue guards have watermark dating 1865. Plates wonderfully bright but grubby marks to margins and slightly affecting plates. Overall a nice copy of a weird and wonderful item!

THE GROG INVASION
Written by Griswallt Ap Llechitwyt. Illustrated by Griswallt Ap Lechitwyt.
Stock no. 817475
Published by Y. Lolfa Cyf.. 1st 2006. Fine condition.

Chronicles of the Llandoddies. Square format. Card wraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0862438926. SIGNED by author to first page.

AN EXPERIENCE OF CRITICS AND THE APPROACH TO DRAMATIC CRITICISM
Written by Christopher Fry; Kaye Webb; Alec Guinness; et al. Illustrated by Ronald Searle.
Stock no. 808000
Published by Perpetua. 1st 1952. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A brilliant playwright talks, at length, about his won and other people's experience of critics. What he expects of them and how they have helped or failed him. Eight distinguished critics explain as succintly as they are obliged to criticise, what their own aproach is to their work, the most discussed actor of recent years (Alec Guiness) provides a provoking introduction and, knitting them together in good fellowship, Ronald Searle supplies the caricatures. Edited by Kaye Webb. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 62 pages. A few minor marks to boards. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean. Dustwrapper spine sunned/faded, worn to edges, a little grubby to rear panel.

THE W. HEATH ROBINSON CALENDAR
Written by W. Heath Robinson. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 599110
Published by G. Delgado Ltd.. 1933. Very good condition.

Portrait format, beige card wraps with b/w illustration on front cover. One page per week with b/w cartoon and caption in Robinson's humourous style. Tied at top with red ribbon. A few grubby marks and foxspots to covers which have two small splits at top corners. Contents complete with just a few pages margins having light foxspots. A super copy of this exceptionally rare and ephemeral item.

FRED BASSET NO. 23
Written by Graham. Illustrated by Graham.
Stock no. 598921
Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd.. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial card wraps. A Daily Mail Publication. B/w cartoon strips of the popular dog! Wear and some edge-creasing to covers. Foxing to book (mostly to covers and first and last few pages.)

GARDENING GUYED
Written by Derek McCulloch. Illustrated by Will Owen.
Stock no. 577660
Published by Ivor Nicholson & Watson Ltd.. Circa 1932. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format. Green pictorial boards. A humourous look at nature. Full-page b/w illustrations. SIGNED by author with inscription on title page. Covers very slightly marked. Spine bumped. Light foxing to endpapers and last couple of pages. Pictorial wrapper is browned, slightly edge-chipped, with dampstain to top rear edges and dark stain to title on front.

HALFDANES NONSENSE AND NURSERY RHYMES
Written by Halfdan Rasmussen.
Stock no. 620198
Published by Schonbergske. 1ST 1973. Almost very good condition.

Translated and recreated by Kurt Hansen. Title on front cover is Halfdanes Sense and Nonsense Verse. Pictorial boards, b/w illustrations. 52 pages. ISBN: 8757006253. Edges rubbed and worn. Light (coffee?) stain to front cover. Contents clean and bright.

NICHOLAS BENTLEY'S BOOK OF BIRDS
Written by Nicolas Bentley. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 666622
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Avian Alphabet. B/w pictures. Humourous rhymes. Spine a little bumped, slight fading to boards. Wrapper edge-worn and grubby. Contents fine.

WILHELM BUSCH
Written by Friedrich Bohne. Illustrated by Wilhelm Busch.
Stock no. 683878
Published by Emil Vollmer. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Four volumes. Colour frontis to each. Humourous b/w illustrations. German text. Wrappers have slightly faded spines and rubbed corners.

GILES CARTOONS & CALENDAR 1999
Written by Giles. Illustrated by Giles.
Stock no. 563485
Published by Express Newspapers Ltd.. 1999. Fine condition.

Calendar for the year 1999. Pictorial card folder is slightly faded at edges.

MR. PUNCH'S LIMERICK BOOK
Written by Langford Reed. Illustrated by G.S. Sherwood.
Stock no. 984657
Published by Cobden-Sanderson. 1st 1934. Slightly better than very good condition.

Full crimson morocco binding, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. A few marks to rear cover. Reduced from £35.