Life's Little Oddities by LYND Robert - 1941

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., 1942. Hardcover. Good. 1942. Reprinted. 234 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and pen markings to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed brown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

London, Readers' Union/ Dent, 1943;. Hardback. Very good/ No dust jacket. viii, 242pp with illustrations by Steven Spurrier. Brown lightly marked covers with green title on spine. .

London: J M Dent, 1941. 2nd. Imp. . Cloth. Very Good/G to Vg. Bound in light brown cloth, with a printed black label, with unclipped dw, illustrated throughout with in-text drawings by Steven Spurrier, 234pp. Robert Lynd, a regular contributor to the News Chronicle and the New Statesman has written 30 essays on such matters as, springtime, galoshes, buying a lemon, getting one's hair cut, being afraid and meat eating. His reviewer comments in 1941, " these characteristic qualities, so utterly incompatible with Nazi brutality and bluster ".

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.