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London: Atrium Press Ltd Book containing 32 pages of colourful illustrations of national costumes each divided into three seperate sections which can be turned over to craate many different combinations.Not dated but believed to be 1950's. White coloured pictorial boards are marked and worn to corners,with blue plastic spiral spine, the colour of this has faded over the years. Some ink marking on inside back board SEE IMAGE.Though not perfect still a presentable example of a collectable book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First Edition. Illustrated Card Covers. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Walter Trier. 7x 5 Inches. Card Covers.

London: J. Murray, 1982. First edition of this book written and illustrated by Beryl Cook 30 pages in bright clean condition, many full page and smaller colour illustrations,all present NO dustwrapper , outer illustrated boards are very lightly rubbed to corners. A nice example of this book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition First Printing. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Beryl Cook. 10 x 7 ½ Inches. Hardcover.

St. Kilda: Lawrence Kay Original printing of this book of cartoons,not dated but early to mid 1940s, cartoons appeared in Pictorial newspapers in Australia. 50 pages in overall clean condition just some light tanning to pages due to quality of paper used at the time of printing, Every page has cartoon illustrations with period adverts on inside of covers. NO dustwrapper, outer illustrated paper covers have a few light marks and small loss to front cover, both front and rear covers are detached but book is complete, staples holding the rest of book they are NOT rusty. Though not perfect still a pleasing example of a scarce book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First. Illustrated paper Covers. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Alex Gurney. 10 ½ x 7 Inches. Paper Covers.

St. Kilda: Lawrence Kay Original printing of this book of cartoons,not dated but early to mid 1940s, cartoons appeared in Pictorial newspapers in Australia. 50 pages in overall clean condition just some rust marks where staples are in the centre folds, Staples remain rusty middle pages is loose but rest are still holding.Every page has cartoon illustrations with period adverts on inside of covers. NO dustwrapper, outer illustrated paper covers have a few light marks and some light creasing, both front and rear covers are detached but book is complete,Though not perfect still a pleasing example of a scarce book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First Edition. Illustrated paper Covers. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Alex Gurney. 10 ½ x 7 Inches. Paper Covers.

St. Kilda: Lawrence Kay Original printing of this book of cartoons,not dated but early to mid 1940s, cartoons appeared in Pictorial newspapers in Australia. 50 pages in bright clean condition.neat ink former owners details on first page,some small rust marks where staples were in the centre folds, Staples are now gone so pages are loose in the covers but all present. Every page has cartoon illustrations with period adverts on inside of covers. NO dustwrapper, outer illustrated paper covers have a few light marks and light creasing to corners. Thogh not perfect still a pleasing example of a scarce book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First. Illustrated paper Covers. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Alex Gurney. 10 ¾ x 8 Inches. Paper Covers.

East Molesey Uk: Trouser Press, 1989. Humorous book of full page colour illustrations of booby birds writtenand illustrated by Catherine Daniel and Peter Crocker. 56 pages SIGNED by Catherine Daniel and Peter Crocker on front endpaper. A very bright clean copy SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.. Signed by Author/ Artists. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Daniel, Catherine; Crocker, Peter. 9 ½ x 7 ½ Inches. Hardcover.

London: Dennis Dobson, 1961. Third impression of this book of silly verses, written and illustrated by Spike Milligan, published December 1961. Contains 119 pages in very bright clean condition, many B/w illustrations, all present as listed. Dustwrapper clean but background colour faded on spine tiny tear to top front , not price clipped, 10s 6d net . A nice example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Signed by Author. Reprint. Boards. Very Good/Good Plus. Illus. by Spike Milligan. 8 ¾ x 5¾ Inches. Hardcover.

London: Sunday Express, 1986. The fortieth cartoon annual in very good condition, original publication 1986, not price clipped, light foxing to title page and very light browning to extreme edges of pages. This copy is desirable as it is INSCRIBED BY GILES "To Helen happy 1987 Giles" SEE IMAGES, DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Giles. 25 x 19 Cms. Softcover.

London: Daily Express, 1955. Giles annual number nine (ninth series) in extremely bright clean condition, not price clipped corners straight, book tight and sound. A truly very very good copy. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.. First Edition. Illustrated Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Giles. 26 x 20 Cms. Card Covers.

London: Grant Richards, 1901. Excellent book containing 24 full page colour caricatures of famous men of the period depicted as characters from history and literature. 51 pages in bright clean condition just the very occasionalsmall mark, illustrations,all present as called for plus full page humorous verse opposite each illustration, NO dustwrapper,illustrated boards are a little worn to corners and edges few light marks to boards, tiny split, ¼ inch long to front of red cloth spine which is lightly faded. Though not perfect still a pleasing example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Illustrated Boards. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by F. Carruthers Gould. 10 ¾ x 8½ Inches. Hardcover.

Worthing UK: W H Charnock, 1953. A book of verse regarding motoring and motor cars. Published by the author this is the second impression 39 pages with several amusing illustrations. Book is overall clean inside, just a little browning to endpapers, previous owners name and date september 1953 in ink on front endpaper. Outer covers light marks and little fading especially on spine, dark stain top right corner of front board which comes through to inside lightly affecting the first three pages. A pleasing copy of a rare book by this collectable author SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.. Second Impression. Illustrated Cloth Boards. Good/No Jacket. 19 x 12.5 Cms. Hardcover.

London: The Syren and Shipping Limited, 1916. Book of 24 full page B/w humorous illustrations,,all present as listed, 38 pages in overall clean condition just a few light occasional marks to blank margins, small closed tear to bl;ank margin of one page.. Book is complete but stitching of binding is loose. NO dustwrapper,outer illustrated boards are rubbed and worn on edges with some creasing, wear to rear board and a few small marks, cloth spine is worn with small losses top and bottom. Though not perfect still a pleasing example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition First Printing. Illustrated Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by E G O Beuttler. 9 ¾ x 7 ¼ Inches. Hardcover.

London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent and Co Ltd, 1922. A humorous story of Golf written as a sheakespearian parody, 36 pages in very bright clean condition, many full page B/w illustrations, all present as listed plus text,INSCRIBED and SIGED by Paul Triefus on front endpaper To Gordon Blyth Esq. the super sailor with kind regards from Paul triefus. NO dustwrapper, outer boards are rubbed and worn on edges and some light marking to boards. A pleasing example of this book especially with Signature SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Inscribed By Author. First Edition First Printing. Illustrated Boards. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Sidney Rogerson. 8 ¼ x 6½ Inches. Hardcover.

London: The Office Strand London, 1889. Numbers 1 to 26 of volume one of this magazine, paper covers bound in to official hardcover binder, from October 6 1888 to March 30 1889. Contains 384 pages in overall bright clean condition just the very occasional light jmark, many B/w illustrations and period adverts, plus many articles stories and comments on the time period. NO dustwrapper, outer boards are lightly rubbed to edges and corners. A nice example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition. Gold Decorated Boards. Good Plus/No Jacket. 11 ¼ x 9 Inches. Hardcover.

London: A & C Black Ltd, 1925. Hardcover book of cartoon humorous stories of Pop frrom the Daily Sketch newspaper. Stories of a portly bald headed gentleman getting into amusing situations, 96 pages of B/w iluustrations some single colour red on B/w and full colour frontispiece. Book is sound and clean just some light foxing to endpapers, Illustraed boards are little rubbed on edges, little yellowed to edges and colour very lightly faded to rear. Overall a nice example of an amusing book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.. Illustrated Boards. Good Plus/No Jacket. 19.5 x 17 Cms. Hardcover.

London: W Eden Hooper, 1900. 51 sayings from the world of the Stock exchange, each saying illustrated by a full page drawing by Dudley Hardy and J J Proctor. This is the auitograph edition limited to 1000 copies and SIGNED by Dudley Hardy in pencil on title page. Not dated but is 1900, contains 57 pages in bright clean condition justsome browning to endpapers rest of pages very clean. 51 B/w full page illustrations plus illustration on title page,, all present as listed, a couple are two on a pge, each page has tissue guard to protect the drawing. Short introductory prospectus, NO dustwrapper, outer boards are marked and stained with slight lifting of vellum spine on top front board, still a sound binding. HEAVY BOOK 1.8 Kg with packing EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED FOR OVERSEAS A nice example of this book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Signed by Artist. First Limited Edition Signed. Cloth Boards Vellum Spine. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Dudley Hardy , J J Proctor. 14 x 11 Inches. Hardcover.

London: London Express Newspapers Limited, 1927. First issue of this book of Strube cartoons, pages not numbered but 100 plus in overall clean condition, few pages have tiny losses top blank corners and small tear to last page bottom blank margin..Every page is full page B/w cartoon,all present as published. outer illustrated paper covers are dusty with age, worn to edges and tiny loss to rear top corner, Though not perfect still a presentable example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First Edition. Illustrated Paper Covers. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Strube. 8 ½ x 6 ½ Inches. Paper Covers.