Here's Misery!: A Book of Burlesques.

London, UK Methuen & Company, 1928. Hardcover First Ed, so stated. First Ed, so stated. Very Good+ in Good+ DJ: Book shows indications of very careful use; just a touch of wear to the extremities; former owner's inked name at the front free endpaper; heavy foxing at the bottom edge; much sparser foxing at the fore-edge; top edge is slightly dusted; binding square and secure; text clean. DJ shows moderate wear to the extremities, with small loss at the upper extremities, due to chipping and rubbing; a half-inch tear at the top of the front panel; mild rubbing and faint soiling; unclipped; mylar-protectected. Overall, remains structurally sound and tightly bound with a clean text. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 143pp. Illustrated by Eric Fraser. Hardback with DJ. A Book of Burlesques - notably a spoof of Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter. Edmund George Valpy Knox (10 May 1881 – 2 January 1971), was a poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was editor of Punch 1932-1949, having been a regular contributor in verse and prose for many years. He was son of Edmund Arbuthnott Knox. He was brother of Catholic priest and author Ronald Knox, codebreaker Dilly Knox, and Anglican monk and New Testament scholar Wilfred Knox. His daughter, the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, wrote a biography of the four brothers titled The Knox Brothers. As a poet, he was noted for his ability to provide topical satirical poems for Punch in the style of well-known contemporary poets such as John Drinkwater, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Edmund Blunden, Robert Bridges and J. C. Squire—usually managing to evoke the poet's general style and manner without resorting to parodying any particular poem. Although best known for satire, some of his more serious poems, written during the Second World War while he held the editor's chair at Punch, evoke by turns wistful nostalgia, grim determination and a longing for eventual peace, often using metres from Greek or Latin poetry or historical English forms. Although for the greater part of his life an agnostic, he gradually drifted back into the Church of England.