Water on the Brain by Compton Mackenzie - 1933

Penguin Books, 1977. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Books, Limited. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Books, 1959. Paperback. Good. 1959. Published in Penguin Books. 318 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Penguin Books. Good. Paperback. 1959. 317 pages. Cover worn<br> .

Penguin 1959 1st paperback edition. Cover price 3/6. Minimal rubbing. Page edges lightly tanned. No inscriptions.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1954. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. A superb edition of this scarce volume by Compton Mackenzie, in the original, unclipped dustwrapper. A later edition, firstly published in 1933 by Cassell. A comedy spy novel by Compton Mackenzie, Scottish writer of fiction, biographies, histories and memoirs, cultural commentator, raconteur, and Scottish nationalist. He aided the foundation of the Nationalist Scottish Party. Mackenzie based this volume on his experiences while working for the British Intelligence. In this book the author it at the top of his comic form, and Water on the Brain is a delicious farce described by Mackenzie as "a deliberate caricature of Intelligence."With the unclipped dustwrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, lovely with only minor shelfwear. The dustwrapper is excellent with only slight shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine

London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1933. First edition hard cover, in very good condition. No jacket. Light shelf and handling wear, including discolouration and tanning to page block, leading into page edges, minor creasing at spine head and foot, and light foxing to endpapers. Pages are securely bound, and content within is unmarked. CN. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.

Cassell, 1933-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Clean copy in good condition.

London: Cassell and Company, [1933].. Gilt lettered green textured boards. Trace of tanning to endsheet gutters, otherwise about fine in an uncommonly nice example of the dust jacket which exhibits only a trace of the usual spine fading. First edition of Mackenzie's bitter fictional attack on the British Secret Service, prompted by his prosecution for GREEK MEMORIES (1932) under the Official Secrets Act.