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London: Victor Gollancz, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Tall 8 vo. 149 pp. B/w illustrations Nicolas Bentley, blue cloth. Small dark stain bottom front cover, light foxing of end papers, very good; no dust jacket..

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 7 x 9 1/2 inches. 149 pages. Condition is Very Good; spine label chipped, light wear to spine ends, small bookseller's label on front pastedown, : J. Baker & Son Ltd. Booksellers, Printers & Stationers, Clifton, Bristol", endpapers lightly foxed, text and illustratins are very clean, binding is tight. STK

London: Victor Gollancz, 1936. Hardcover. Octavo; G+/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine, blue with white paper title label; Boards in blue cloth, slight wear to spine caps, slight shelfwear; Text block clean and tight; 149 pages, illustrated (b&w). 1320580. FP New Rockville Stock.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. FIRST EDITION with rather tatty dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post

V. Gollancz, 1936-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.1983 cent in x 23.7819 cent in x 17.7865 cent in. first edition on blue cloth

London: Gollancz, 1936. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good. Nicolas Bentley. 149 pages. Hardcover. Black & white cartoon illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Some soil to front cover. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 66505

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1936* Publisher: Victor Gollancz.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, blue title to white spine label. Very slight bumps & rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: B/w cartoon-illustrated dust wrapper on a blue ground, black titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, price shown on spine of 6/- net. Considerable wear with losses to top and bottom edges, head and tail of spine, separated at rear spine fold. Heavy foxing overall. Now re-inforced and in clear protective wrapper. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Gift dedication to ffep dated Dec. 1936. Top & fore-edge aged and dusty. Clean, crisp and tight with little reading wear, slight foxing to text, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawn cartoons within text throughout.* Pages: 149 pp. text. v pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A… Read More

Victor Gollancz, London, 1936. Ills by Nicolas Bentley. Bound in cloth. 149 p. -good.-(Shelf wear, name sin pencil on the fly leaf. Here and there some smudges or marker. Overall in good condition.).

London: Victor Gollancz, 1936. FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. Large 8vo, pp. [150] with b/w illustrations. Blue cloth, paper title label to spine (toned). A little rubbed, corners and edges bumped. Edges dusty. Lady Ellen Askwith's inscription in black pen, and flamboyant hand (for M. R. Fletcher?), to half-title: "With love & very best/ wishes/ from Ellen Askwith," Fletcher armorial ex-libris to front pastedown, featuring intertwined "MRF," foxing to front. Else, clean and tidy. Good+ Hon. Eleanor Theodora Roby Benson (1906-1968) and Hon. Betty Ellen Askwith (1909-1995) collaborated with Nicolas Bentley (1907-1998; then, three years shy of illustrating T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) on a clutch of commercially successful 'In a nutshell' titles of fashionably flippant humour. Both women had writing careers, Benson as a travel writer and novelist (under 'T.B.') and Askwith as a biographer. Lady Ellen Askwith (née Peel; 1909-1962) was the mother of Betty Askwith, and, like her… Read More