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STIFF UPPER LIP, JEEVES
Written by P.G. Wodehouse.
Stock no. 1329650
Published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd.. 1st 1963. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. 189 pages. 7.5 x 5". Spine and corners bumped. Light damp staining to covers and small mark to rear cover. Damp stains and some faint foxing to endpapers. Tiny nick to top edge of front free-endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is damp stained (showing on verso and on rear panel). Rear panel is grubby. The wrapper edges are slightly rubbed.

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A FEW QUICK ONES
Written by P.G. Wodehouse.
Stock no. 1329649
Published by Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black title to spine. 207 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Some foxing to textblock and endpapers. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed with a small tear to top corner of front panel and light damp stains to lower edges (not very visible).

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SOMETHING IN THE CELLAR
Written by Ronald Searle. Illustrated by Ronald Searle.
Stock no. 1829624
Published by Souvenir Press. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ronald Searle's Wonderful World of Wine. Large format. Black boards with silver title to spine, orange endpapers. Humorous full page b/w and colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0285627651. Light foxing to text block. Very pale browning to page edges else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is ligthly browned and a little grubby.

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VILLAGE PEOPLE
Written by Paula Yates. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 1829382
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A typical year in the country, season by season - from rearing sheep to joining the Women's Institute, from entertaining house guests to a burgeoning relationship with the local vicar. A refreshingly witty view of the eccentrics and eccentricities of English country life. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 230 pages. ISBN: 0316905895. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to front endpaper. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Couple of minor marks to front board. Gift inscription in ink to front pastedown (hidden by front flap of dustwrapper). Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and is creased.

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THE GENIUS OF JAMES THURBER
Written by James Thurber; Michael Rosen. Illustrated by James Thurber.
Stock no. 1829351
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1997. Very good condition.

Selection and introduction by Michael J. Rosen. Silver grey pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. 256 pages. A fine copy contained in publisher's slipcase which has a small patch of surface paper damage to one side and edge (possibly caught with sticky tape and top layer of paper removed)... relatively minor and not immediately noticeable (VG).

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ENGLAND
Written by John Burningham. Illustrated by John Burningham.
Stock no. 1329017
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Navy blue boards, silver title to spine. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0224031619. Slight bumping to spine. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper is faded to spine and spine edges and is slightly edge crease. Small stain to edge of front panel.

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THE CREAM OF ANDY CAPP
Written by Reg Smythe. Illustrated by Reg Smythe.
Stock no. 1829014
Published by Daily Mirror. Circa 1965. Almost very good condition.

Brown cloth boards, white titles. Green pictorial endpapers. Cream of the crop of Andy Capp! Unpaginated. Title to spine rubbed with small pinhole to top 1/3 of spine, boards marked. Text block browned. Grubby marks to contents. A reasonable working copy,

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THE 'AZARDS O' CHIMUCK SZWIPPIN
Written by Keith Morgan. Illustrated by Doug Eaton.
Stock no. 1327841
Published by The Forest Bookshop. 1st 1978. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green card wraps. B/w illustrations. The humourous and romantic character of the Forester. Poems mainly in the Forest of Dean dialect. ISBN: 0950592625. SIGNED by the author to half title-page. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just slightly edge rubbed.

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THE PICK OF PUNCH
Written by Miles Kington.
Stock no. 1326774
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Selected and Introduced by Miles Kington. Gold pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. Contained in green slipcase which is slightly faded at opening edges.

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MOTS D'HEURES: GOUSSES, RAMES
Written by Luis D'Antin Van Rooten.
Stock no. 1827119
Published by Angus & Robertson. 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The d'Antin Manuscript. The rhymes of your childhood in the accents of Moliere and De Gaulle! Edited and annotated by Luis d'Antin van Rooten. ISBN: 0207949913. Text block lightly browned else contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and scuffed to rear panel.

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THE IRON TONIC
Written by Edward Gorey. Illustrated by Edward Gorey.
Stock no. 1325817
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 1st thus 2001. Nearly fine condition.

Or A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley. Oblong format, 5 x 8.5". Pictorial mustard boards with black titles. B/w illustrations. Minimal text. ISBN: 0747556458. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. Contents fine.

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SILVER STREAM
Written by A.P. Herbert. Illustrated by Norman Thelwell.
Stock no. 1325813
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue paperboards, cream spine. Humourous b/w drawings. 'A Beautiful Tale of Hare & Hound for Young & Old'. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Pale page edge browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut and a little grubby. Gift Aid sticker to rear panel of wrapper.

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