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Faber & Faber Limited, 1954. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1954. 2nd Impression. 107 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Some uncut pages throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

London, UK: Faber & Faber, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Drummond, V H. 108pp, some black and white illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine and board edges, lightly rubbed spine ends; quite cocked. Text block edges starting to tan. Endpapers foxing and tanning. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has 1cm closed tear at spine head, light shelf wear, chipping to edges, price clipped.

Philisophical Library, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition, with good to very good jacket. Some foxing to paper, slight wear to jacket at corners. Illustrated by V. H. Drummond. Reprint dated 1955.

Faber and Faber, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Faber and Faber 1953. First. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Includes a dust jacket, price unclipped, in fine condition.

London:: Faber and Faber Ltd.. Hardback. 107pp. Illustrated by V. H. Drummond. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine is very clean but slightly faded. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. First Edition. 1954.

Philosophical Library, 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

London : Faber, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 107p. : ill. ; 20cm. Subjects: English wit and humour -- History and criticism.

Faber, 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-Library. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". V. H. Drummond. A smart first edition of this instructive tale from Eric Partridge, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated throughout. An instructive and entertaining work on the art of story-telling, with reference to the "Shaggy Dog" story, its origin and the ways in which it has developed and changed over time. Written by Eric Partridge, a New Zealand-British lexicographer of English slang. Illustrated by Violet Hilda Drummond, a British children's author and illustrator. Previously held in the library of Nicholas Wall, an English judge, President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear and chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine. Internally,… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1954. Second impression, 12mo, pp. 107, [1]; text illustrations; blue publisher's cloth; corners bumped, a little cocked, very good. Inscribed by Partridge to "Sir Michael Ralcon, with the author's admiration and compliments."

London: Faber and Faber, [1955]. Third impression. 12mo (19cm). Blue cloth, in salmon dust jacket; 107,[1]pp; black and white illustrations by V. H. Drummond. Inscribed by Partridge to Denys and Joane Kelsey on front free endpaper. Bookplate and ownership inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Lightly rubbed, Very Good or better. Jacket lightly dusty and rubbed, with neat cellotape repairs to verso at head and jacket flaps: Very Good. Inscribed by the author, who also made ink corrections to the text on the front jacket flap and to the advertisement opposite the title page.

London: Faber & Faber, 1955. Third impression (originally published in 1953); 12mo, pp. 107, [1]; blue cloth gilt in pictorial dust jacket; light spotting to edges, else near fine. Inscribed by Partridge to Anthony Clarkson, "with whom it has been a pleasure for me to do businesss." Additionally, Partridge has crossed out the jacket price and has made a small notation on the list of other works, noting one title as out of print.