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London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1951. [Modern literature] Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.244; [1], blank. Red cloth blocked in black, with original dust-wrapper with illustration by Fenwick, priced at 5s. Contents clean, no inscriptions, production crease to p.245 (not properly trimmed- inoffensive). Jacket rather bright and fresh. A near fine copy. The 1951 edition (third overall) of this comic novel first published in 1940; the jacket illustration is by Fenwick. McIlvaine A62a (3).

New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1940. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 312. Publisher's green cloth with blue titles and illustration to spine. Top edge yellow, others untrimmed. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Endpapers browned. Some spotting to cloth. Jacket sunned and rubbed to spine with rubbing and chips to edges. Very good. Thirteen previously uncollected short stories written over the last fifteen years.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.284; [4], ads. Orange cloth blocked in black, with original dust-wrapper with illustration by Fenwick, priced at 7/6. Contents clean, book store stamp to free endpaper, cloth sunned to extremities and beneath chips, jacket with some edgewear, loss to crown. An inexpensive copy of the first printing. McIlvaine A62a (1).