SCARTHIN BOOKS

4408 What Men Like in Women and What Women Like in Men - E J Hardy
Price : £12.00 Publisher : London: T Sealey Clark Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Soft Condition : Very Good
pp149. "By the author of 'How to be happy though married'". I take this to be a volume of humour. Brown card cover (stained) with blue/red cover illustration. Bottom inch of spine missing.
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4767 Giles Sunday Express and Daily Express Cartoons Third Series - Giles (Intro by Nathaniel Gubbins)
Price : £95.00 Publisher : Lane Publications Published : 1949 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Soft Condition : Very Good
Unpaginated. Cover shows hordes of children debussing into a bluebell wood. Cartoons from Sept '48 - Feb '49. Light wear about edges. Spine rear edge heavily worn, separating at rear 4", separating (ie torn along seam) at front 3".
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4765 Giles Daily Express and Sunday Express Cartoons (Giles First Series) - Giles (Preface by John Gordon)
Price : £250.00 Publisher : Lane Publications Published : 1946 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Soft Condition : Very Good
Unpaginated. Large oblong paperback. Cover shows German generals surrendering to a surprised looking Tommy holding a cup of tea and a sandwich. Bottom right corner thumbed. Edges worn around book and down spine. 1cm tear to bottom back edge of spine. Otherwise a VG copy. Giles' cartoons from Oct 3rd 1943 to July 1946. Interesting to compare and contrast with Sillince of 'Punch' who also collected his wartime cartoons.
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865 Board Room Ballads and other Verses - Gloag,Joan
Price : £30.00 Publisher : George Allen and Unwin Published : 1933 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
We've never seen this before either, though we've had her other books. 32pp pocket-book-sized, in stiff card covers, with wrap-overs in the slim-volume style. Cover and contents illustrated with modernist cartoons by the author. A VG- though faded copy. An excerpt: "Clamouring 'quite!' as a chorus, The quorum records its vote, And the Chairman's smile and his store of guile Have preserved an agreeable note, Quite! quite! And a paying idea's afloat." Actually, John Gloag as a bit of a polymath - he wrote detective stories; he published a Penguin Special "What about Business?" during WW2; and he was an expert on English furniture. The title, of course, is a parody of Kipling, (that last line echoes Kipling's "And a rogue is married to a whore")
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4057 More Humour in the East End - Harrison, Wilfred H. (Foreword by Rev. C Ensor Walters) with 10 Pen and Ink Drawings by Peter Fraser
Price : £20.00 Publisher : The Star Published : 1936 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp60. Small quarto. Blue board covers. Fep bears long dedication to recipient from "Uncle Herbert" dated 1937. 6 plates show East End street, "buildings", children, a rabbit dealer etc. Also tucked in are pages 769-800 from a Victorian household encyclopedia on fun and parlour games (edges browned and curling). Perhaps these two items were put together to pass the time in an air raid shelter in 1939/40. "More Humour" has come through remarkably unscathed.
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7208 Birds-Eye View: Every Bird's Book on Man - Jonks (Illus. Esme)
Price : £40.00 Publisher : Edinburgh: Robert Grant and Son Published : 1937 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good Jacket : J
pp66. Quarto. Cream cloth binding with black lettering, dented in bottom edge in two places. DW is grubby and torn from bottom corner of spine across front for 2", smaller tears at other corners, not priceclipped. Pencilled inscription seems to be by Jonks as signed by C John K S, and JKS are the initials of the dedicatory poem printed before the title page. The inscription says it is not quite 1066 And All That but more like £1074-14-10, a value of significance presumably to the author and his inscriptee.
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5288 Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club - Nash, George. C. (Illus. Christopher Millett)
Price : £75.00 Publisher : London: Chatto and Windus Published : 1935 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good Jacket : J
pp196. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, now faded. DW (now in protective jacket) in two parts, with spine absent, small tears at corners, signs of past creasings. Map endpapers. Edges of pages grubby. Photographs on request. A rare copy of this humour classic.
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2883 Behind the Spifires - Raff
Price : £60.00 Publisher : London: Methuen Published : 1941 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good Jacket : J
First edition, first impression. Book in very good condition in a very good unclipped dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Chipping to paper at head of spine area, and some soiling. Internally clean, contemporary (to book) owner's name and adress in pencil to ffe, binding tight. Illustrated. 106 pages.
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4044 The Bibendum Sketchbook - [None]
Price : £175.00 Published : 1923 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Soft Condition : Very Good
pp16. Produced to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Michelin (1898-1923. We give the publication date based on the introduction). Landscape quarto softback volume (cover colours blue and white, with a a circle of Bibendums in the centre). Cover slightly larger than pages, so a little bumping of corners. Cover yellowing, and a little spotting. Text and cartoon captions in English. Cartoons by Cousyn, Grand' Aigle, Hautot, C. King, O'Galop, Ortiz etc. We assume this a translation of "Le Joyeux Bibendum", Michelin's French language original volume.
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5192 Jonas Rowbottom's Cow-Cake - [None]
Price : £25.00 Publisher : Jarrolds Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Soft Condition : Very Good
4th Impression. Foolscap. "State Control Skit". Satire. Takes the form of a government folder, complete with red (well, pink) tape binding, from the Ministry of State Control. Blue card (some spotting)cover with mock handwritten index. 11 sheets inside, containing typed and handwritten notes as a farmer's request for cow-cake is passed around before "No action" is taken. This document is in the National Archives where it seems to treated as non-fiction.
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