Hardback with dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Andrew Neil on the front endpaper. The inscription is to the late photographer / photojournalist Sally Soames. Both the book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Publisher's original black boards. There is a slight forwards lean; the binding is otherwise firm. Pages are slightly tanned and there is a slight greyish mark to the top closed textblock page edge. Dust jacket is excellent - a little bruised at spine ends only. Front flap not price clipped. pp. 481. 24.1cm tall. View More...
Single issue Punch magazine for March 11, 1959. Binding stapled at the spine. pp. xvi, 337-368, xvii-xxvi. Front cover illustration is by Norman THELWELL- a bird watcher on a cliff surrounded by seabirds. Full page Yardley Lavender advert on the back cover. No colour illustrations inside, other than a couple of full page colour adverts. One full page Ronald SEARLE illustration on the theme of the de-colonialisation of Africa. Condition is good overall but the staples have rusted, with rust stains around the staples at the centrefold and a little corrosion with centrefold coming loose; some lig... View More...
Single issue Autumn Punch magazine for September 21, 1960. Binding stapled at the spine. pp. xii, 397-436, xiii-xxii. Front cover illustration is by Rowland EMETT on the subject of The Future of the Railways, also title of an article inside which contains more illustrations by Emett. There is a further full page colour illustration on the page facing p. vi - a Guinness advert from the series Guinness Hobby Horses, called The Fromologist. Emett's Guiness Hobby Horses illustrations featured in a Guiness Doctors Christmas booklet in 1958. Other illustrations include a full page black and white Ro... View More...
Single issue Punch magazine for November 4, 1957 - The 1958 Punch Almanack. Binding stapled at the spine. pp. xviii, 1-48, xix- xxxiv. Front cover illustration is by Russell BROCKBANK, who was art editor of punch at the times. Full page Grant's Whiskey advert on the back cover. Illustrations include full page colour by George SPROD and Michael FFOLKES, and half-page colour by Norman MANSBRIDGE and Norman THELWELL. Condition is good overall but the staples have rusted, with minor rust stains around the staples at the centrefold; some light rubs to cover edges, with a 1cm tear in the side edge o... View More...