Bashford Henry Augustus Carp (3 results)

First edition thus. Hardcover. A bookplate of a previous owner on the front free endpaper, o/w fine in fine original slipcase. With an eluminating introduction by John Letts and b/w drawings by David Eccles.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. With Illustrations by Robin (Miss Marjorie Blood, later Mother Catherine of the Order of the Sacred Heart) (illustrator). States "First published May 1924 / New Impression November 1924." So, the second printing of the first edition, in red boards, titled in black to spine, NO dust jacket. All eight B&W plates firmly mounted where they ought to be. Humorous fictional autobiography of a self-righteous prig, rediscovered by Anthony Burgess circa 1966 (when he wrote a new introduction for the next known Heinemann printing) and quite a hard book to find in any original, pre-war Heinemann binding. The real author, Sir Henry Howarth Bashford Kt., M.D., F.R.C.P., was reportedly Chief Medical Officer to the Post Office, Medical Adviser to the Treasury, and Honorary Physician to King George VI, while illustrator "Robin" -- who renders most of the characters here as chinless pinheads -- is reliably reported to have actually been Miss Marjorie Blood, a frequent contributor to "Punch," who subsequently joined the Order of the Sacred Heart and became Mother Catherine at Roehampton Convent. 274 pp. Reduced from $550.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Robin (illustrator). First Edition. First impression. Size: 12mo 6 3/4 - 7 3/4". xiv + 274pp. Front hinge cracking. Spine cocked and slightly faded with minor wear to ends. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Edges foxed and browned. Covers marked. Corners bumped. Illustrator: Robin. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Humour. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 60150.