Brainless Bates (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Billious Brown (illustrator). card covers with illus of little bear in bed -reading.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce First World War parody songbook based on popular American wartime tunes, illustrated with humorous vignette illustrations throughout. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps.First edition.A very scarce copy of this work, with no copies held institutionally.A collection of humorous parody songs based on popular American wartime tunes, drawn from verses circulating among active-duty soldiers.Illustrated with humorous vignette illustrations throughout.The final pages advertise Bates"s other wartime comic works, including Trench Gas: A Bunch of Clever Nuts, How to be a Soldier and The Life and Death of the Kaiser. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. Externally, generally smart. Crease to lower corner of front wrap. Creasing down the center of the rear wrap, with the odd closed tear along the crease. Three marks of glue residue to rear wrap with slight paper residue to upper mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots. Very Good Indeed. book.