George Sprod (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover 1st Edition (1953), 2nd printing. Good condition without a jacket. Blue cloth-covered boards with orange Punch and Judy sketches on the front cover and spine. The covers are in good shape showing light wear to the corners and spine ends. Spine ends are crushed, and the with fraying beginning at the head of the spine. The binding is a little weak and showing a gap between spine cloth and text block at the head of the spine; however, the pages are all intact. Toning to the edges of the text block and end papers. Abrasion to the front free end papers. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 88pp., b/w illustrations. Lightly browned text block and edges. Covers slightly rubbed with age toning to the edges. Lightly bumped corners. Uncreased spine.(BH) 11/23.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. George Sprod, Sue Plater and anonymous Photographers (illustrator). First Reprint, revised Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A little foxing throughout, tiny bit of edgewear. Some sticker residue on cover from previous seller.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. George Napier Sprod (illustrator). First Edition. Â'The Tale of the TubÂ' (with apologies to Jonathan Swift) is the amusing and instructive product of a new author-artist partnership. Geoffrey Ashe, scholar, teacher and author of tracts on Indian mysticism, has surveyed the art of bathing since prehistoric times with a twinkle in his eye and his tongue in his cheek. In the course of his research he has exploded historical myths and added to the store of knowledge on the subject. Sprod, an Australian with a sense of humour in the best tradition of Punch - to which he is a regular contributor - has captured the lighter side of the extraordinary techniques employed by human beings to keep themselves clean. In addition to its entertainment and educational value, 'The Tale of the Tub' includes a useful guide to the most interesting baths and spas in England and Wales. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing to rear endpapers. Dust Jacket is fully intact, but has small holes or chips down flap edges and other signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Red titles spine & front; blue cloth; illustrated by b/w. drawings. Illustrator: George Napier Sprod. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Humour; History. Inventory No: 3690.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. George Sprod (illustrator). First Edition. Has all the first edition points. A collection of great limericks by the second son of Oscar Wilde, superbly illutrated by Sprod. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. george sprod (illustrator). First published in 1962, in fine with near fine dj, dj has price cut out and very light edge wear, a light old book-mildew smell.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good +. AUSTRALIAN MILITARY World War II POW -This book was 35 years, take a year or two, in the making? Why so long.longer than the gestation of an elephant?It was years before the ex-prisoners could forget the horrors of those years of incarceration and admit that anything humorous had occurred. But as the years faded humour, often of a grisly kind, began to emerge.All aboard the Burma Railway, folks, here you can be privileged to meet such unsavoury characters as 'Boss-eyes', 'Dracula', 'Mr Peters the Ice Cream Man' and the 'Angry Ant' among the guards, and, among their reluctant charges any number of Snowys, Loftys, Shortys and Bluies. Not forgetting the memorable Tattooed Soldier, Rusty the Olympo Swimmo, the Man Outside Hoyts (Happy Harry Smith) and that palpable pest the Man from Tamworth. 70, [18] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. #130126 SCARCE Australian prisoners of war. Singapore. Changi, 1942-1945. Stories, anecdotes World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Anecdotes Prisoners of war -- Singapore -- Changi -- Anecdotes Prisoners of war -- Australia -- Anecdotes Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

1st edition stiff wrappers As New lge. octavo 88pp., illustrations, Fascinating account of some of the humerous aspects of life in Changi Camp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Sprod, George (illustrator). Foxing side edge of book.; Former contributor to Punch. Domestic life and British manners with a humourous twist originally broadcast talks. 250gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 106 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very good copy, digital photos available.

1st edition dust jacket As New small octavo 128pp., b/w plates, text ills., index, Autobiography of the famous Changi cartoonist.