Rab Noolas (4 results)

Facsimile reprint. Royal 8vo. [xiii] + 231pp. B/w. illustrations. Original boards. Pictorial yellow d/w. with faded pink lettering to spien, rubbed. US$22.

Beige Buckram. Condition: Very Good. None. Limited First Edition. 232 pp. Covers a little rubbedwith knocked corners. Endpapers tanned commensurate with age. This is a Limited Edition Number 315 of 600 copies and the contents are very good indeed. Unmarked internally with no inscriptions. Slight offsetting of frontis engraving. The conents start with contributions from Genesis then through Pliny, Plato, Seneca and Petronius before Dickens, Norman Douglas and James Joyce (inter alia) An enjoyable romp. Hal Collins (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A limited edition of this satirical work on drunkards and drunkenness, with illustrations throughout. Limited to six hundred copies, of which this is number five hundred and forty. Illustrated throughout. An anthology in praise of drinking, with collections of writings on drinking and drunkenness from across the ages. With contributions from Aristotle, Plato, Langland, Skelton, Shakespeare, Pepys, Boswell, Nimrod, Dickens, and even the book of Genesis. Written by Philip Arnold Heseltine, typically known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock but writing under the name Rab Noolas in this work ("Saloon Bar" backwards), a British composer and music critic. Illustrated by Harold Collins, a British artist and musician. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. Hal Collins (illustrator). book.…

Limited to 600 numbered copies, of which this is number 133. With contributions from Genesis through Pliny, Plato, Seneca and Petronius before Dickens, Norman Douglas and James Joyce. Notably, the work contains 'All Off for a Buster' by James Joyce, the closing pages of Episode XIV of Ulysses. Limited edition, number 133 of 600 copies; 4to (29 x 20.5 cm); illustrated throughout by Hal Collins, occasional light offsetting from illustrations, some offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's tan buckram, blue lettering to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with the original pictorial dust-jacket printed in blue, some creasing and short closed tears to edges, else very good. …