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Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Second Impression. 1954. Second impression of the first edition. 352pp. and black and white in-text drawings by Ronald Searle. Patrick Gordon Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy (1913-1980) was an Anglo-Irish journalist, humorist, television personality, and peer. He published many books, mostly collections of humorous pieces originally published in newspapers and magazines. The present volume contains fifty-nine short stories, several of which had previously appeared in other books. The book is bound in the original greyish cloth covered boards with red titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling and patchy faint damp marking to the boards and spine. The bottom of the spine is lightly bumped and a home repair has been carried out to a 1/2" split in the cloth at the top of the front spine edge. The contents are tight and clean with a few foxing marks on the endpapers and a name written on the top edge of the front free endpaper. Ronald Searle (ilustrador).…