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New York, Oxford, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Hardback with Dust Jacket. First Printing. With errata slip tipped in. Full brown cloth binding with title information to spine in silver. Illustrated dust jacket has been price clipped. With many illustrations. 59 pages with index. AS NEW. All corners pointed. Binding tight and square. Without tears, bumps, creases or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. Dust jacket same. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Oxford University Press, 1982-10-01. hardcover. Good. 1x5x1. Chesterton, G. K. Dust Jacket has some wear. Staining to inner pages. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The cover and spine have some wear.

London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Chesterton, G K. First edition, first printing. xxvi, 60pp, copiously illustrated with full page drawings and page decorations. Complete with bound in erratum slip. In tan cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Cloth unevenly faded along upper edges, gently rounded at spine ends. Hint of toning to page block edges. In its original, price-clipped, dust jacket, gently rubbed at edges. Many of Clerihew Bentley's so-called 'Clerihews' had been previously published but a republication in 1981, and a competition, led to the discovery of one of Clerihew Bentley's original notebooks containing previously unpublished material, all delightfully illustrated by his friend, G K Chesterton. Most of the Clerihews were by Bentley but the notebook also contained contributions by others, all faithfully reproduced in facsimile here.