GOOD to VERY GOOD CONDITION

This sale is for a vintage hardback edition entitled “Mr. Punch and the Services,” with 232 illustrations and a tipped in frontispiece in COLOURS by Arthur Watts.

It was published by Arrangement with The Proprietors of “Punch”, by the Educational Book Company Ltd., of London.  It says “The New Punch Library” edited by J. A. Hammerton “presenting the cream of national humour contributed to “Punch” by our leading comic draughtsmen and humour writers from the year 1900 to the present day”.  There is no publication date given – it is almost certainly early 1930’s.

The illustrators in this wonderful book include:

·       G. Denholme Armour

·       H. M. Bateman

·       Lewis Baumer

·       Philip Baynes

·       Harold Beards

·       George Belcher

·       J. L. C. Booth

·       L. R. Brightwell

·       H. M. Brock

·       Reginald Cleaver

·       J. H. Dowd

·       Lionel Edwards

·       Peter Fraser

·       D. L. Ghilchik

·       Charles Grave

·       Frank R. Grey

·       Frank Hart

·       A. E. Horne

·       G. Jennis

·       David Low

·       Wilmot Lunt

·       D. Macpherson

·       A. Wallis Mills

·       Arthur Moreland

·       George Morrow

·       Will Owen

·       Sir Bernard Partridge

·       Charles Pears

·       Fred Pegram

·       L. Raven-Hill

·       Frank Reynolds

·       Ernest H. Shepard

·       C. A. Shepperson

·       A. T. Smith

·       Edgar Spenceley

·       G. L. Stampa

·       C. S. Strange

·       Bert Thomas

·       J. H. Thorpe

·       F. H. Townsend

·       Arthur Watts

…and more…  There is an Arthur Watts coloured plate “Captured at Jutland”.

The authors include Anthony Armstrong, R. P. Mountney, Paymaster Lt. Comdr. C. A. Maurice-Jones R.N., Capt, Major C. S. Jarvis, Major M. Trew, Miss C. Fox-Smith, and more …

The book measures 8 inches x 6.25 inches and has 240 pages (including illustrations). 

The book is in good, neat condition for its age, with minor wear and a bump to the spine of the original two-tone cloth hardback cover. There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing pages.  There is no dust-jacket.

A wonderfully illustrated vintage edition.

COMBINED POSTAGE - ALL BIDDERS: We offer 20% off the total postage & packing/‘shipping’ for additional items after the cost of the heaviest book – please wait for a combined invoice.

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Buyer to pay postage & packing

For UK Postage: 2nd Class/Parcels = £3.10;

or 1st Class = £3.90

European Union Postage: = 6.95 GB Pounds

USA Postage: Air Mail (USA) = 13.45 GB Pounds

Rest of the World Postage: Air Mail (Anywhere else in the World) = 10.70 GB Pounds

Surface Mail (Anywhere in the World) = 13.20 GB Pounds

Unwinsbooks have held down shipping prices from 2013-2020 in spite of small increases in postage costs.  However, Royal Mail Prices dramatically changed on 1 July 2020, as a result of exceptional cost increases outside of their control, so we are reluctantly having to pass on pricing increases for parcels being sent overseas (primarily USA, New Zealand, Australia and the Rest of the World). 

These costs are a direct result of: 

• An increase of more than 100% in the fees the US Postal Service (USPS) charges for the delivery of international mail.

• Securing air freight at inflated market costs due to a 95% reduction in air passenger flights globally. This has not affected domestic or postage within the EU.

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