STRAW IN THE HAIR

First edition thus. Publisher's original yellow cloth with brown titles to the spine, in the Victor Reinganum illustrated dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents, with a small ink stamp to the front endpaper and with a faint signature beneath and to the front pastedown, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Complete with the attractive, original dustwrapper which is a little rubbed and nicked to the extremities. Correctly priced 7s 6d net to the front flap.

A collection of nonsensical and surrealist verse from the likes of W. H. Auden, Patrick Barrington, Hilaire Belloc. E. C. Bentley, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, G. K. Chesterton, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash and others, brilliantly illustrated by Victor Reinganum in black and white throughout.