Crossland Bert (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bentley, Nicolas; Goodall, J S; Thomas, Bert; et al (illustrator). 768pp, illustrated black and white frontispiece, 16 line drawn illustrations. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, blind embossed motif on front, top text block edge sprayed red; red and white patterned endpapers. 8vo. Spine ends and corners rubbed; cloth wearing. Text block edges lightly tanned. Free endpapers tanned, water stain on rear endpaper affecting the page margins of the last half of the book. Otherwise a neat, bright and tight volume. Fifty humorous tales by various authors including A J Allen, Bartimeus, Agatha Christie and A A Milne.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Nicolas Bentley and J S Goodall Nicolas Bentley and J S Goodall and Bert Thomas and Ernest Wallcousins et al (illustrator). First Edition. A very heavy book of 768pp. Red cloth covered boards with a Jester's Head logo to the front is a little rubbbed to the top end of the spine. Full page b + w illustrations by several artists, including Nicolas Bentley. Internally clean and sound. Short humourous stories - including Agatha Christie, Chesterton, Arlen, Belloc, Dickens, Wilde, A A Milne, Edith Nesbit, Dorothy Parker and PG Wodehouse etc.

Condition: Very good minus. First Edition. First edition of this rare self-published Jazz Age guide to quitting smoking, addressed to the lay reader. An early book on tobacco cessation, focusing almost entirely on its deleterious health effects and recognizing its addictive qualities - in stark contrast to most other approaches from the period (and before), which typically objected on grounds of temperance or morality. Crossland's approach is uncommonly scientific, anticipating not only the coming medical consensus of the 1950s and '60s, but also recognizing the pernicious influence of advertising on tobacco adoption - a combination that presages Surgeon General Luther L. Terry's landmark 1964 report "Smoking and Health." We find little about Crossland in archival and genealogical records and OCLC does not record the title. A rare, early, and prescient work on nicotine addiction. 7.5'' x 5.5''. Original full red cloth with gilt titles. 160 pages. Bit shaken, worn. Overall, sound.