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Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. 151 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First paperback edition. Profusely illustrated. *** "William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) dreamed of a romantic life as an itinerant landscape painter. Instead, he remained in North London and became the greatest comic draughtsman of the century, and one of those rare individuals whose names have entered the language as adjectives. Although his name is now synonymous with any complicated, ramshackle mechanical apparatus for doing something relatively simple, the true Heath Robinson contraption was thought out with a child's solemn logic, executed with a craftsman's care, and accompanied by the ultimate in deadpan captions." - Publisher. Size: 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Unclipped: good. No. 139; despite absence of date, the price on inner panel of d.j. indicates it was published in the late 1960s or early 1970s; 622 p., plus catalog, clean and unmarked anywhere, even on pictorial end pages; bindingt firm; clean unfaded morning-glory blue boards with still brigh silver gilt printing on spine have minimal wear, embossed colophon on front; glossy d.j. with eagle and cornucopia image in sepia are clean but have sunning on spien and fold creases.…