Temple Michael Henry (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Sixth printing of this popular and entertaining parody of Alice In Wonderland, satirising the government of Arthur Balfour. Binding opening a little and endpapers toned, but all in good internal order otherwise. Decorated green cloth rather marked (inc ink blots), lightly worn, and dulled to spine. Auction lot label fixed to spine. Best regarded as a good reading copy. 12mo. xvi. 150pp. S.R. [J Stafford Ransome] (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Decorative pale green cloth (similar to the Alice in Wonderland bindings). Some marking to the cloth, a few marks in places internally, overpulled a bit in the centre, hinges good. Pages; XVI, 150, (2). Illustrated throughout, by one of the authors (Ransome) in a similar style to Tenniel's illustrations in Alice. The adventures of Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Bannerman and his colleagues, in taking Britain down a foreign policy rabbit hole, (which started with the 2nd Boer War). The caterpillar (species- Winstoniensis Vulgaris) is Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister is Clara, the red queen- Joseph Chamberlain, etc. ('but is it any good giving people advice when they don't understand, says Clara in a puzzled tone, 'of course it is, answered the caterpillar, 'it teaches them how stupid they are'). Ransome, J. Stafford. (illustrator).…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 88pp. Fine in bright and fresh condition with original belly band with a tiny scrape on the front and a small nick at the fold. The first issue of this literary magazine with a contribution from Henry Miller, "The Durrell of the Black Book days," along with Anaïs Nin, Richard Aldington, Alfred Perles, Frederic J. Temple, Edwin Mullins, Loys Masson, Armand Guibert, Elisabeth Janvier, Philip Jerome, Serge Gavronsky, Michael Baldwin, and Henri-Louis De La Grange.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first editions of two highly entertaining parodies of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass'. Both volumes are present in the first edition, first impression.Illustrated throughout by S. R. - journalist J. Stafford Ransome - after John Tenniel's style.Published under the name Caroline Lewis, a pseudonym for collaborators Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and Michael Henry Temple.Through utilising Carroll's tale, these volumes present a criticism of the British Government's involvement in the Second Boer War and other domestic and foreign policy choices. Prime Minister Arthur Balfour is represented by Clara, a stand-in for Alice. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, bright. Back strips lightly age toned, with bumping to back strip heads and tails. Small holes to cloth at back strip tails. 'Lost' lacking front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. S.R. [J. Stafford Ransome] (illustrator). book. …