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Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell.
Benson, Theodora and Betty Askwith, Nicolas Bentley drew the pictures.
London: 1936, Victor Gollancz.
Signed Edition. 139 pp. HC. 4to.
Illustrated: Drawings by Bentley, Nicolas.
[Humour - Satire - Cartoon]
A fourth printing (first ed. 1935), signed by both authors, Benson and Askwith on half title. Preface. Grossly exaggerated and satirized bias, cliché and prejudice, funny but, to someone without a sense of humour 150% "politically incorrect." Blue cloth over board, end papers are the author's sketch map of the voyages.
Spine title label lacks a small piece. A tattered front of the dust jacket is laid in. The cloth has some wear at edges and corners. Block is clean , binding firm.

ID: 992145

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