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TRUFFLE EATER. By Oistros. Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures.

London: Arthur Barker, Ltd, No date. (1933). 19 leaves printed on one side only. Illustrated with vignette to title and numerous illustrations throughout in line by Archibald Louis Charles Savory. Original cream boards; pictorial upper cover illustrated in brown with blue lettering. Large 8vo. First edition. Covers a little dust-soiled; head & heel of spine a little worn; else a very good and important copy of this anti-Nazi Struwwelpeter parody. Presentation copy from the illustrator, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ‘To Marjorie Cold [?] with love from the illustrator of these vitriolic pages A Savory. Oct. 1933.’ Presentation copies are rare. Savoury also illustrated another book by Humbert Wolfe, called Stings and Wings, published in 1935, and wrote and illustrated a book entirely of his own creation entitled, 'The Brighter Side of Cricket, in 1933. Baumgartner II.18.

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