One Fat Englishman childrens-books text block clean and free

text block clean and free of any old inscriptions or owner names

And why do they love him

Original blue cloth with inlaid photograph to front board

particularly skyscraper and church design

) and 28 text illustrations

One Fat Englishman childrens-books text block clean and freeLondon : Victor Gollancz, 1963. First Edition. Publisher's red cloth with the excellent, price clipped dust jacket. Small stain to rear panel and a couple of nicks at head of backstrip. No old inscriptions. A VG+ copy. Comic British masterpiece about the 1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s and a final scion of a disintegrating Old World empire encountering its upstart New World offspring. One of Kingsley Amis's greatest and most