SIMON DREW'S MARITIME NONSENSE AND OTHER AQUATIC ABSURDITIES. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,illustrated,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,green ink signature - without dedication - to title page,a price-clip to dw/dj. Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj by Simon Drew - design repeated to glossy, laminated boards with colour pictorial illustrated endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present - virtually as new.Top+ fore-edges bright and pristine,as are the contents - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread other than my own collation.UK,slim, small 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,illustrated,1st edn,3-48pp [paginated] includes author SIGNED colour vignette illustrated title page,10 double-page colour illustrations,and 23 single-page colour illustrations.
Want more Simon DREW titles? For similar and other titles,either SIGNED or not,1sts or reprints,then please search my SIGNED and MODERN FIRSTS2 catalogues. Another title in Simon Drew's highly acclaimed series and readers already familiar with his earlier work will not be disappointed in this, his latest offering. Inspired by that,visual and verbal puns where the boundaries between sense and nonsense are not just blurred but usually absent.
If you've ever wanted to say Halo Sailor to someone wandering along the quayside,this book will show you how.If you've ever wondered where the Lost Ark went, then 'Maritime Nonsense' will introduce you to the Waders of the Lost Ark. You will find profound poems,such as A lion B hind C lions.This work has never been published before (and will probably never be published again!).It's not very often that a book of this nature appears on our bookshelves; it's not very often that sailors find such a manual packed with useful information.If you want to know what to take on a long voyage this book will tell you.
How would you cook Mole Mariniere? All these questions must be answered.This isn't the book to do it.
Past books in this popular series have examined subjects as varied as music,cats,art,birds and animals which have each,in their turn,been subjected to that special Simon Drew 'treatment'.
With its echoes of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Drew's work invites the reader to suspend disbelief and join him in a bizarre world where nothing is quite what it seems and just about anything is possible.See also rja1994, rja920, rja463113 and rja463213.Others in series include:'A Book of Bestial Nonsense', 'Nonsense in Flight', 'Still Warthogs Run Deep', 'The Puffin's Advice' [rja920], 'Cat with Piano Tuna', 'Camp David: Nonsense in Art' [rja31368 and rja463213] and 'Handel's Warthog Music'.
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