The Funny Bone

London: Elek Books,, 1956.

First Edition. Original green cloth with the excellent, unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly tanned at the spine with a small stain mark near the foot. A near fine copy. Short stories and essays arranged in three sections; the first is a collection of his burlesques, described by Malcolm Muggeridge as the work of 'the best living parodist, in which he takes off writers such as Nancy Mitford, Christopher Isherwood, P.G. Wodehouse, H.E. Bates. The second presents a selection of short stories and sketches wide ranging in subject, while the third part is an ironical medley of thoughts and impressions of a number of topis, mainly literary,