Caryl Brahms – Curiouser and Curiouser – First Edition 1932
£100.00
A first edition, first printing of Curiouser and Curiouser by Caryl Brahms, published by George G. Harrap, London in 1932. A near fine copy inscribed in black ink to the verso of the front free end paper and signed and dated in black ink to the half-title page, ghosting to the half-title page, the boards bound in the publishers original red cloth with some shelf-wear to the rear board, rubbing to the extremities, pushing to the spine tips and toning to the spine with some light spotting and toning to the text block.
Published in 1932, Curiouser and Curiouser is Caryl Brahms’s third collection of light verse for children. Playful, whimsical and knowingly absurd, its poems explore childhood imagination through comic rhymes, fanciful situations and gently mischievous observations. The book belongs to the same inter-war tradition as A. A. Milne, combining apparent simplicity with wit intended to amuse adults as well as younger readers. It offers an early glimpse of Brahms’s distinctive humour, theatricality and comic timing too.
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A first edition, first printing of Curiouser and Curiouser by Caryl Brahms, published by George G. Harrap, London in 1932. A near fine copy inscribed in black ink to the verso of the front free end paper and signed and dated in black ink to the half-title page, ghosting to the half-title page, the boards bound in the publishers original red cloth with some shelf-wear to the rear board, rubbing to the extremities, pushing to the spine tips and toning to the spine with some light spotting and toning to the text block.
Published in 1932, Curiouser and Curiouser is Caryl Brahms’s third collection of light verse for children. Playful, whimsical and knowingly absurd, its poems explore childhood imagination through comic rhymes, fanciful situations and gently mischievous observations. The book belongs to the same inter-war tradition as A. A. Milne, combining apparent simplicity with wit intended to amuse adults as well as younger readers. It offers an early glimpse of Brahms’s distinctive humour, theatricality and comic timing too.
