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Nicolas Clerihew Bentley

Male : Book illustrator. Son of E C Bentley. Director of Andre Deutsch from 1950
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Highgate, London

Date of Birth : 1907 Date of Death : 1978 Age : 71

Education : University College Sch, London & Heatherley's Sch of Art
Kingsley AMIS : On Drink (1972 Cape)
Michael BARSLEY : This England 1940-1946
(1946 Statesman)
Hilaire BELLOC : New Cautionary Tales
(1930 Duckworth) (1930 Harper)
+ Signed Ltd Ed 110
Ladies and Gentlemen
(1932 Duckworth)
Cautionary Tales
(1940)
E T R BENSON & Betty E ASQUITH : Foreigners, or The World in a Nutshell
(1935 Gollancz)
Muddling Through, or Britain in a Nutshell
(1936 Gollancz)
How to be Famous, or How to be Famous in a Nutshell
(1937 Gollancz)
E C BENTLEY : More Biography
(1929 Methuen)
Baseless Biography
(1939)
Clerihews Complete
(1951) - et al
Nicolas C BENTLEY : All Fall Down
(1932Nicholson & Watson)
The Beastly Birthday Book
(1934 Methuen)
Ready Refusals
(1935)
Die ? I Thought I'd Laugh
(1936 Methuen)
The Time of My Life
(1937)
Le Sport
(1937 Gollancz)
Ballet-Hoo
(1937 Cresset Press)
Gammon and Espionage
(1938)
The Week-End Wants a Guest
(1938)
The Week-end Worries a Hostess
(1938)
Le Sport
(1939)
The Tongue-Tied Canary
(1948 Gollancz)
Third Party Risk
(1953 MJ 10/6)
The Floating Dutchman
(1954 Michael Joseph)
How Can you Bear to be Human ?
(1957 Deutsch)
A Version of the Truth
(1960 Deutsch)
Book of Birds : An Avian Alphabet
(1965 Deutsch)
The Victorian Scene
(1968 Weidenfeld)
Golden Sovereigns
(1970)
Tales from Shakespeare
(1972 Beazley £1.95)
E M DELAFIELD : The Diary of a Provincial Lady
(1979 Folio Society)
Lawrence DURRELL : Stiff Upper Lip
(1958 Faber)
Sauve Qui Peut
(1969)
T S ELIOT : Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
(1941 Faber)
B EVANS : Comfortable Words
(1963)
Roy FULLER : Poor Roy
(1976)
Barbara HASTINGS : Lobby Lobster
(1943 Faber)
Mustapha Monkey
(1945 Faber)
Hugh KINGSMILL : The Worst of Love
(1931)
Eric LINKLATER : The Wind on the Moon
(1944 Macmillan)
Dorothy LOVELL : Silvanus Goes to Sea
(1943 Faber)
In the Land of the Thinsies
(1944)
George MIKES : How to be an Alien
(1946 Wingate)
How to Scrape Skies
(1948)
Milk and Honey
(1950 Wingate 7/6)
Wisdom for Others
(1950 Wingate)
East is East
(1958)
How to be Inimitable
(1960 Deutsch)
Tango
(1961)
Eureka ! : Rummaging in Greece
(1965)
How to be Decadent
(1965 Deutsch)
Tsi-Tsa : Biography of a Cat
(1978 Deutsch)

J B MORTON
The Beachcomber Omnibus
(1931 Muller)
By the Way
(1931)
1933 and Still Going Wrong !
(1932)
Morton's Folly
(1933)
Here and Now
(1947)
Damon RUNYON : More Than Somewhat
(1937 Constable)
John R RUSSELL : The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs
(1965 Peter Owen)
Leonard RUSSELL
Parody Party
(1936 Hutchinson)
Press Gang
(1937)
Jerrard TICKELL : Gentlewomen Aim to Please
(1938 Routledge)
Auberon WAUGH : The Diaries of
(1976 Deutsch)
The Reminiscences of Captain gronow
(1977 Folio Society)
Stanley B WHITEHEAD : Brush Up Your Gardening
(1943 Dent 3/6)
H E WRIGHT : There Was a Moon
(1934 Bodley Head)

Books by Bentley
A Choice of Ornaments
The Tongue-Tied Canary
The Floating Dutchman
(1950 Michael Joseph)
Third Party Risk
(1953 MJ)
Nicolas Bentley : A Version of the Truth
(1960 Deutsch 16/-)
Inside Information
(1974)

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