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)
PERIODICALS
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