MY OLD MAN'S A DUSTMAN

First UK edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Sydney Mould illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh with a little rubbing to the spine tips. The contents, with mild offsetting to the endpapers and the author;s inscription to the front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. The text block is a little toned at the edges. Complete with the better than very good, rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper, which is lightly toned to the spine, edges, and rear panel. Not price-clipped (10s 6d net to the lower front flap).

Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper "Charles - this is / a little light reading / for after the party - / by way (as they say in / the music halls) of / complete contrast. / Wolf'. A quintessential Mankowitz novel about a cockney Don Quixote and his shellshocked Sancho Panza, named the Old Cock and Arp. Published in America under the title 'Old Soldiers Never Die" (1956).