8vo. Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is number five. Flat signed to dedication page. With a portrait frontispiece. 255pp, [1]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of journalist Hannen Swaffer's (1879-1962) collection of entertaining anecdotes of notable contemporary public figures, including Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Charlie Chaplin, Rudyard Kipling, and Edgar Wallace (who provides the foreword).