{"product_id":"9781845131968-secondhand-scouts-in-bondage-and-other-books-from-an-innocent-age","title":"Scouts in Bondage: And Other Books from an Innocent Age","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition.  See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.  A description of our secondhand books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Michael Bell\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 96\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the books illustrated in this irresistible little volume were collected by Michael Bell when he owned an antiquarian bookshop in Lewes. His criterion was simple: these were old books that raised a grin if not a guffaw from his customers as soon as they saw them. Some are simply mystifying like the enigmatic \"Book of Blank Maps\"; bizarre like Frances E. Willard's perfectly straight-faced account, \"How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle\"; or simply evoke a world which has long since vanished like Paulo Montegazza's manual on \"The Art of Taking a Wife\". Sometimes it is the combination of title and cover artwork that does the trick, but most frequent of all is the title that now conveys a meaning quite at odds with the author's original intentions, the boy's story \"Invisible Dick\", for example, or another children's novel, \"How Nell Scored\".","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44275175358683,"sku":"9781845131968-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/md30907870438.jpg?v=1695366059","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781845131968-secondhand-scouts-in-bondage-and-other-books-from-an-innocent-age","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}