A presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper: ‘To Wally - with very best wishes - Humphrey Lyttelton’. Humphrey Lyttelton is known as both a former BBC broadcaster, host of ‘I’m sorry I haven’t a clue’, and as a jazz musician, performer of the hit single ‘Bad Penny Blues’ in 1956. Lyttelton saw service in the Second World War, allegedly coming ashore during Operaton Avalanche in Salerno with pistol in one hand and trumpet in the other. After the war Lyttelton attended Camberwell Art College and it was here that he made the acquaintance of the recipient of this copy, Wally Fawkes, fellow jazz musician and cartoonist, creator alongside Lyttelton of the strip ‘Flook’ which was to run for 35 years in the Daily Mail. A fine copy with some foxing to the edges of the text-block and glue offsetting to the free endpapers.
