The omnibus believe it or not! : A modern book of wonders, miracles, freaks, monstrosities and almost-impossibilities, / written, illustrated and proved by Robert L. Ripley, or Rip'!
Ripley, Robert L
Category
Books
Date
1934
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256623
Summary
Bibliographic description
384 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / from / CDLH / Anglesey Abbey / March 1939" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's red cloth; black lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Ripley, Robert L, author