Bill the Minder

Literature & Fiction

Robinson, W.Heath

Forder, Timothy

Classics

HarperCollins, Publishers

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Hodder & Stoughton Childrens Division

While Uncle Lubin naps, his beloved nephew Peter is carried off by a loathsome bag-bird. This playful and richly imaginative tale recounts Uncle Lubin's hot pursuit, as he searches everywhere from the moon to the bottom of the ocean. The clever hero invents an air-ship as well as a submersible sea-boat, the better to triumph over a sea-serpent, an iceberg, and other fanciful obstacles. Every page of the enchanting 1902 adventure features W. Heath Robinson's remarkable pen-and-ink drawings. A leading figure from the Golden Age of book illustration, Robinson depicts the story's comic absurdities with an imaginative zest that delights readers of all ages.

The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (Dover Children's Classics)

Children's Books

Dover `

Illustrated Story Book (Beaver Books)

Beaver Books [The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited]

Full of whimsical charm, The Adventure of Uncle Lubin, present one of literature's most guileless and sincere characters. With his comically floppy hat and striped baggy stockings, gentle, serious Uncle Lubin is left in charge of his beloved nephew Peter. One fateful day, a great Bagbird swoops down while Uncle Lubin is innocently napping, whisks away the screaming child in his beak, and flies to the moon.Deeply horrified by the unexpected turn of affairs, Uncle Lubin nonetheless recognizes his duty as Peter's guardian and sets out on a series of adventures to deliver the child from the wretched bag-bird, searching high and low (literally) for the kidnapped child. His ingenuity proves boundless: he builds an air-ship to follow the bird to the moon (using his hat as a parachute to descend); he invents a submersible sea-boat to search for Peter among the mer-men and mer-children of the deep; he kills a sea-serpent by putting salt on its tail (which we all know is the only way to kill a sea-serpent). He even melts an iceberg with a candle to reach the wicked bag-bird perched mockingly on top. Eventually, little Peter and Uncle Lubin are reunited in this playful classic that reads as well today as when it was first published in England in 1902.These fantastic adventures are inextricably entwined with Robinson's detailed pen-and-ink drawing and playfully arranged text depicting, among other things, Uncle Lubin's remarkable inventions and contraptions. Robinson had a profound affection for the ridiculous, and was a genius at sensitively and inventively depicting the absurd. Readers will be enchanted by this revival, a book whose style and illustrations recall an era when children's books were delightful, inventive, and imaginative.

Adventures of Uncle Lubin

David R. Godine, Publisher

This is a collection of the comic fantasies of the great English artist William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) whose name passed into the English language during his lifetime. Most people know of and love his elementary mechanical world - ancient wooden cogwheels, intricate pulleys, fragile gantries, ingenious tunnels, magnets, and steam kettles kept on the boil by a lighted candle or two; the whole enterprise held together by knotted string and operated by serious workmen with a sprinkling of soberly top-hatted company directors in charge. Heath Robinson's world is now crystallized for all time, so long as machines remain machines and human beings need reminding that that is all they are. This volume covers the whole field of Heath Robinson's comic work in peace and war, from his first mocking anti-German propaganda in World War I down to World War II during which he died. An introduction tells the story of his life.

Inventions

Duckbacks

A collection of humorous drawings on the subject of golf which first appeared in 1923.

Humours of Golf

Sports & Outdoors

How to Make the Best of Things

Humor & Entertainment

Hunt, Cecil

Humor

Duckworth

Absurdities

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

The adventures of Uncle Lubin

The Minerva Press

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