Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [32] Pages, Illustrated. A Complete And Soundly Bound Book But In Worn Covers; The Spine Especially So. Not Ex Library. Overall Only "Fair".
Seller: NorWest Books (UK), Minehead, United Kingdom
Laurence Whistler. Oho!. The Bodley Head, 1946.
Price: US$16.94 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1946. No Edition Stated. Unpaginated. Pictorial dust jacket with red lettering over matching boards. The Drawings by Rex Whistler. B&W illustrations throughout. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to joints and loss to spine ends. Notable foxing, tanning and soiling to boards. Clipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Notable foxing, tanning and soiling to DJ.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Laurence Whistler (Author), Rex Whistler (Illustrator). Oho!. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1946.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Binding is starting to loosen but still intact. Spine has ends missing extending 1" each end, the rest is present but coming away from covers. General grime to boards and interiors consistent with its age, NO scribbles/inscriptions of any kind.
Seller: Hameston Books, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$30.80 + shipping
Description: 4to. First edition. Dust wrapper, rubbed to edges. Good condition.
Seller: Sportspages, Farnham, United Kingdom
Laurence WHISTLER. OHO!. John Land The Bodley Head, London, 1946.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Whistler brothers joined forces to produce this ever-popular novelty with the weirdly reversible faces, each one accompanied by a teasing verse. Paper covered boards worn at corners. No markings or inscription. 19 x 25cms. We regret we are not able to dispatch orders to Denmark. All profits to Amnesty International.
Seller: Books for Amnesty, Malvern, Great Malvern, United Kingdom
. OHO! The drawings by Rex Whistler; The words by Laurence Whistler. Bodley Head, 1946.
Price: US$35.27 + shipping
Description: 4° 30 S. Hardcover gut. Zust., "Vorderseite" leicht beschädigt Certain Two-Faced Individuals. The Drawings by Rex Whistler. The Words by Laurence Whistler London, Bodley Head 1946, 30 Seiten Auf Wunsch gerne Foto via E-mail. Sprache: Deutschu 0,600 gr.
Seller: Neusser Buch & Kunst Antiquariat, Neuss, NRW, Germany
Whistler, Laurence & Rex John Whistler. Oho!. The Bodley Head, 1946.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket worn w/ a number of small losses and splits at edges/corners, more notable loss at top-edge of front panel, age-toned, minute flecked staining; Pageslightly age-toned, minimal spotting and light offsetting on endpapers, B&W illustrations throughout; Biographical newspaper clippings on Rex and Lawrence Whistler laid in front [The Independent, both dated 1994; Binding tight. Reversible text by Laurence Whistler and drawings by Rex Whistler. ; 7.5 x 9.75"; 34 pages
Seller: Walden Books, London, United Kingdom
Laurence Whistler and Rex Whistler. OHO!. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1946.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. First Edition. Pages tanned, else a very good hardback in a foxed, rubbed and darkened jacket that has tiny spot of loss at the spine with one [of four] price clipped.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
WHISTLER, Rex; WHISTLER, Laurence. OHO!. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head., 1946.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Original illustrated paper-covered boards, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout in colour by Rex Whistler. A better than very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities a little rubbed, the foot of the spine with a short closed tear. The contents, with very faint offsetting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased original dustwrapper which is a little dusty and has a few short closed tears to the extremities. Not price-clipped (5s. to the both flaps). An unusual book featuring Rex Whistler's 'Reversible Faces' accompanied by his brother's humorous verse. The book can be read either way up, right down the the blurb on the dustwrapper flaps. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition 1946. Some page corners very lightly creased. Endpapers browned where dustwrapper overlaps. Publishers pictorial paper covered boards very clean and bright. The dustwrapper is very slightly foxed and spine darkened, top and bottom of spine and corners very lightly rubbed, else very good copy. Not price clipped.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$93.04 + shipping
Description: First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (matching pictorial boards). Physically 9¾" x 7½" (0.6 kg); 0pp; Illustrated by Rex Whistler; Includes: Line drawings; Illustrated lining papers; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #188499|| Condition: Good+ in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Plain paper dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with small tear to the spine. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
Laurence Whistler. Oho!. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1946.
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition of this unique reversible work, containing a selection of grotesque portraits by Rex Whistler. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.A complete reversible work, with illustrations and text printed to be read in either direction, with no front or back to the work.'Oho!' is a collection of grotesque illustrations, accompanied by text.Illustrated by Rex Whistler, a British painter who was killed in action during World War Two.With text by his brother, Laurence Whistler. In the original publisher's paper covered boars, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. A couple of light marks to the boards. Dustwrapper with a few light marks, and a touch of edgewear. Light spots to the reverse of the dustwrapper. Internally, firmly bound Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Laurence Whistler. Oho!. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1946.
Price: US$109.08 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A humorous first edition of this collection of reversible faces by Rex Whistler, accompanied by verses from his brother Laurence. First edition, in the publisher's original pictorial boards, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. A complete reversible work, with illustrations and text printed to be read in either direction, with no front or back to the work. Illustrations by British artist Rex Whistler who was known for his mural artwork. With text by Rex's brother, British poet Laurence Whistler to accompany the drawings, capturing the spirit of the two individuals. These interesting and grotesque reversible faces are both amusing and serious at the same time. In the publisher's original pictorial boards, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with light bumping to the extremities and the occasional mark to the boards. Bookseller label to the paste down. Dust wrapper is smart, with edge wear and the odd closed tear, more significant to the spine and the extremities. Sunning to the spine of the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Laurence and Rex Whistler. Oho, The Upside Down Book.. The Bodley head., London., 1946.
Price: US$109.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 30 pages with 15 topsy-turvy heads by Rex, each to be viewed either way and verses by Laurence his brother. The wrapper repeats the paper boards design. Some offsetting to endpapers from flaps, a slight loss at tips of spine on wrapper and a light dustiness, contents fine and priced at 5/-. Square octavo. *1st edition and can be read either way up, two title pages front and back. Published posthumously as he was killed aiding his troops in 1944 after predicting his own death. He remains one of the great poster artists and British Modernist School artists.
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
Lawrence Whistler. Oho! Certain Two-faced Individuals. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1946.
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A humourous first edition reversible copy of Oho! Certain Two-faced Individuals created by brothers Rex and Laurence Whistler. This is a reversible copy of Rex Whistler's Reversible Faces with verses written by Laurence Whistler that capture the spirit of the two individuals.Laurence Whistler was a British engraver and poet and Rex Whistler was a British artist who painted murals and sociery portraits.In the publisher's original unclipped dustwrapper. In the publisher's original hardback binding. Externally, smart with some fading to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the publisher's original unclipped dustwrapper that is a little worn with fading and marks to the wraps and spine. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
WHISTLER, LAURENCE. OHO!. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1946.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original illustrated boards with illustrated dust jacket. The jacket has some chips and some minor fraying but overall remains very nice. Illustrated throughout by Rex Whistler. An ingenius work that can (and should) be read in both directions. The illustrations work either way. Rex Whistler was killed near Caen in the days following the Normany Invasion. The illustrations were executed in the 1930's. Near Fine / Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
WHISTLER, Rex. Oho!. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1946.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 15 illustrations of "reversible faces" which present a different image when viewed upside-down. 30 accompanying verses by Laurence Whistler. Thin 8vo , pictorial cream boards, d.w. London: John Lane/Bodley Head, (1946). First Edition. Fine copy of this clever novelty book, in a near fine dust wrapper with one chip at the bottom edge.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Rex and Laurence Whistler. Oho. The Bodley Head, 1946.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1946 The Bodley Head hardback 1st edition 1st impression very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. A collection in book form of Rex Whistler's 'reversible' faces, text by his brother Laurence. The entries can be read right-side-up and up-side-down.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Original pictorial boards with the unclipped dust-jacket (with price of 5s.net on flap). Illustrated by Whistler with fifteen 'grotesque and amusing faces' and 30 accompanying verses, printed to be read right way up and upside down. Jacket a touch worn on spine, book itself really clean and bright, light bruise to foot of the spine, but with no internal markings or old inscriptions. A Fine copy in near Fine jacket. First edition of the cleverest of reversible books. Whistler's fifteen portraits can be viewed either way up and magically transform into quite different characters for children.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
REX Whistler & Laurence Whistler - FIRST EDITION. OHO!. Bodley Head London, 1946.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: BRILLIANTLY illustrated with 15 reversible heads and 30 associated verses, original pictorial boards, dust jacket slightly worn, and now protected. Not price clipped. First edition of this ingenious book, which the publishers proudly claim, "We make bold to announce that OHO! Is unique among books. For it has no front or back, or rather two of each. So the reader is enabled to enter the Whistler Brothers' gallery in either direction." Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$197.16 + shipping
Description: Dust jacket slightly damaged - good copy. (Lager 1B) AA56916B7747 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500
Seller: KUNSTHAUS-STUTTGART, Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$202.12 + shipping
Description: Reversible illustrations and cover design by Rex Whistler 4to Fine copy in very slightly worn dust-wrapper Pictorial boards, title-page and end-papers "arranged by Laurence Whistler"
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Rex and Laurence Whistler. Oho!. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1946.
Price: US$205.32 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A first edition of this collection of illustrations from Rex Whistler, described by his brother Laurence. Printed to be read upside-down and the correct way up. Illustrated throughout with Whistler's 'grotesque and amusing faces'. In paper-covered binding. Externally, smart, with just some light edgewear. Dustwrapper is smart, with just some slight edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom