Old Brandy and Cherry Bounce A Ballad of Exmoor, Colchester: Cullingford & Co. Ltd., privately printed for the author [circa 1943]. 8° (203 x 127 mm). Original printed wrappers. Signed 'Alfred. J. Munnings' (on the half-title page) and further inscribed 'Also found! Best wishes & all good luck & happiness in 1960 from/Black Knight I.S.' (on the half-title page) with a pencil, black ink and ball point pen sketch of a standing horse on the blank margins pp. 16-17.

The illustration of the horse Cherry Bounce, one of Munnings's favourites, relates to stanza 31 of the poem:

'With one loud snort the frightened mare,
Her nostrils blown in full dilate,
Stood head and tail erect in air,
Then with a bound she cleared the gate!!'

(see A.J. Munnings, The Finish, Bungay, pp. 344-49).

Black Knight was a black pekinese which belonged to Violet, Lady Munnings. Lady Munnings adored the little dog and wrote it's memoirs Diary of a Freeman in which it diaried it's many adventures, including accompanying Violet to Buckingham Palace for Munnings's investiture (in a little black velvet evening bag), to a royal Garden Party and to a party before the wedding of Princess Elizabeth.

Even after his death in 1955 at the age of ten, Black Knight continued to accompany his mistress for she had him stuffed (see J. Goodman, What a Go!, London, 1988, pp. 246-47).