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GILES**, [CARL]: : GILES THE EXPRESS CARTOONS 2000: 53rd Series. [1999.]

LONDON.EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS/PEDIGREE BOOKS,1999.

ISBN 9781902836126.

UK,slim,landscape 8vo wraps,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to title page. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial cartoon artwork by GILES,illustrated front stiff card cover with bright,crisp,impressed glossy, metallic red lettered author's name and other yellow lettering,blue background to spine/ backstrip and rear cover; spine with red+yellow lettering,rear cover with a smaller colour replica of front cover's cartoon and yellow lettering beneath it.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - generally sharp-cornered covers apart from front lower corner with an accidental but faint diagonal crease. Ubiquitous but minimal,superficial scoring/ indents to either cover and without any penetration.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned as usual/normal; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading crease to any pages' corner tips - possibly unread,other than my own collation.UK,slim landscape 8vo wraps,1st edn,6-160pp [paginated] includes profuse selection of Giles' b/w topical cartoons in sections covering: the Giles Family,Children, Holidays,Travel,Social,Health,Sport,Punishment/ Prisons,Military and Political themes; plus [unpaginated] title page with David Dimbleby colour photographic portrait to it's verso,his introduction with his facsimile signature with an untitled b/w cartoon to its verso,b/w vignetted cartoon figures illustrated contents list/table,the cartoons in this collection span from 22nd March,1950 to 9th october,1988. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age and nature,i.e. an ephemeral paper ittem,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minor exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading.Despite them,it still really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. On the eve of the new millennium,Express Newspapers and Pedigree Books publish yet another collection of timeless Giles cartoons, with a number of social and political topics covered in Giles' own unique way. Carl 'GILES' - known just by his surname worldwide,had been the regular cartoonist for the 'Daily Express' (a UK tabloid newspaper) in London,from about the middle of WW2.Since 1946 (the first annual comprising several years works up to issue No.6,this being the first to feature a single year),collections of his much detailed and imaginative cartoons,in book form,have appeared both annually and regularly,with compilations even appearing after his death.The cartoons are based on a 'family unit' - from babies to Grandma and the many relatives in between.The humorous punchlines to the cartoons were usually topical and reflected British humour,but it's the plethora of visual jokes and puns within the cartoon,thereby ensuring an enduring appeal to collectors of his works. Within each annual there's an extra attraction of the celebrity introductions to each annual.A collection of witty and humorous,detailed and imaginative cartoons by one of Britain's best-known and loved cartoonists. Other earlier and later GILES annuals/issues are available,please enquire. GILES died 07/08/1995. The British Cartoon Archive is a department of the University of Kent,at Canterbury in Kent, England,holding the national collection of political and social-comment cartoons from British newspapers and magazines.It holds the majority of GILES's work. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,slim,landscape 8vo wraps,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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