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GARRATT**, CHRIS & KIDD**, MICK: : THE RAINY DAY BIFF

LONDON.PAVEMENT PRESS,October 1983.

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UK,slim,small 8vo s/back Original,stated 1st edn.Softback/paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but softback/paperback originals are published prior to any other format.] VG. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from card cover.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around green background with colour pictorial artwork cartoon illustrated front card cover with black-outlined white+yellow capitalised title and white lettered authors' names,a sunned/faded spine with white lettering,rear cover with white lettered synopsis and critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Rear,top corner with an accidental,but small,uniformly corner tip creases affecting concomitant internal corners of last 36 unpaginated pages - no other pages affected.Bookseller's gold+ black lettered adhesive label to rear cover.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid - majority of pages without intentional dog-ear reading creases.UK,slim,small 8vo s/back Original, stated 1st edn,88pp [unpaginated] includes title page,b/w cartoons by Garratt+ Kidd to every page with exception of both the first two and the last two pages,of which,include a potted biography of each cartoonist with a thumbnail b/w portrait photograph with conversational comic speech bubbles and blank reverse to same. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. a softback,and even internally,the book is also in an acceptable and clean condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minor exterior faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading. Cartoonists' 2nd collection of cartoons following on from 'THE ESSENTIAL BIFF'(UK, 1982).See also my book ID rja994422 for UK,s/back Otiginal,1st edn of 'DESERT ISLAND BIFF' by the same artists. The co-authors have been involved in co-productions since schooldays in Leicestershire.In 1979 they set up BIFF Products,designing deconstructed comic strips as postcards,badges,teeshirts, posters and mugs which were sold from a market stall in Camden,London and via book and gift shops in UK,USA and Australia. BIFF cartoons have appeared in New Society, City Limits, Time Out, New Musical Express, IT, Undercurrents and Escape magazines.They were also included in the Graphic Rap exhibition and on Channel 4's ALTER IMAGE programme. 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. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** 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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,slim,small 8vo s/back Original,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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