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BROOKES**, PETER - [Political cartoonist of THE TIMES.]: : NATURE NOTES.**

UK.LITTLE,BROWN AND COMPANY (UK),1997.

ISBN 03166641537.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial caricature artwork by Peter Brookes,illustrated dw/dj panels with black letters,rear panel also illustrated and with black-lettered captions; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.A narrow 1" sunned/faded,vertical band only partially affecting some of coloured cartoons in vicinity,extending from front spine's gutter's fold towards fore-edges - noticeable to front only.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without any blemish; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corner tips – virtually pristine - unread apart from my own collation. Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, colour pictorial caricature artwork repeated from dw/dj,illustrated paper-covered boards with repeated coloured lettering from dw/dj,and immaculate plain dark green sets of endpapers. UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-111pp [paginated] includes 53 full-page,full-colour cartoons each with an accompanying,facing short history/news story context; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a dedication. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's 25+ year-old age,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It realy is an exceptional, exemplary example for its brightness,cleanliness and lack of detracting faults. See als my book ID rja31208 'Nature Notes III', UK,HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. Peter Brookes is an English political cartoonist who produced work for many publications,most notably The Times (UK newspaper),for which he is the leader-page cartoonist. In 1996,Political Cartoonist of the Year Peter Brookes launched a new series of cartoons in the The Times newspaper on Saturdays called 'Nature Notes' - brilliantly executed drawings of both domestic MPs and international leaders as members of a weird and wonderful world.A menagerie with a vegetable patch,the world of 'Nature Notes' is a place where the great and the good can and do become the small and the furry: Boris Yeltsin as a Muscovy (lame) duck; Ian Paisley as an Orange-Utan ('Devours all greenery'); and Baroness Thatcher as a rabid old bat ('Its venom is of European origin,and any bite can prove gravely injurious to grey-haired, bespectacled gentlemen').Anything is possible - John Prescott can even become a Great Tit. 'Nature Notes' brings together over fifty of the first 'Nature Notes' cartoons to appear in The Times.Covering the period from February,1996 to June,1997,just after Labour's landslide victory in the General Election,each cartoon takes as its theme a news story of the time - among them Tory splits,sleaze and Euro-bickering; Labour's ruthlessly inexorable path to power; BSE,Budgets and Britannia; crime and royalty and Northern Ireland. Both a revealing commentary on the dog-days of Tory Britain and a hilarious succession of merciless character studies,'Nature Notes' is essential reading for the politically informed. Brookes is particularly noted for his "Nature Notes" series of cartoons,begun in February 1996,which portray various fictitious beasts, based on the appearance (and supposed habits) of well-known politicians.He has noted that a benefit of using animal images is that he can show his subjects doing things that,for reasons of decency,could not be published if they were portrayed as human.Brookes said: "you are able to depict crap and fornication and that sort of thing".During the coalition government in 2010, he began a notable series of cartoons known as the "Westminster Academy",which depicted Nick Clegg as a public school fag to a red cheeked David Cameron,who was portrayed as a prefect dressed in an Eton suit and Union Jack waistcoat,with Boris Johnson and George Osborne also appearing in some cartoons as his cronies. During this period also,he depicted leader of the opposition Ed Miliband and shadow Chancellor Ed Balls as Wallace and Gromit. 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,Landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.