Description: Giles Annual Series - 31st Date Cartoons Start 29/06/1976 Date Cartoons End 20/07/1977Price clipped Condition - Minimal cover wear, with minor light creases to the rear. Internally the pages are clean and tight. Vg Introduced by - Jean Rook One reason I joined the Daily Express was to meet Giles. If I got to shake the hand which actually draws those marvellous cartoons, I wasn’t going to wash my hand for a week. The morning I joined the paper, Giles's obnoxious nephew, Giles jr., was on the front page, bawling 'Down with Women's Lib - Sack Jean Rook before she Starts' ! *?!# Since then, Giles has given me hell. I have six much-envied original Giles cartoons - all appallingly rude about me. Giles is a living legend. And the loyalest of friends. He also has a very sketchy idea of time and place. Five times in five years I've booked a table at the Savoy to take him out to lunch, and five times he's got the wrong date, forgotten, and rung up a week later to ask why I never take him out to lunch. - Last Christmas Eve he rang me at home to ask why I hadn't called at his home to pick up the cartoon of Good King Wenceslas - kidnapped by Yonder Peasant - he's drawn me for Christmas. When I told him he'd forgotten to ask me, and we live 80 miles apart, he said it was a pity I couldn't run round and cheer him up, because there was tinsel in his cornflakes, and one of his relatives' dogs had just leaked on the dining room carpet. This Giles Annual, like all his work, is a classic. And, like all his work, will last. My favourite cartoon is one he drew for my son, Gresby, now six, when he was a year old. It’s of a morose-looking, nappied baby, waving a placard - 'Go Home Mum' - and addressed, 'To Gresby - with Deepest Sympathy from Giles'. I am sure it will hang on the walls of my son's sons' homes, and of their sons. Like Giles, it is a treasure. One of a number of similar Items I am selling. Postage combined when taking more than one item where possible. If Purchasing Multiple items please await an invoice BEFORE paying. Heavy items may not be able to be sent to PO Boxes overseas. Contact me for more details ***Overseas Bidders*** No cheques please unless drawn on a UK bank. Overseas transactions to be paid with Paypal, NO Foreign Currency, thanks ***All Bidders*** Please note that items are sent to the address as stated on your invoice unless I am imformed otherwise in A SEPARATE EMAIL VIA EBAY. I reserve the right to charge an additional fee for higher value items to cover the cost of a 'signed for' service. Postage is combined when more than one item is purchased where possible. MY GRADINGS New: A new book, never used. Fine (F): Should have no flaws, a perfect copy of a used book. Mint: Another term for Fine. As New (AN): Although a used book, it should appear unread with no flaws, just as when it was sold new. Near Fine (NF): May show a small flaw, such as shelf wear, but nearly perfect and unread. Very Good (VG): The broadest category for used books, this describes any average used book. May have small flaws, and has probably been read, but should appear overall clean and attractive. Good (G): Will probably have significant wear or damage, although is still intact. Suitable for reading, but not necessarily a good gift copy. The old saying in bookselling is "good ain't good." Fair: Another term for Poor or Reading Copy: Heavily worn or damaged, a poor book will be readable but not attractive. May have the odd page missing, but this will be noted on the relative listing. Binding Copy: This will be the complete pages of the book, but the binding has been broken or damaged to the point it will need professional rebinding Powered by eBay Turbo Lister Track Page Views With Auctiva's FREE Counter
Price: 11.99 GBP
Location: Norwich
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Format: Paperback
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Subject: Humour
Fiction Type: Collected Stories & Poems
Sub-Subject: Cartoons
Origin: UK
Printing Year: 1950-Now
Author: Giles
Fiction Subject: Humour
Non-Fiction Subject: Humour
Date of Publication: 1950-Now
Place of Publication: London
Weight: 333g
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
