Kington miles editor (5 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. London: The Folio Society, 1999. Near Fine. Slipcase. Second printing. Tight with solid hinges, sharp tips and gold cloth. Faint soiling to spine. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The slipcase is near fine with faint wear. 272 pages. 5½ x 9. Punch was a satirical and humorous magazine produced in London from 1841 to 2002 (with a break from 1992-1996). It was immensely popular for a century until it started a fatal decline in the 1950s. The editors poked fun at everyone from politicians to actors, and social mores to sport. It was particularly famous for its humorous cartoons, which accompanied many articles. Miles Kington has gone to a great deal of trouble to pick out what he believes are the 67 best skits, accompanied by 57 black and white cartoons. Many articles in Punch are very specific to the time in which they were published, and a knowledge of current affairs of a century or more ago was necessary to understand them. The selection mainly avoids this trap, and is very readable, usually with a gentle smile upon the lips mixed with the occasional guffaw, by anyone in the 21st. century.…

im Schuber, guter Zustand. Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No jacket. The Folio Society, 1998. Hardback, slip-case, 8vo, 272pp, illust. A good copy. /0.7uk.

1999. (hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 272pp. 8vo. Boxed as issued. Gold slip case; light rubbing to lower edge. Bound by them in metallic-gold fabricoid printed with a design by Helen Smithson incorporating Punch cartoons. Entirely unblemished; volume seemingly unopened.