THE 49th OFFICIAL GILES ANNUAL.

UK,slim landscape 8vo wraps,1st edn.FINE+.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip (£4.99).Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,sharp-cornered, colour cartoon pictorially illustrated stiff card covers,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Inevitable traces of minimal light scoring/ indentations - barely discernible.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged/toned,but clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Appears unread,as no reading creases to spine/ backstrip,nor any to the front gutter edge of same.UK,slim landscape 12mo wraps, 1st edn,112pp [unpaginated],intro by Lesley Joseph (British actress) with her colour,portrait photograph and her facsimile signature,mixture of both colour and a majority of b/w cartoons by GILES.The colour cartoons are taken from 3 previously published annuals; 1963, 1970, and 1976 respectively.Cover scene: Christmas scene with Grandma holding an opened,but empty box,which is marked British Turkey, glaring at the family dog,curled up on a mat and surrounded by bird feathers.Rear cover has the design repeated from front cover but as a smaller vignette.An anthology of previously published b/w GILES cartoons from as early as 1963 progressing through to the 1970's (the majority), and then the 1980's.
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.
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