BIRDS,BEES AND STORKS.

UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj but published price is inked out by a previous owner.Bright, crisp,matt,red background with b/w+colour caricature illustrated front cover,b/w caricatures to rear cover - design repeated to paper-covered boards beneath photographic illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering,a couple of residue sellotape 'ghost' marks to plain white front free endpaper,rear endpaper near immaculate; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Internal water-stain to head of spine/backstrip slightly spreading partially along dw/dj's top edges causing some minor wrinkling.Light rubbing/chipping to all extremities and corners but without any significant loss - boards beneath unaffected.Top edges lightly dust-soiled with some minimal, sporadic foxing,fore-edges brighter and cleaner and without foxing; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,48pp [unpaginated] includes 45 full page b/w caricatures - some with a single colour varying from pink to red - and each captioned,plus [unpaginated] half-title with author's other works/titles listing to verso,b/w line vignetted title page. Described hard but fairly and honestly - not as bad as it reads!
We all know the old question which makes the most self-assured father tremble and even the most experienced mother blush.Thousands of books have tried to solve this delicate problem in vain.The incomparable Gerard Hoffnung has found the answer and presents it in easy,simple and straightforward terms,psychologically sound and scientifically irrefutable.Every parent will profit immensely from this advice given verbally as well as pictorially and their troubled minds will be set at ease at last. Gerard Hoffnung (1925-59).Born Berlin; moved to London (1938). Studied at Hornsey and Harrow Schools of Art.Taught art at Stamford School (1944) and Harrow School (1945).Cartoonist,illustrator and painter,broadcaster,impressario and amateur musician.He contributed to 'Lilliput' from the age of 15 and to numerous magazines internationally; staff artist on the London Evening News and Flair magazine (New York). He also originated and organised the Hoffnung Festival Concerts,made broadcasts on BBC radio and television,and spoke regularly at the Oxford and Cambridge Unions.As a black and white artist,he was particularly known for his wittily inventive musical cartoons,in which orchestral performers and their instruments were affectionately depicted in a vein of comic fantasy reminiscent of Edward Lear. His output and versatility was prodigious: musical cartoons,drawings and illustrations along with radio and television appearances and his famous concerts.His art was that of a gentle man,always laughing with those he caricatured, never at them.Passionately fond of music,he loved to satirise its every aspect.The drawings in this book were made during the last two years of his life and bear his trademarks of keen observation,underlying kindness and lack of malice.Perhaps these are the reasons why his books continue to delight countless people throughout the world even now,more than twenty-five years after his death. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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