Slightly Foxed, but Still Desirable

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Slightly Foxed, but Still Desirable
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Slightly Foxed, but Still Desirable

Ronald Searle
Edition year 2015
Binding Paper
Illustrator Ronald Searle
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 128
Dimensions 22.8 × 16.2 cm

Edition details

Slightly Foxed, but Still Desirable, Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting by Ronald Searle. Introduced and illustrated by the author. Bound in off-white paper, printed and blocked with a wrap-around design by Ronald Searle. Frontispiece and 60 integrated colour illustrations. No slipcase or dust-jacket. Red endpapers. 128pp. 22.8x16.2cm

About the book

In Slightly Foxed, but Still Desirable, Ronald Searle turns the specialised language of antiquarian bookselling into a series of mischievous visual jokes. Descriptions intended to explain a book's condition take on unexpected, often wonderfully literal meanings in his drawings. The humour depends on the distance between the reassuring phrases of a catalogue and the stranger possibilities Searle imagines behind them. Subtitled Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting, this collection celebrates bibliophiles and their vocabulary with the affectionate irreverence of a cartoonist who understands the attractions and absurdities of collecting.

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