{"product_id":"slightly-foxed-but-still-desirable-folio-society-2239","title":"Slightly Foxed, but Still Desirable","description":"\u003cp\u003eSlightly 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Folio Vault","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":55216618176851,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":55421241590099,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thefoliovault.com\/products\/slightly-foxed-but-still-desirable-folio-society-2239","provider":"Folio Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}