Stop by Fougasse (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Gift message to front pastedown. No DJ.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, octavo, a very good unused diary for 1939 with accompanying cartoon illustrations. The book very good, tightly bound, the dust jacket with edge loss and now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Unused diary for 1939, featuring humourous notes for each day and b/w illustrations. Toning to spine. Rubbing to edges. Contents clean and sound. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Octavo hardback. 138 pp, illustrated Spine slightly faded not affecting titles otherwise Good condition. Original owner's gift inscriptions No dust jacket. Fougasse (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Methuen 1938 first edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1938 first edition on green cloth.

1st edition orig. dec. cloth Nice Copy small octavo (96)pp., illusts., With 2-4 days per page, with 1 or 2 cartoons on each. Boards dulled at spine (bright titles) o/w a nice copy. Uncommon.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. An uncommon selection of collected works from British 'Punch' cartoonist, Fougasse. A set of five volumes of collected illustrations.Majority of the works are first editions, with the exception of 'You Have Been Warned' (fifth edition) and 'The Luck of the Draw' (second edition).Three volumes complete with their scarce original dust wrapper, 'The Luck of the Draw' and 'Family Group' being price-clipped.Cyril Kenneth Bird (known better under the pen name Fougasse) was one of the best known cartoonists of the time, notable for his work in Punch magazine as well as World War II warning propaganda posters and posters for the London Underground.Each of these books offers a special selection of his illustrations, collected here for humorous reading.Includes the following:'You Have Been Warned''The Luck of the Draw' 'Drawing the Line Somewhere''Stop or Go' 'Family Group' In the original cloth binding. 'Luck of the Draw', 'Family Group' and 'You Have Been Warned' complete with the original dust wrapper, the first two being price-clipped. Externally, smart, with fading to the spines of 'Stop' and 'Drawing the Line' as well as to the spine head and tail of 'Luck of the Draw' and 'You Have Been Warned'. With slight cocking to the spines and mild shelf wear. Dust wrappers are edge worn and sunned to the spines, most notably to 'Family Group'. With chips to the spine head of 'Luck' and 'Warned'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with offsetting to the endpapers of 'Stop' and 'Luck'. Minor tide mark to the front free endpaper of 'Family'. Very Good. Fougasse [Cyril Kenneth Bird] (illustrator). book.…

First edition, with an original drawing by Fougasse on half title. Signed on the half-title "Kenneth Bird. Fougasse" under an original pen and ink and pencil drawing of a lady on a telephone, her hair heightened in yellow. The drawing is reminiscent of the image on the lower board of the binding. 8vo., original green cloth lettered on spine and boards, the front board with a decoration of a man on the phone, the lower board with a lady on the phone. A very good copy (without dust wrapper). Illustrated throughout with cartoons by Fougasse, each day of the diary with a humorous comment. As cartoonist, art editor and editor, Kenneth Bird transformed the style of Punch. His own contributions pared down human activity with such economy as to suggest the essence of modern life. This approach also had a significant influence on advertising, as in the emphasis on the elegant streamlining of Austin Reed's 'New Tailoring'. Bird's influential, economical draughtsmanship won him the role as the only artist to be Editor of Punch (1949-53). Much more sociable than his predecessor, E V Knox, he encouraged contributors to visit the office and discuss their work. He also modernised the layout, and introduced two double-pages a week of descriptive reporting from around Britain. …