Grandma: The Biography of Giles's Infamous Cartoon Character Hardback - 1999

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Headline Publishing for Hodder.* Binding and cover condition: Green boards, gilt title to spine. Bumps to corners and dent to both lower edges, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated cover based on the Giles 17th. Series Annual, from 1963/64, white, violet and red titles to face and violet/white titles to spine. Price clipped, showing no shelf price but rear cover indicates a price of £18.99. Some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight scrape to lower edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w line drawn cartoons & a few b/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 160 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Little did Carl Giles imagine when he started producing cartoons of a British family more than fifty years ago that the squat, black-garbed grandma, hat jammed well down, brolly at the ready, would become a national figure. A formidable character who terrorised the snivelling Vera, she was undaunted by policemen, toffs or Mrs Thatcher herself, and went about her business at home, on family outings and at the bookies and the racecourse with ruthless determination.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with some minor faults reducing it to VG, now in a clear un-attached protective dust jacket.*