Nicolas Bentley (Prion Cartoon Classics) by Bentley, Nicolas Bryant, Mark - 2003-01-01

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Prion.* Binding and cover condition: Laminated boards, coloured covers with slight marks to corners and faded spine but clean and tight. GD+* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: B/w line drawings throughout.* Pages: unpaginated text. i pp. biographical notes at rear.* Description: Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978) was a man of many parts - publisher, circus clown, film extra, novelist, mimic, journalist, fireman, poet ad man, and commercial artist. The son of E. C. Bentley, inventor of the ?clerihew? and godson of G.K. Chesterton, he became one of the best-loved humorous cartoonists and caricaturists. Among the 70-odd books which still carry the immortal by-line "Nicholas Bentley Drew the Pictures" are works by George Mikes, Hilaire Belloc, JB Morton, Damon Runyon, Lawrence Durrell, Kingsley Amis and most famously TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Here, assembled for the first time in one volume, are nearly 200 of his finest joke drawings.* A NEAR VG copy with minor wear reduced to GD+ by faults to boards. No dust jacket.* ( Prion cartoon classics)