22 Literature


69819 CARTOON CENTURY: Modern Britain Through the Eyes of its Cartoonists by Timothy S. Benson


This superb survey looks at the 20th century year by year using some 600 of the finest cartoons. From events of worldwide importance such as the outbreak of war, and those of social and political significance such as election victories and the Suffragette movement to those with a more peculiarly British aspect, like football, traffic, the weather and royalty, they may show a nation united, but more often reveal where the battlelines have been drawn, especially in the political arena. Some of the cartoons reproduced here have


achieved iconic status, like David Low’s savage depictions of Hitler and Stalin or Steve Bell’s


portrayal of John Major with his underpants over his trousers, and some of them have not been seen since the day they were first published. 256pp in paperback, 8½”×10½”.


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an album by the biggest band in the world would prove so popular?” A shopaholic who went out to get a head for an electric toothbrush returned with £14K’s worth of clothes and shoes, some of which did not even fit her. Even Rembrandt was a compulsive spender and in 1656 had to sell most of his art collection and his house to meet his debts. With “top ten” sections and fascinating financial facts at the bottom of each page, this is terrifying stuff. 288pp. £9.99 NOW £3.50


70835 WHEN I WERE A SCHOOL LAD


by Andrew Davies Over 80 sepia photos from schooldays of bygone times are wittily captioned by the author for a hilariously nostalgic treat. “Mash


were a primary ingredient of every school dinner” and school meals were dished up by a terrifying army of dinner ladies: “When they weren’t away with the whaling fleet, or wrestling third bout on the bill at Winter Gardens, dinner ladies used to dish grub out”. School milk was free but tasted “somewhere between yoghurt and wallpaper paste”. Rival schools are singled out for particular scorn: “The kids at Scruffside Primary had trouble written all over them .... not that they could have spelt anything with seven letters”, while the pupils at “Our Lady Immaculate Fascist School for Girls” are pictured in the P.E. lesson doing something that looks remarkably like a goose-step. 144pp, archive photos. £9.99 NOW £5


68391 MOONWALK/THRILLER


by Ed Roberts and Kate Parker Flick open with your thumb and watch a silhouette of Michael Jackson perform each pose from two of his most famous dances and pop soundtracks. Here are his unmistakable pirouettes, pointy finger monster moves from Thriller and backward steps from his Moonwalk. Paperback.


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Krapital edited by Dury, Jones and Thorp Many of our more puerile and scatologically-minded customers will be familiar with the magnum opus of Roger Mellie (the Man off the Telly), a perennial favourite from the pages of Viz magazine. Here is a collection of euphemisms or alternative nomenclature for sexual, lavatorial and not-the-kind-of-subjects/objects/ pastimes-you-would-ever-discuss-with-your-elderly- relatives-or-local-man-of-the-cloth-type “things”. Softback, 624 filth-packed pages. Cartoons. £13.99 NOW £4.50


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70289 ARE WE THERE YET? Greetings from the Simpsons by Matt Groening


32 very large sized colour postcards featuring the silliness of this adorable American family and their neighbours like Mr Burns, the tyrannical owner of Springfield’s nuclear power plant and the bartender at Moe’s Tavern, Krusty the Clown, second banana Milhouse, Itchy and Scratchy, bundle of joy Maggie and of course Homer and Marge. For sending to your friends ‘Wish you were here’ and ‘thinking of you’ messages. Softback. $12.95 NOW £2


64278 FACES OF HUMPH: Caricatures and Memories


by Humphrey Lyttelton


From 1967 until 2008, Humphrey Lyttelton presented BBC’s The Best of Jazz and he was chairman of the anarchic, award-winning radio programme I’m Sorry, I Haven’t a Clue. He wrote nine books, composed over 200 tunes and, of course, fronted his popular jazz band. Drawing and doodling from an early age, Humph trained as a cartoonist. In this unique collection we can enjoy some of those cartoons - witty, clever and unassuming - along with the compelling stories that surround his subjects. 164 pages packed with line drawings.


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LITERATURE


Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.


- Samuel Johnson


70547 LE MORTE D’ARTHUR: Collector’s Library Edition


by Sir Thomas Malory with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley


What a super book. This


magnificent and evocative edition is based on that of 1893, which was decorated and illustrated by the then notorious young artist, Aubrey


Beardsley. He was a book illustrator, caricaturist, poster designer and novelist who had travelled abroad and become familiar with the posters of Toulouse-Lautrec. He illustrated The Rape of the Lock, the Lysistrata of Aristophanes and Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, all of them controversial subjects which caused a scandal. As can be seen from this volume, his special fancy was for hermaphrodites and strange, aggressively sexy faun- cum-human creatures, all set against peacock feathers and the wild entangled plants of the Art Nouveau period. Combined with Malory’s majestic rendition of the Arthurian legends, which was one of England’s first printed books, these drawings create an atmosphere of enchantment. The tales share common characters and a common interest in the themes of love, chivalry and religious fervour, as they tell of the knights of the Round Table, their quests, their betrayals and, finally, the death of King Arthur and the disbandment of the Fellowship. All the familiar stories are here: the wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone, how Merlin counselled King Arthur, how Sir Lancelot was espied in the Queen’s chamber and what happened to both of them, how Mordred was slain and Arthur was hurt to the death. But there are also thrilling tales of people in and around Arthur’s court with whom readers who have read expurgated versions of this volume may not be so familiar. For instance Balin and Balan, and the knight Beaumains who ‘rode after to rescue his dwarf’ and suddenly and inexplicably became Sir Gareth! There are many other delightful and puzzling occurrences, not least how Sir Tristram and King Mark ‘hurted each other for the love of a knight’s wife’, how Sir Tristram lay with the lady and how her husband fought with Sir Tristram - end of story! 23 x 30cm x 4.1cm, a vast 561 pages with gold-encrusted edges and silk bookmark, illustrated in b/ w with glossary and the re-printed preface of William Caxton for the first edition of 1485. £29.99 NOW £25


70558 SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF


EXPERIENCE by William Blake


Blake (1757-1827) was born and raised in London where he was apprenticed to the engineer James Basire and studied at the RA. He was recognised as a major writer, painter and printmaker of the Romantic era, conveying his distinctive theology through several


illuminated manuscripts including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790). This edition contains some of Blake’s best loved poems. They form a stirring, poignant reflection on a range of human experience from childhood to adulthood. This edition reproduces the complete collection in the original illuminated manuscript form. ‘Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright, in the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?’ Colour illus, 64pp. ONLY £7


68852 MARY BARTON by Elizabeth Gaskell


Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel (1848) depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-19th century. But these clashes are dramatised through personal struggles. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his socialist duty, risking his life and liberty in the


process. His daughter Mary is caught between two lovers, from opposing classes - worker and manufacturer. And at the heart of the narrative lies a murder which implicates them all. Paperback, 414pp. New from Wordsworth. ONLY £2


70737 NEW ANNOTATED


DRACULA: Bram Stoker edited by Leslie Klinger Every serious reader of the horror genre will be re-reading Dracula with new eyes in this fascinating compendium. Here are 1500 notes that provide information of virtually every aspect of the novel, hundreds of illustrations from Victorian maps to movie posters


and peculiar historical oddities such as the science of blood transfusion. The novel treated as an historical document, with new revelations about Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing, Lucy Westenra and of course the Count himself. Travelling through 200 years of popular culture and myth as well as graveyards and the wilds of Transylvania, Leslie Klinger separates facts from fiction employing superb literary detective skills. He mines the 1897 classic novel and Leonard Wolf’s The Annotated Dracula 1975 for nuggets that will surprise even the most die-hard Dracula fans. With a classic introduction by Neal Gaiman, the notes in the margins will have you turning back to the book again and again to ask Why? Repeatedly and spotting small errors in times of meeting, whether it is a fictional notation, the origins of phrases like ‘To buy something unexamined’ first recorded in 1530 in Scotland and ‘Small talk’, which comes from the French for preliminary conversation. 613 endlessly


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70530 BEST OF LEWIS CARROLL


illustrated by John Tenniel and Henry Holiday


Charles Lutwidge Dodgson dreamed up the most famous and beloved characters in all of children’s literature: the white Rabbit, the March Hare, the Red Queen, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, and, of course, Alice. Here in one


volume are his most acclaimed works: The Hunting of the Snark, Tangled Tales, Phantasmagoria, Nonsense From Letters, and of course, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872). Included also are facsimiles of the memorable original illustrations for the Alice books by the eminent artist Sir John Tenniel. This handsome large format value edition has been printed and bound in the USA and imported by Bibliophile so that young and old will once again fall under his spell. A book not to be missed, 440pp. ONLY £8.50


70580 THE HEPTAMERON: Selected Tales by Marguerite, Queen of Navarre


edited by Stanley Appelbaum Brimming with murder, adultery, remorse and revenge, these gripping tales were reputedly originated at the Royal Court of France and are attributed to Marguerite of Navarre, the learned sister of Francis I. Like the exuberant storytellers of Boccaccio’s Decameron and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the ten


men and women who narrate the tales of The Heptameron offer captivating glimpses of a vanished world. They have taken refuge in a Pyrenean abbey, where they pass their time in a storytelling battle of the sexes. Ranging from the highly romantic to the downright bawdy and from the deeply spiritual to profane, they form a vivid portrait of attitudes in changing times from medieval to modern in 16th century France. Facsimile reprint of the 1886 original translated by Arthur Machen. 198pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


70583 THE VAGABOND by Collette, translated by Stanley Appelbaum


From the author of ‘Gigi’ comes the tale of 33 year old Renée Néré, recently divorced and seeking a new life as a vaudeville performer. Maxime, a wealthy playboy, tempts her from the path of independence with the comforts of an offer of love and marriage. From the physical and psychological distance of a provincial tour, Renée reflects upon


the conflicting needs of security and freedom. Regarded as one of the first and best feminist novels ever written, it is a vivid portrait of life in the Parisian music halls of the early 20th century. Collette’s 1910 novel mirrors her own adventures as an itinerant dancer. Original translation, 184pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


70588 HANGING ON: Diaries 1960-1963


by Frances Partridge With sharp intelligence and tenderness, Frances Partridge describes her friends in the Bloomsbury Group. Here are her private thoughts on the complex relations between herself, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey and her beloved husband Ralph. Quietly brilliant, her diaries would have been riveting reading even if the


stories it contains had not been so absorbing and dramatic. At the heart it is a story of struggle and trying to ‘hang on’ especially in the years from 1960 when her husband Ralph Partridge had a heart attack. These are letters from the heart. 186pp in paperback with photos. £9.99 NOW £4.50


70592 A PACIFIST’S WAR:


Diaries 1939-1945 by Frances Partridge Frances Partridge lived with her husband Ralph at Ham Spray, the house where her husband, Lytton Strachey and Carrington led their entangled Bloomsbury lives. From its comfortable environs she and her husband followed the course of the Second World War with passionate interest together with the Stracheys,


Bells, Desmond McCarthys and Garnetts. Mrs. Partridge published this diary, kept from 1939 to 1945 partly to record the pacifist arguments of the last war and partly to convey my feeling of hatred for the War and violence bred by war. Paperback. 224pp. £8.99 NOW £3


70923 KISS OF THE SPIDER


WOMAN by Manuel Puig Valentin, a young socialist revolutionary, and Molina, a movie- obsessed middle-aged homosexual are locked up together in an Argentinean jail cell. Molina narrates with enthusiasm and detail scenes from his favourite films to his young cellmate whose cheeky interjections irritate the elder man. Details of their daily, dreary routine in prison slips through into the


dialogue and contrasts with the colour and imagination of the stories. An international classic, this masterpiece comprises largely of sharp dialogue delivered between the two men. The fanciful Molina slowly works his way into Valentin’s good graces after nursing him back to health after he is repeatedly tortured. As their relationship becomes sexual, the story lunges towards its heart-breaking yet inevitable conclusion. The novel inspired a long running Broadway musical and a 1985 film starring William Hurt and Raul Julia. 281pp. ONLY £5


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dozens of our flying hero’s classic adventures. 70786 BIGGLES’


DANGEROUS MISSIONS by Captain W. E. Johns Biggles in Australia, Biggles - Secret Agent, Biggles and the Secret Mission and Biggles - Flying Detective are the four adventures in this second omnibus of Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth, know to millions of


devoted fans as Biggles. Here he is saving an important scientist from the clutches of the Nazis just before WW2 begins; foiling a gang of pirates sinking British shipping in the Indian Ocean; defeating a conspiracy of dangerous agitators in Australia’s Outback and tackling a clever gang of ruthless jewel thieves. Three volumes available. Bumper softback 782pp with bookmark. £15.99 NOW £6


70787 BIGGLES’ SECRET ASSIGNMENTS


by Captain W. E. Johns Includes Biggles’ Second Case, Biggles Breaks the Silence, Biggles Gets His Men and Biggles Follows On. Biggles becomes involved in four undercover operations in this third bumper omnibus edition of his classic


adventure stories that take him from the icy wastes of Antarctica to war-torn Korea. Here he is hunting a Second World War German submarine loaded with stolen gold, battling with desperate villains over an ice- bound treasure ship, rescuing kidnapped scientists from a remote region of China, tackling his arch enemy Erich Von Stalhein and teaming up with Gimlet King’s Special Forces Unit undercover in China. Captain W. E. Johns wrote scores of thrilling aviation yarns which first appeared in the 1930s right up to his death in 1968. A wartime RAF pilot, his expert knowledge and combat experience added a rare dimension of authenticity to these daring adventures. Huge bumper softback volume, 654pp with bottle green satin bookmark.


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70785 BIGGLES’ BIG ADVENTURE


by Captain W. E. Johns Biggles in the Baltic, Biggles Sees It Through, Biggles Flies North and Biggles in the Jungle are the four action-packed adventure stories which show Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth at his fighting best. Here he is tackling a gang of slavers in the jungles of


South America, foiling the plans of his Nazi enemy Von Stalhein in the icy wastes of the Arctic, battling crooks in Canada to help an old friend and setting up an air base at the very edge of the Nazi empire at the outbreak of war. Here are Biggles and his famous crew - Flight-Lieutenant the Hon. Algernon ‘Algy’ Lacy and Flying-Officer ‘Ginger’ Hebblethwaite. Bumper softback 781pp with satin bookmark. £15.99 NOW £6


71166 BIGGLES: Set of Three by Captain W. E. Johns


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70930 PUSHCART’S COMPLETE ROTTEN REVIEWS AND REJECTIONS edited by Bill Henderson and André Bernard


A few years ago, Pushcart Press issued a series of three books - Rotten Reviews, Rotten Reviews II and Rotten Rejections. A history of insult, and a solace to writers, here is the collected revised and


expanded three highly entertaining volumes gathered together for the first time. It collects several new nasty reviews and ridiculous rejections of great authors and classic books. For example, Jane Austen was reviewed as a ‘Husband-hunting butterfly.’ Alice in Wonderland was reviewed as a ‘stiff overwrought story’ and of John Le Carré, ‘he hasn’t got any future.’ The cruel remarks of editors and publishers stack up and make hilarious reading - ‘Far too gloomy for us’, ‘Completely unpleasant’ - The New Yorker on The Lord of the Flies. ‘D. H. Lawrence has a diseased mind’, ‘Mr Kipling doesn’t know how to use the English language’. Witty cartoons, 269pp in paperback. $15 NOW £5


70436 WHO KILLED IAGO? by James Walton


So who does kill Iago in Othello? What is Mr Darcy’s Christian name? How many times had the Wife of Bath been married in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales? Sometimes there are featured authors, literary connections, food and drink, appearances of famous characters, featured author J. K. Rowling, or Thomas Hardy, literary


globetrotting, literary firsts and one offs and much more. From Charlotte Brontë to Chinua Achebe and hidden double entendres to famous opening lines, based on the long-running BBC Radio literary quiz show, the book runs the gamut and will make you wonder how much you really know about literature. NB. Contents almost same as ‘Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts’. 295pp in paperback. $13.95 NOW £3


100587 BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers. 800 pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


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