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SEARLE**, RONALD & DOBBS, KILDARE: : The Great Fur Opera: Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company 1670 - 1970. [Illustrated by Ronald Searle.**]

CANADA.TORONTO,ONTARIO.McCLELLAND & STEWART INC.,1970.

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CANADA,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn. [Printed and bound in Canada.Text by Canadian author and critic Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs.] FINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.White background which appears to have either slight but light discolouration as part of the design,or light foxing/grubbing; but generally,crisp and clean,with matt,colour (front) and b/w (rear) pictorial artwork by Ronald Searle,illustrated dw/dj panels,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip of dw/dj lightly darkened/discoloured with a tiny closed tear/nick to head; some miniscule loss to top, front corner's top edge,a couple of tiny snicks to rear top edge too.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain terracotta cloth boards - front board with a central,impressed design; bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.Canada,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj, illustrated 1st edn,10-124pp [paginated] includes 11 chapters - each with a full-page b/w Searle illustrated chapter head-piece,22 full-page b/w illustrations and 18 part-page b/w illustrations,a double-page full-page b/w illustrated last pages; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,double-paged full-page colour illustrated title pages,a contents list/table with an epigram to it's reverse,author's letter text,and 11 unpaginated b/w illustrated chapter headpieces. From fur factories to chain stores - a witty and irreverent glance at the three-hundred-year history of the Hudson's Bay Company,North America's oldest continuing commercial enterprise. Kildare Dobbs is one of Canada's best known authors and critics.He has written two books (then 1970),'Reading the Time' and 'Running to Paradise',receiving the Governor General's Award for Creative Non- Fiction for the latter in 1963.He is well known for his newspaper and magazine articles,and his appearances on television and radio. Ronald William Fordham Searle (b. March 3,1920 - d. Dec 30,2011.) Works as Ronald Searle.He was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist,sculptor,medal designer and illustrator.He is best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the 'Molesworth' series. Born in Cambridge.Studied at Cambridge School of Art (1936-39).Served in the Army during WW2 and was interned in Japanese PoW camps in Siam and Malaysia for three and a half years.On his release,he settled in London and began working as a humorous illustrator and carciaturist for books and magazines,including 'Punch' and 'Lilliput'.In 1959,at the invitation of the United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees, he visited camps in Austria,Italy and Greece,and published a book illustrating his impressions. The following year he settled in France,where he lived until his death.Searle has illustrated over 60 books.'Hurrah for St. Trinian's!' (1948) was among the first of many giving a mock-horrific view of private schools and their denizens; in these and many of his other books, the predominant mood of effervescent humour is offset by sinister or macabre overtones. He early developed a fanciful and strikingly individual graphic manner,subjecting the human form to grotesque distortions (bristling brows, hunched shoulders,matchstick legs and stiletto feet) and by the mid 1950s had become virtually a household name in Britain.He succeeds both at character-invention (favouring a number of well-defined types) and at caricature.He is also a painter in watercolour and gouache,etcher and lithographer and has worked on several films including Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

CANADA,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn.
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