Buy this book on-line STEADMAN**, RALPH: : A LEG in the WIND and other Canine CursesLONDON.ARROW BOOKS LIMITED,1982. ISBN 0099299402.
UK,slim landscape 32mo wraps,1st edn.[A softback original 1st edn and it's first appearance in this format.] FINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - softback original issued in wraps - price to rear cover.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, sharp-cornered,b/w+colour artwork by Ralph Steadman,illustrated card covers; with negligible shelf-wear,creasing or bumping to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Some minimal,light inevitable scoring/indents to both covers - nothing excessive though,and spine/backstrip lightly aged/darkened.Top+fore- edge bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean and solid - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread? UK,slim 32mo wraps (5" tall x 7½" wide),64pp [unpaginated] includes b/w cartoon (design from front cover) illustrated title page,dedication,
3pp author introductiion,profuse single-page b/w cartoon illustrations - some with accompanying text by Steadman - throughout the text and book. Author's spoof,potted biography as a 'Pedigree' dog with b/w photograph illustrated rear endpaper.
Ralph Steadman,born 1936,in Wallasey,near Liverpool.Educated at Abergele Grammar School, North Wales.Apprentice engineer with the De Havilland Aircraft Company. Served in the RAF (1954-56).Caricaturist, sculptor, painter, printmaker: also writer of music and songs. Contributor to Punch, Private Eye [UK satirical magazines),The Times and The Daily Telegraph (UK newspapers) [1961-69], to Rolling Stone (1970- 79),and the New Statesman (since 1979).A winner of the Francis Williams Illustrations Award (1972) with Alice in Wonderland (1967).Has travelled extensively in America,Canada,Europe and the Orient.
As a caricaturist,Steadman has been influenced by the German expressionist George Grosz and the American Saul Steinberg.He was one of the artists (another was Gerald Scarfe) who,during the 1960's broke away from the tradition of gentlemanly realism established in the 19thC by John Tenniel to explore the realms of passion, fantasy and nightmare.
Significantly,perhaps,he took up the challenge of illustrating 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass',(first illustrated by Tenniel) and proved to be the only 'Alice' illustrator since Arthur Rackham to succeed in creating convincing images that owed nothing to Tenniel's authoritative iconography.His more recent illustrations to 'Sigmund Freud' have been described as 'the mature work of an artist in sympathy with a genius and through that sympathy finding new reaches in his own capabilities' (Michael McNay: The Guardian,6th July,1982.).
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