Richard Ingrams Books

Oversized hard cover, with clipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. General shelf and handling wear, including light creasing to DJ edges, and tanning to spine. Boards in fine condition, pages are tightly bound and content unmarked. Colours within are vibrant and true. CN

When the first issue of Private Eye was published in 1961, not many people thought it would last more than a few months. This 1971 biography of the periodical describes how the magazine came into being with Richard Ingrams portraying the unlikely editorial collaboration of himself, William Rushton, Christopher Booker, Paul Foot, Peter Cook, Claud Cockburn and many other pseuds of Greek Street. The selections include cartoons, the Colour Section, Lunchtime O'Booze, Glenda Slag, Knacker of the Yard, Baillie Vass, The Last Days of Macmillian, Mrs. Wilson's Diary, the Profumo Affair, the Hal Woolf story, Barry McKenzie, Grocer Heath, and news that no other British newspaper would print. This is the story of how it became England's most sued magazine defying boycotts by advertisers and big distributors with enviable agility and wit.

"Despite insisting throughout his life that he was a journalist, G. K. Chesterton was famous in his day as the author of over one hundred books, including the Father Brown stories. He was a character literally larger than life, a man renowned for his wit who in his final years became even better known as a broadcaster on BBC radio. The Sins of G. K. Chesterton explores an often-overlooked aspect of his life and work -- the personal relationships with his younger brother Cecil, Cecil's wife Ada (also known as 'Keith') and, in particular, the friend and mentor of both brothers, Hilaire Belloc. This brilliant biographical study challenges the conventional image of Chesterton. With the help of previously unpublished material, Richard Ingrams reveals a more vulnerable figure, manipulated by his brother and Belloc, the domineering Anglo-Frenchman. It was the influence of both men that involved Chesterton in the greatest controversy of his life -- the Marconi scandal. While Ingrams's vivid account of the scandal and its aftermath is a stark reminder that anti-Semitism is nothing new in British political life, this work is also an absorbing tribute to a great English writer in need of rediscovery" --

This superb collection of cartoons by Pont (real Graham Laidler), one of the most eminent pre-war Punch artists contains many of his most famous cartoons and shows that his genius for captivating the idiosyncrasies and lunacies of the British is still accurate, alive and amusing today. New readers will undoubtedly indulge in a strongly British characteristic -- laughing at themselves.

The title 'Unwrecked England' is taken from Candida Lycett Green's regular column of the last 17 years in 'The Oldie' magazine. The book celebrates 100 of Candida's favourite lesser-known places from every county in England.

Ranked among the top artist-reporters of the last one hundred years, Paul Hogarth RA is one of Britain's most distinguished illustrators and graphic artists. Allied to his artistic talent is an adventurous spirit and a passion for travel. From working trips to China and the USSR in the 1950s through time spent in the USA and, more recently, in Croatia, his drawings are a unique record of sixty years of world history. This new edition adds 16 pages of tales and drawings to this enthralling and richly illustrated autobiography.