Author: LOW, DAVID.
Title: The Fearful Fifties. A History of the Decade.
Description: London: The Bodley Head, 1960. 1st edition. "History seen through the eye of a satirical cartoonist with a sense of the ridiculous plus a curiosity as to the relationship of events and the sequence of cause and effect..The 200 drawings which illustrate the book range from allegory to caricature, were made at the time of the happenings and are frankly amusing.." 20.3cms x 17cms. Pp.191, cartoon/caricature illustrations throughout, gift message to front free endpaper. Green cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed with darkening to spine and small edge tears and chipping. G+/G+.

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