John Tickner TICKNER'S PUB First Edition
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John Tickner TICKNER'S PUB First Edition
First edition, first print hardback of TICKNER'S PUB. Written and illustrated by John Tickner and published by Putnam and Company Limited, London in 1965.The book is in very good condition (Clean blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine) with minor wear to the illustrated dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light tanning inside the jacket and a fingernail closed tear to the bottom corner of the spine). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
John Tickner (1913-1997) was a well-known sporting cartoonist who developed a keen following of readers over many years. John Tickner started as a journalist before the war, joining the army in 1939. During the war, he drew cartoons of his comrades training, off duty and later at war, when he was commissioned and seconded to the King's African Rifles and fought with them in Burma. His memoirs Leopards in the Cellar recounted his ties with South Africa - in World War II he served with the South African Rifles in Burma.
In 1950 and home again, he began writing and illustrating a highly successful series of humerous books on horses, dogs and sporting and rural life; the first being Tickner's Light Horse - followed by Ticker's Dog Licence, Tickner's Showpiece and many others. In the 1970's he began his weekly cartoons for Horse and Hound which became something of an institution among its readers."
"It was inevitable the the author-artist who perpetrated Tickner's Light Horse, Tickner's Rough Shooting, Tickner's Horse Encyclopaedia and other rollicking sporting classics would eventually pounce with pen and patter on the very hub (or nub) around which all sport merrily disports - The Pub.
Here, then, is Tickner's Pub, fearsomely informative, historically hysterical, a misguided guide to Britain's pubs, after years of research in depth and swaths of the empty kegs.
Landlords, customers and staff all come in for it. The Village Pub, the Sporting Pub, the City Pub (The Director's Head!), the Pub 'with a theme' are all chronicled, charted and bottled for posterity. Tickner writes - and draws - with particular pungency about 'pets in Pubs', the four-legged kind mostly, the 'Jolly Miserable' type landlord, and Abroad drinking. No serious Pub person, who can afford the price of a round, can afford to be without a copy of Tickner's Pub.
85 pages. Illustrated with line drawing throughout within the text.
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