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Sun Books, Melbourne, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Various. Introduction by Vane Lindesay. The text is illustrated by numerous cartoons, by various cartoonists. Illustrated paperback binding, with red, green and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. If you grew up in Australia in the early part to mid part of the 20th century a sweet / lollie by the name of "Minties" was part of your life; especially, their catch cry of "It's Moments Like These You Need – Minties". This book is a collection of cartoons depicting such moments. Cartoonists include Les Such, Ted Scorfield, Syd Nicholls and the ever popular anonymous. A little rubbing of the book edges and panels with sunning to the top book edges. Very light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: Quarto -- up to 12 " Tall. 96 pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and…
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Sun Books, Melbourne, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Cartoons. Introduction by Vane Lindesay. The text is illustrated with cartoons by various artists from across time illustrating the various situations one might need a 'Mintie'. Illustrated paperback binding with green, red and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. A collection of cartoons by Australian artists demonstrating the various situations where a lolly might come in handy. Mintie sweets were a mild mint flavoured sweet that was pervasive in Australia up to the 1970s whose catch-cry was "It's Moments like These ..." A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. The front panel has started to curl and is very light age toning of the pages. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 96 pages, . Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Cartoons. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Social History; Illustration; Australia; Humour. ISBN: 0725103396. ISBN/EAN: 9780725103392. Inventory No: 0125377. . 9780725103392
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- Place of Publication Melbourne
- Date Published 1979
- Keywords BZDB2 Humour, Australia, caricatures and cartoon, Minties - Lolly – sweet – catch-cry History; Social History; Illustration; Australia; Humour. Its Moments Like These Cartoons Behind a Nations CatchCry
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It's Moments Like These: Cartoons Behind a Nation's Catch-cry.
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Melbourne: Sun Books, 1979. Paperback quarto, very good condition, black & white cartoons, top corner front cover creased, pages lightly toned, covers lifting outwards slightly, minor edgewear. 96 pp. This very entertaining book, introduced by Vane Lindesay, brings together for the first time some of the best of the many Minties cartoons that have featured in magazines and newspapers over the years. The famous catch-phase (It's Moments Like These) became an accepted part of the Australian idiom. The cartoons stand alone as the gauge of a whole epoch of graphic art.
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