BINDER, Pearl; ORDISH, George. Ladies Only
BINDER, Pearl; ORDISH, George. Ladies Only. London: Dennis Dobson. 1972. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s slate grey cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the vivid dust jacket by Binder. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the gilt a trifle rubbed, the spine tips a just a trifle pushed. The binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine but for a few very faint spots to the textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped (£2.10 net) and complete, very gently bumped and rubbed along the spine tips and corners, but a striking volume.
One of two works produced in collaboration with the entomologist, George Ordish—the first being a humorous yet enlightening book on pigeons (Pigeons and People, 1967). And this a bona fide novel about ginseng, the Korean aphrodisiac. Yet much like Binder’s other work, sex and gender take arms by way of Ladies Only, a secret organisation whose vision and reality is to eliminate men; the blood of the novel is a deeply scathing satirical swipe at international politics, War weapons, tycoonery, the cult of the occult, human behaviour, and of course, misogyny. Not reprinted, and really rather uncommon.
BINDER, Pearl; ORDISH, George. Ladies Only. London: Dennis Dobson. 1972. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s slate grey cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the vivid dust jacket by Binder. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the gilt a trifle rubbed, the spine tips a just a trifle pushed. The binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine but for a few very faint spots to the textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped (£2.10 net) and complete, very gently bumped and rubbed along the spine tips and corners, but a striking volume.
One of two works produced in collaboration with the entomologist, George Ordish—the first being a humorous yet enlightening book on pigeons (Pigeons and People, 1967). And this a bona fide novel about ginseng, the Korean aphrodisiac. Yet much like Binder’s other work, sex and gender take arms by way of Ladies Only, a secret organisation whose vision and reality is to eliminate men; the blood of the novel is a deeply scathing satirical swipe at international politics, War weapons, tycoonery, the cult of the occult, human behaviour, and of course, misogyny. Not reprinted, and really rather uncommon.
BINDER, Pearl; ORDISH, George. Ladies Only. London: Dennis Dobson. 1972. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s slate grey cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the vivid dust jacket by Binder. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the gilt a trifle rubbed, the spine tips a just a trifle pushed. The binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine but for a few very faint spots to the textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped (£2.10 net) and complete, very gently bumped and rubbed along the spine tips and corners, but a striking volume.
One of two works produced in collaboration with the entomologist, George Ordish—the first being a humorous yet enlightening book on pigeons (Pigeons and People, 1967). And this a bona fide novel about ginseng, the Korean aphrodisiac. Yet much like Binder’s other work, sex and gender take arms by way of Ladies Only, a secret organisation whose vision and reality is to eliminate men; the blood of the novel is a deeply scathing satirical swipe at international politics, War weapons, tycoonery, the cult of the occult, human behaviour, and of course, misogyny. Not reprinted, and really rather uncommon.