GILPATRIC, Guy. Three Sheets in the Wind. London: John Lane at The Bodley Head. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the charming period dust jacket designed by duo Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean, slight vertical crease along backstrip, the binding tight and a trifle rolled, the textblock slightly spotted with some sporadic foxing to prelims and more sporadically throughout, often fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), spine toned, high-quality repair to verso, a few short nicks to corners and tips, but a very presentable example, and very scarce.
The third volume in US pilot Guy Gilpatric’s Mr. Glencannon series, following the outlandish life and adventures of plucky and incomparable ship engineer, Colin Glencannon, aboard that most disreputable of tramps, the S.S. Inchcliffe Castle. Originally published in the Saturday Evening Times, this volumes collects nine eventful yarns on voyages from Gibraltar to China, common tropes get-rich-quick and nothing-could-go-wrong. A TV series followed in 1959, though never repeated. Of at least equal interest should be in the dust jacket design. Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers were Northern artists who, together, moved to London to pursue careers as poster artists. They often collaborated, executing remarkable commissions for BP, Shell, the BBC, the Ministry of Information, and notably Transport for London. As one can see, both were strongly influenced by Edward McKnight Kauffer. This example is a very rare foray into the medium.
GILPATRIC, Guy. Three Sheets in the Wind. London: John Lane at The Bodley Head. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the charming period dust jacket designed by duo Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean, slight vertical crease along backstrip, the binding tight and a trifle rolled, the textblock slightly spotted with some sporadic foxing to prelims and more sporadically throughout, often fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), spine toned, high-quality repair to verso, a few short nicks to corners and tips, but a very presentable example, and very scarce.
The third volume in US pilot Guy Gilpatric’s Mr. Glencannon series, following the outlandish life and adventures of plucky and incomparable ship engineer, Colin Glencannon, aboard that most disreputable of tramps, the S.S. Inchcliffe Castle. Originally published in the Saturday Evening Times, this volumes collects nine eventful yarns on voyages from Gibraltar to China, common tropes get-rich-quick and nothing-could-go-wrong. A TV series followed in 1959, though never repeated. Of at least equal interest should be in the dust jacket design. Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers were Northern artists who, together, moved to London to pursue careers as poster artists. They often collaborated, executing remarkable commissions for BP, Shell, the BBC, the Ministry of Information, and notably Transport for London. As one can see, both were strongly influenced by Edward McKnight Kauffer. This example is a very rare foray into the medium.
