Two Types by Jon, First Edition (14 results)

Jon (illustrator). 1st edition in this form, 1960. Pictorial wrappers VG. Pages clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. Pages unnumbered, approx 100.

Illustrated Wrapper. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Undated. c. 1940 Priced at 20lire a copy Unpaginated. About 50 cartoons of life in wartime North Africa and Italy. Significantly toned wit water stain bottom edge first few pages and owners name on front paper cover. See Scans.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The usual war time economy newspaper stock paper. Some minor marks and a little edge wear.

Paper Back. Condition: Good +. Jon (illustrator). 1st Edition. Oblong on Wartime-paper [ browned] p/b.c.1944. Army Soldier humour cartoons illustrated to all pages with text.[ Internal no inscsp, no annotation] external appears to have been folded in half, no loss. Please see our images of the actual paperback offered for sale for Further Details and condition.

Illustrated Wrapper. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Undated. c. 1940 Priced at 10 lira a copy 72p. Life in wartime Italy. Significantly toned and paper cover ruffled as seen. Owners name on front paper cover. See Scans.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unpaginated [52] PP, Text Clean, Book Tight, Condition of Book Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unpaginated [52] PP. Text Clean, Book Tight, Front Cover right hand corner a veru small crease, Condition of Book Fine-/Fine.

No Binding. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Complete. Produced for "fighting men of all ranks and Services" and sold for twenty lire! Astute, sharply observed and suitably irreverent. This copy is tatty and fragile. It is however, comfortable and entertaining. The covers and pages are tanned, worn, creased and torn. However, the contents are sure, relaxed, clear, valid, contented and matey. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Assumed first edition, first printing. Good oblong format paperback with remains of a sticker on the front cover, an inscription and some insect damage. Originally published for sale to serving soldiers in Italy with a price of 20 lire.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Oblong Quarto. Onpaginated [52] PP., Features 47 Humorous Cartoons, William John Jones - The Creator of The Two Characters, SIGNED BY INSCRIBED BY: Bets: Darling, someday soon I'll personally explain all of these for you. I Love You, Please Love Me. Jon. Original Illustrated Wrappers, Back cover left hand corner a slight light crease. Condition of Book Fine. Inscribed by Author.

1st edition pictorial wrappers Very Good octavo (44)pp., illusts., Cartoons of two British Army 'types' in North Africa & Italy. Scarce.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. None stated (illustrator). First edition. A humorous wartime comic about two jaunty heroes, published by the British Army Newspaper. The first edition.Illustrated with a colour illustration to the front, and many monochrome illustrations throughout by John Jones.This humorous wartime comic was created by 'Jon', or John Jones, and follows two British officers. The comics were originally published in the British Army Newspaper Unit, and grew very popular.In the publisher's original paper covers. In the publisher's original paper covers. Externally very smart with the odd slight mark, rusting to the staples, and minor creasing to the extremities. Internally firmly bound with age toning and the odd minor mark. Very Good. book.

Softcover. Condition: g+ to vg. First edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. [52]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. This splendid album features 47 humorous cartoons of two WWII battle-hardened British officers, wearing a mixture of military and non-military clothes. William John Jones - the creator of the two characters - sent some of his cartoons under the pseudonym 'JON' to Hugh Cudlipp, formerly the editor of the "Sunday Pictorial," and, at the time, working as Editor-in-Chief of the British Army Newspaper Unit, producing a series of army newspapers. The cartoons were accepted, and the officers made their first appearance in the "Eighth Army News" in July 1944 under the title 'Page Two Smile'. Then in August 1944 they began appearing as 'The Two Types', a name that became popular and, therefore, stuck. The characters became so popular that Cudlipp arranged for Jones to join the British Army Newspaper Unit in Italy as a full-time cartoonist. The cartoons were extremely liked by the ranks and were syndicated to other publications, including the "Daily Express" from 1944. However, some officers, including on at least one occasion, Montgomery, did not approve of his cartoons and the offending ones were banned. But overall Jones's work was accepted and he was awarded the MBE for his services. Minor and sporadic creasing along edges of wrappers. Previous owner's name in ink, dated July '45, at upper corner of front cover. Pages slightly and evenly age-toned throughout. Wrappers in overall good+, interior in very good condition. About the artist: 'Jon' was the pseudonym of William John Philpin Jones who was born in Wales, in 1913, the son of bookmaker John Jones. Although his parents wanted him to become a doctor, he was always determined to draw and become an artist and his talent came as early as the age of 10, when he won a prize at the National Eisteddfod. And then in 1928 his first published cartoon appeared in the "Radnor Express." Realizing that his son was determined to pursue a career in art, his father arranged for him to attend the Birmingham School of Art, where he remained for three years. From there he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art but his stay there was relatively short-lived as, when the director, objected to him spending too much time on drawing cartoons, he left the College. In 1937 he joined Godbolds advertising agency in London as an artist but the call of Wales was too much for him and he returned home, from where in 1938 he began working as a political cartoonist for the "Cardiff Western Mail." At the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the Coldstream Guards and did his first seven months' training at Pirbright and Caterham. At the end of November 1940 he went to Sandhurst OCTU where he was offered a commission in the Guards. But when the authorities discovered that he did not have the necessary £500 private income to complete the commission he joined the Welch Regiment, serving on the Home Front and in North Africa. In September 1943 he became Assistant Military Landing Officer (AMLO) attached to a Canadian Division at Salerno in Italy and worked on the beach on "D" Day of the Sicily invasion. He was later AMLO at Anzio, where he remained for four months. Evacuated to North Africa with shell shock he began drawing cartoons of the two battle-hardened British officers. the "Two Types.".

np, undated (november 1945), 70pp oblong, some traces of use, otherwise good, 1st edition -.