Musrum by Eric Thacker and Anthony Earnshaw

This is a second-hand copy of the book.

Condition: This is a used book in good condition.

Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Year: 1968
ISBN: 22461472X
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
Condition: Used (Good)

"In brief, a BURIED illustrated fable from an English surrealist-anarchist (Bradshaw) and his mate (Thacker). Imagine a delirious hybrid of Calvino, Spike Milligan and Theroux’s fable books. Replete with sumptuous prose describing a fictitious European nation and its warfare, leaders, enemies. Exquisite illustrations of the smile-making and oh-so-hilarious variety."

"Musrum is an extraordinary piece of late-60s mythography with a small cult following - it starts as a semi-Biblical and highly lysergic creation myth centered around its eponymous hero, Musrum, and proceeds into an epic conflict against his ruthless adversary, the Weedking. It was produced via an exchange of letters between the author Thacker, a Methodist minister from a town outside Rotherham, and the illustrator Earnshaw, a teacher at Bradford College of Art (and an atheist)."