The English Inside Out. An up to date report on morals and manners in England.

First edition. 8vo. 264pp. Brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; top edge dyed blue. B/w line illustrations, table of contents. Jacket design by the Author (priced 25s net to front flap).

Presentation copy with signed inscription from Binder on front free endpaper in the year of publication. Moderate foxing to endpapers, fore-edge and dustwrapper, sunning to edge-worn spine, else Near Fine. Rare, especially inscribed.

What makes the English so English? An early 1960's study, by turns serious and amusing, exploring the ordinary Englishman's attitude to his home, his job, his sports, his humour, his clothes, his Queen, his gods, his sex life and his pets. A prolific illustrator and author, Binder was a life-long socialist, whose political beliefs were informed by her formative experiences in the East End. As a co-presenter of the BBC's Clothes-Line (1937), the first programme on the history of fashion, Binder may have been the first heavily pregnant woman to appear on television.