BOXER, Joe. A Brief History of Shorts: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Your Underwear

(San Francisco, CA): Chronicle Books, 1995. First edition. Softcover. 23 by 20.7cm. 92 pages. Profusely illustrated in colour, including photographs and illustrations, with a novel mix-and-match flip section. Original illustrated wrappers. Small quarto. A wonderfully eccentric and handsomely produced history of boxer shorts, combining fashion history, humour, advertising imagery and trivia; an early book-length celebration of the Joe Boxer phenomenon. A good copy in illustrated wrappers with integral flaps.