Forty Drawings
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. First Edition. First impression. Slim quarto (28.5cm). Printed paper-covered boards; [2],40pp. Just mild external dusting to boards; typical foxing to endpapers, but plates remain fresh and clean; easily Very Good and better than usually seen.
The illustrator and caricaturist's first book, reproducing drawings, including many portraits of his Japanese captors, made while a prisoner of war on Singapore. Introductory biographical essay by the poet and editor Frank Kendon, followed by twenty leaves of halftone reproductions of Searle's work.
Price: $250.00