Ronald Searle Illustrations (46 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing This Edition. With line drawings thorough out by Ronald Searle. Bound in blue boards with information to spine in white. 191 pages including notes. Not price clipped. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. Dust Jacket the same, AS NEW. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed. …

Hard Cover -. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st U. S. Edition / 1st Printing. Good in good- dust jacket (several small tears on lower spine). Wonderful drawing of snails. 1st American edition / 1st printing. Hard cover. 71pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. b/w Illustrations (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good - Fine. Reprint. A reprint from the early 2000s of a collection of Searle's satiric cartoons on the world of book collecting. Minimal wear. A very good or better copy. An oversize book that may require additional postage. Ronald Searle (illustrations) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition. Tall hardcover, 93 pp., full-color illustrations throughout, unclipped illustrated jacket. 1st US Edition, 1st Printing. SIGNED by the author on the top edge of the title page to previous owner with inscription: "With beastly best wishes!" Forty poems. Excellent condition. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. 1st edition. ,Square 4to,Corners & spine ends sl. bumped; else vg+ in very good dj, The dust jacket has not been price-clipped. ISBN 0713913363. colour illustrations (illustrator).

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Cet essai publié par les éditions Stock en 1970 (1ère édition française) est écrit conjointement par Laurence J. Peter et Raymond Hull, traduit par France-Marie Watkins et illustré par Ronald Searle. "Le Principe de Peter", également appelé "syndrome de la promotion Focus", est une loi empirique relative aux organisations hiérarchiques. Selon ce principe, «dans une hiérarchie, tout employé a tendance à s'élever à son niveau d'incompétence» avec le corollaire qu'«Avec le temps, tout poste sera occupé par un employé incapable d'en assumer la responsabilité.» L'ouvrage de Peter et Hull est rédigé sur un ton satirique mais le principe qu'il expose a fait l'objet d'études universitaires étudiant sa validité par la modélisation ou par la confrontation à des cas réels, certaines concluant à sa validité complète ou partielle. Le principe de Peter propose de décrire les évolutions de carrière dans les hiérarchies par des principes de base simples, puis étudie les corollaires qu'impliquent ces postulats.…

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First American Obl. 8vo, cloth. Unpaginated. 21 illustrations (20 in color). A real charmer. Several of the illustrations were also executed as color lithographs. 082890071X Very good in a dj with soft edge creases.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. A guide to survival in the 20th century for felow pupils, their doting maters, pompous paters and any other who are interested. Black binding with gilt title, authors, small illustrations and publisher on spine. 104pp. Content clean, bright and sound. Illustrations By Ronald Searle (illustrator). …

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First US Penguin Edition, 1st Printing. First US Penguin edition, first printing, 1961 #1659. Export issue with 95c price on front cover, small stamp "Printed in England" on bottom of rear cover. From the collection of Ian Ballantine, who was the American representative of Penguin Books prior to his founding of Ballantine Books in 1952. Each book from the Ballantine collection comes with a loose card indicating it is from the library of Ian and Betty Ballantine. Book is near fine, touch of wear at bottom edge of spine. Scarce export issue.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Color, B/w Illustrations (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing hardback in price clipped dustjacket. Book in VG+ condition, with small neat gift inscription on front endpaper. Jacket in nice condition with age toning to spine. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. I am happy to supply scans.…

First edition. Hardcover. Edges and prelims foxed, with some foxing through the text, bookseller's lable on front fixed endpaper, ownership signature on front free endpaper, otherwise good in fair dustjacket with a few closed tears, some wear and spotting and small repairs. B/w illustrations by Ronald Searle.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1956. NEAR FINE+ hardcover book in NEAR FINE- mylar-protected dust-jacket. "A brilliant satire on McCarthyism." Wear at the DJ's tips. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped (8s. 6d. net). First Edition, First Printing.…

Condition: Very Good. 15 pages, including 4 illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: Saturday Books; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners slightly bruised, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 206pp, lavishly illustrated. From 'Rule Britannia' to 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' via 'The Coventry Carol' and 'Jerusalem'! The authors' and the inimitable Ronald Searle's collection of songs every Englishperson should know. Perfect for all aficionadoes of the 'Last Night of the Proms'. Quite a scarce book. Jacket and illustrations by Ronald Searle (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. A Christmas, 1952 and New Year, 1953 card is laid in, signed by one of the publishers, Allen Lane. One of 1600 copies. Quarto in stiff paper wraps. B&W illustrations. Condition: slight toning to wraps with slight nicking to top of spine; else near fine. 45 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Dust Jacket. Book based on the drawings of Ronald Searle and the Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. Character drawings from the film Dick Deadeye or Duty Done by Bill Melendez Productions. Original story by Leo Miller. Additional Lyrics by Robin Miller. Layout Zoe Henderson. Plain bright red binding with white Title, Illustrator etc on spine. Color Illustrated front and back end papers. Content clean, bright and sound. Color illustrations by Searle, Ronald (illustrator).…

First edition. Hardcover. Some offset browning of the endpapers (as usual), top edge slightly foxed, otherwise very good in very good price-clipped dustjacket. B/w illustrations by Ronald Searle.

First Edition. First Edition. (thus) Near fine in pictorial printed wrappers. (Faint damp soiling at head of rear cover) The pick of the Searle cartoons. (G).

[circa 1953 (dated from owner inscription)]. (Card covers) Very good in very good dust jacket. 145pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate, edgewear and chipping to dust jacket and a crack in the binding at p. 50. Based on the work of Charles Dickens. Book about Charles Dickens. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, Michael Cummings, Giles, Horner, Illingworth, Joss, Osbert Lancaster, Low, Ronald Searle & Vicky. (Humor). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Jacket sadly tatty, with edge wear, chipping and loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top quarter of front jacket torn away, small loss to top and bottom of spine, corners rubbed with small loss, spine of largely red jacket slightly faded. Not price clipped (7/6), no inscriptions, some slight offsetting to Ronald Searle's endpapers, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg only copy for its age. 128pp. H. E. Bates (1905-74), had made his name with the bucolic comedy of 'The Darling Buds of May', but this uncharacteristically dark novella is a graphic story of a teenager whose life devolves from an abusive and miserable home situation to a series of senseless robberies and killings with an ex soldier. As social criticism it was not well received and was generally panned by reviewers, probably because after the War readers were looking for distraction from their problems not dark social comment. Quite a scarce book. Jacket and illustrations by Ronald Searle (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First published in 1952, this is a tenth impression of 1959. Edge wear and chpping to top and bottom of jacket, 2" loss to top of spine and top jacket, small loss to bottom spine, corners rubbed with loss, some overall browning and time staining, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable copy for its age. 53pp, illustrated. An account of Winifred Ellis's life in London in the early 50s, illustrated in his inimitable style by Ronald Searle. Jacket and illustrations by Ronald Searle (illustrator).…

First Edition. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 223 pages. Monograph on British artist Ronald Searle. Features an introduction by Henning Bock and an essay by Pierre Dehaye. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, checklist, documentation and a bibliography. A near fine copy with some slight tapping to the corners and in a near fine dust jacket with a tear and some wear to the top of the spine and some other minor wear. Color, B/w Illustrations (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in 1952, this is a seventh impression of 1954, a tribute to the popularity of St. Trinian's. Some slight edge to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed, spine very slightly faded, some overall fading and time staining, some slight yellowing to page block. Price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 128pp, illustrated. Ronald Searle takes us back to the world of the Gothic Public School in 'The Terror of St Trinian's'. In this gloriously anarchic academy for young ladies we witness shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as more maidenly arts. Ronald Searle's (1920-2011), early St. Trinian's cartoons, executed just a few years after his liberation as a prisoner of war on the Burma Siam Death Railway and his subsequent work as a war artist at the Nuremberg Trials. Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis (1891-1969), was a British journalist, author and biographer, known for his humorous newspaper articles. Jacket and illustrations by Ronald Searle (illustrator).…

[1977]. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 211pp. Illustrations by Ronald Searle, decorated endpapers. Edgewear to dust jacket. Illustrations by Ronald Searle. Locale: Paris. (Travel/Adventure, Memoirs).

Original-Pappband, 4°, 223 Seiten. Ohne Schutzumschlag, sonst guter Zustand. Color, B/w Illustrations (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression, published later the same year. Some edge wear, chipping, short closed tears and loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, loss to top and bottom of spine, corners rubbed with loss, some slight overall time staining. Not price clipped but price obscured by sticky label, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy in a poor but still bright red jacket. 104pp, lavishly illustrated throughout by the brilliant Ronald Searle. The trials and tribulations of Nigel Molesworth at St Custards school. Using his own brand of outrageous spelling, it includes his advice on how to cope with 'bulies, snekes, grown-ups and other chizzes'. Enuff said. Jacket and illustrations by Ronald Searle (illustrator).…

[1956], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in good dust jacket. 104pp. Previous owner's label inside, the dust jacket is chipped and price-clipped. Illustrations by Ronald Searle. (Humor).

1954. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 106pp. Black cloth with gilt illustration on cover. Illustrations. The spine is cocked, the covers are worn and bumped at the edges, the lettering on the spine is faded, and there is a previous owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper. "Contanes: Full lowdown on skools, swots, snekes, cads, prigs bulies headmasters criket foopball, dirty roters funks, parents, masters wizard wheezes, weeds aple pie beds and various other chizzes - in fact the LOT". Illustrations by Ronald Searle. (Humor, Humor). …