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SEARLE**, RONALD: : RONALD SEARLE's Big Fat Cat Book

LONDON.MACMILLAN,1982.

ISBN 0333345630.

UK,Qrto wraps,illustrated 1st thus. NFINE. No owner inscrptn.Qrto wraps,no dw/dj,as issued, 96pp [unpaginated].Fore-edges slightly aged. Full-page,full b/w+colour illustrations by Searle. A collection of Searle's cat cartoons,and caricatures.Some of these cartoons,drawings were originally published as covers on the New Yorker magazine.Others in this anthology have been previously published in The Square Egg,More Cats,Searle's Zoodiac and the monograph Ronald Searle. Want more Ronald SEARLE titles? Please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,BIOGRAPHY and CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogues for other and similar titles. Ronald William Fordham Searle (b. March 3,1920 - d. Dec 30,2011.) He was an English artist and satirical cartoonist,comics artist,sculptor, medal designer and illustrator.He is best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the 'Molesworth' series.Works as Ronald Searle. Born in Cambridge.Studied at Cambridge School of Art (1936-39).Served in the Army during WW2 and was interned in Japanese PoW camps in Siam and Malaysia for three and a half years.On his release,he settled in London and began working as a humorous illustrator and carciaturist for books and magazines,including 'Punch' and 'Lilliput'.In 1959,at the invitation of the United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees, he visited camps in Austria,Italy and Greece,and published a book illustrating his impressions. The followingyear he settled in France,where he lived until his death.Searle has illustrated over 60 books.'Hurrah for St. Trinian's!' (1948) was among the first of many giving a mock- horrific view of private schools and their denizens; in these and many of his other books, the predominant mood of effervescent humour is offset by sinister or macabre overtones. He early developed a fanciful and strikingly individual graphic manner,subjecting the human form to grotesque distortions (bristling brows, hunched shoulders,matchstick legs and stiletto feet) and by the mid 1950s had become virtually a household name in Britain.He succeeds both at character-invention (favouring a number of well-defined types) and at caricature.He is also a painter in watercolour and gouache,etcher and lithographer and has worked on several films including Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,Qrto wraps,illustrated 1st edn thus.
Not SIGNED.

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