Ronald Searle; C. Day Lewis — Souls in Torment

London, Perpetua, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of illustrations of "souls in torment" from English artist Ronald Searle. First edition. A collection of one hundred drawings from Ronald Searle, 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. With a preface by Cecil Day-Lewis, an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom In the original grey cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light shelf wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. A small crease to the rear fly leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Ronald Searle. Near Fine/Very Good.