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WEBB**, KAYE - Compiled by: : The St Trinian's Story and the pick of the SEARLE cartoons. [PENGUIN BOOKS No. 1659.]

CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED.

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UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st reprint.[A second printing,but the first reprint edn,4 years after the title's original UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn (London) Perpetua,1959 issue.] VG+. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from front's cartoon illustrated card cover.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, generally sharp-cornered (rear lower corner tip with an accidental diagonal crease), glossy,2/3rds white and 1/3rd taupe-coloured background to front cover with orange+black lettering,orange+white Penguin colophon and orange price, and 3 thumbnail, uniformed schoolgirl cartoons within either a white,orange or taupe background; a flat but angled,leaning orange spine/backstrip with b/w letters and b/w publisher colophon without any reading creases,rear cover with red background,b/w letters and a small cartoon to lower edge.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges inevitably aged/toned but without foxing/spotting or any other blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases o any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st reprint,6-63pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,b/w cartoon vignetted contents list/table with b/w cartoon illustrated frntis to its reverse,a Kaye Webb contribution recalling the history of the schholgirl cartoons and St Trinians,other b/w illustrated contributions from many prominent literary figures of the day,including Cecil Day Lewis and Robert Graves (words for school hymn),plus Siriol Hugh-Jones,Malcolm Arnold & Sidney Gilliat (words+music for St Trinian's School song),Bertold Brecht,D. B. Wyndham-Lewis & Johnny Dankworth (words+ music to Soccer song), Michael Flanders & Donald Swann (words+music for Surly Girls), James Laver (poem - The Fourth Form at St Trinian's),G.W. Stonier and Ronald Searle cartoons.Plus [unpaginated] potted biographies for Searle and Webb,b/w cartoon illustrated title page,b/w photographic still illustrated dedication,and 58pp of Searle's b/w cartoons section after the contributions,plus publisher's advert for another Searle illustrated Penguin book - THE BIG CITY [No. 1856.] as last page in the book. Visually the exterior appearance is almost exceptional for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. a paperback,and even internally,the book is also in an acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation. Kathleen (Kaye) Webb.MBE,(b. 26th January 1914 – d. 16th January 1996),was a British editor and publisher.In 1941 she became assistant editor of the magazine 'Lilliput',She remained there until her marriage in 1948,after which she began working freelance,writing features for the News Chronicle and broadcasting on Woman's Hour,among other commissions. In 1961 she became editor of Puffin Books, remaining until 1979.Whilst there,in 1967 she founded the Puffin Club,which she ran until 1981 (also editing its magazine, Puffin Post.Herthird marriage (1948 - 1967) was to Ronald Searle. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - 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,slim 12mo p/back,1st reprint.
Not SIGNED.

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