BRADDON (R). SEARLE (R), illus.: The Naked Island. With Drawings made in Changi Prison Camp by Ronald Searle. [Second Impression]. IN THE DUST-WRAPPER , Werner Laurie, [1952]

8vo., Second Impression, with a tinted frontispiece and 7 fine tinted plates by Searle, fore-edges lightly browned, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt entirely legible) else a very good, clean copy in the d/w, the latter lightly age-browned at backstrip, chafed with minor loss at head and tail, and (predominantly white) rear panel. The particularly striking d/w carries a dramatic illustration by Searle not repeated in the book. All early printings are scarce in the d/w. Enser, p.409. (Book ref. 19508)  £60.00

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