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1956 The Investigator A Narrative in Dialogue.
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Illustrated throughout, with drawings by popular comic artist, Ronald Searle. This play is a satire on McCarthyism which was first performed on the radio on Canada. The play eventually was broadcast in the U.K where shortly after this edition was published. This is Reuben Ship's bet known work, it lamboons the Army-Mccarthy Hearings and the anticommunist paranoia of the Second red Scare. Ronald Searle was a British artist and satirical cartoon artist. He created the famous St Trinian's School and collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series. Searle received many critical recognition for his work especially in America. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Advertising and Illustration Award in 1959 and 1965, The Reuben Award in 1960 and many more.
Condition
In the original full cloth binding and held in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, generally smart. Age toning to the board edges. Bumping to the head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper is sunned to the spine and to the extremities. Bumping to the head and tail of spine and extremities. Light rubbing to the joints. Small ink or water spot to the front wrap above the author's name. Gift inscription to the recto of front endpaper, 'To Renne from Mary Xmas 1960'. Offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
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