Modern Types by Geoffrey Gorer and
Ronald Searle. First edition. First impression in VG condition. All pages clear, no markings. There's very light foxing to title page. Binding firm, dust jacket in removable protective sleeve. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions get in touch.
About Modern Types
Pen-portraits by Geoffrey Gorer of contemporary characters, purportedly real, but in fact satirically fictional. Illustrated with cartoon caricatures by Ronald Searle.
Artist Bio
Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge in 1920 and was also educated there at the Cambridge School of Art. On the outbreak of the Second World War he left his studies to serve in the Royal Engineers and in 1942 was captured by the Japanese at Singapore, then held by them for three and a half years. He is a hugely successful graphic artist and pictorial satirist. As well as his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books and his invention of St Trinians, his work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions across the world and appears in several major American and European collections. He moved to Paris in 1961 and then, in 1975, to a remote village in Haute-Provence. He died on December 30th, 2011.
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