Dick Deadeye

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0151256004 . Color Illustrations; Based on the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There are two small bumps to the bottom edges of the book cover. The endpapers have some light, generalized toning. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some generalized toning to the white portions and some beginning edge wear to the spine ends and corners. Based on " the full-length animated film Dick Deadeye, written and produced by Leo Rost and Robin Miller." "The Ultimate Secret has been stolen. The trouble is, it's so secret that no one knows what it is. Obviously it has to be retrieved, and Dick Deadeye is just the man to do it." "Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch. [6] His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle. He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge. He collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books (Down With Skool! , 1953, and How to be Topp, 1954) , and with Alex Atkinson on travel books. In addition to advertisements and posters, Searle drew the title backgrounds of the Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder film The Happiest Days of Your Life." .