'I Have No Gun But I Can Spit'

'I Have No Gun, But I can Spit'. An Anthology of satirical and abusive verse selected by Kenneth Baker

-Published by Eyre Methuen, London, 1980

Original artwork. 

View a comprehensive gallery of 'Book Covers' by Searle at the link in the list on the right.

 

Italia

An interesting oddity from Italy with a great self portrait I hadn't seen before. I don't know much more about this publication.

Smörgåsbord

The 1964 book 'Escape from the Amazon!' collects drawings from the 'By Rocking Chair Across . . . ' series that was published in Punch and Holiday magazines. The book contains articles written by Alex Atkinson on Spain, Sweden and France plus a story on 'The Adventures of Mrs. Dyson'. Here are the drawings from the Sweden section. I've traced some of the originals and the rest are scans from the book.

The Inconstant Moon

In 1949 Searle illustrated Noel Langley's 'The Inconstant Moon', again in a classical style.  A retelling of the story of Dante and Beatrice.

Scans from the always excellent illustration resource  FULL TABLE website

A Phoenix Too Frequent

A beautiful edition of Christopher Fry's story illustrated by Searle in 1959 in a more classical style than usual.  He would do complimentary drawings the next year for Robert Grave's 'The Anger of Achilles' 1960

An Evening at the Larches

Searle produced a ghoulish series of illustrations to accompany Harry Hearson and J. C. Trewin's 'An Evening at the Larches' published in 1951.  As a special Halloween treat here are shots of the original artwork.