The Female Approach - SIGNED and Inscribed by the Author

First edition, first impression. Introduction by Malcolm Muggeridge. Small quarto, pp 145. Bound in red paper covered hard bards and with the original publisher's un-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED and Inscribed to the free endpaper: "Jean Effel, with love and best wishes from Kaye and Ronald - Christmas 1954" and below the author has signed his name in full. The book is in Very Good Plus condition, some rubbing to the bottom edge. The jacket is Very Good with some browning to the spine area and a mark where a label or tape was removed from the bottom of the spine. Jean Effel was the pseudonym of Francois Lejeune (1908-1982), French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist. Searle, Lejeune and Andre Francois were all close friends as well as influential and highly regarded cartoonists. Excellent association copy. Searle had published a book in 1949 with the same title in the UK. This volume, published in the US by Knopf includes illustrations from several books Searle had previously published in the U.K. The four page introduction by Malcolm Muggeridge, editor of Punch, was written for this edition.…