FORBES, Robert L. (author). Ronald SEARLE (illustrator). Let’s Have a Bite! New York Overlook Duckworth. 2010. Signed

4to.; original bright blue publisher’s linson boards lettered in metallic blue, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 79; profusely illustrated with full-page plates in colour by Searle; a fine copy in a fine unclipped dustwrapper ($19.95, £12.99).

First edition, first printing, as published in the U.S., with the artist incorrectly referred to as Donald Searle on the rear flap.  Inscribed in ink to the title-page by the author, “With a banquet of beastly wishes, Rob Forbes”.  A riot of rhyming verses alongside Searle’s masterful caricatures. Meet Baker Betty, the Baboon; Natty Nat, the Narwhal and Tardy Tammy the Tiger