B50 THE ST. TRINIAN’S STORY [1959]

[in wiggly Searle letters:] The St Trinian’s Story | The whole ghastly dossier compiled by | Kaye Webb | with contributions by SIRIOL HUGH-JONES | MALCOLM ARNOLD BERTOLT BRECHT | JOHNNY DANKWORTH MICHAEL FLANDERS | SIDNEY GILLIAT ROBERT GRAVES | JAMES LAVER C. DAY LEWIS | G.W. STONIER DONALD SWANN | D.B. WYNDHAM LEWIS | and | Ronald Searle | [publisher’s emblem] | PERPETUA BOOKS

Collation: [1] –[7]8 [8]4, 60 leaves.

p.[1] Searle drawing; p.[2] Searle cartoon; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] edition, publisher’s, distributor’s, copyright and printer’s notices; p.[5] dedication; p.[6] acknowledgements and sketch; p.[7] sketch and Contents; p.[8] reproduction of newspaper clipping; pp.[9] 10–117 [118] text with pp.112, 16, 20, 25, 26, 30, 31, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 52, 56, 59, 61, 63, 69, 71, 73, 77, 79, 85, 88, 93, 102, 105, 107,109, 111, 113, 114] unnumbered; pp.[119]–[120] blank.

24.6 × 18.4 cm. Bulk: 1.2/1.8 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Yellow wove endpapers printed in black; inner sides of free endpapers blank. Bound in black cloth; back blank; front stamped in gold: The St Trinian’s Story and a trumpeting angel; spine stamped in gold, top to bottom: [to front:] Compiled by | [parallel to previous line, to back:] Kaye Webb | [in single column:] THE ST. TRINIAN’S STORY Perpetua

Price: 21s. Number of copies: 16,500. Published 23 November 1959.

Note: Graves’s contribution is ‘School Hymn for St. Trinian’s’ (p.49) with music by Johnny Dankworth facing; the introduction says the poem was ‘originally composed as a flamenco for the Deya Girls’ Choir’.