Basil Iske (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 205 pp. Ex Lib. Usual stamps, Marks & labels, Else good+.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition. Flat signed by author Elizabeth Hickey ( Basil Iske is a pseudonym for Elizabeth Hickey) dated February 1981 on the title page and also signed by Hugh Nugent dated 1981 below author's signature. Hardcover in full brown cloth with DJ. Condition as new, very tight and clean book. DJ near fine but with small closed tears at corners. 8vo, 205 pages. DJ not clipped, price 7 pounds net on rear panel of DJ. No markings of any kind, no names, underlinings or highlights, no bent pages. Not a reminder. Uncommon book especially signed by both. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

8vo., First Edition, with pedigree endpapers; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE EMINENT NAVAL HISTORIAN J H OWEN. THE HALF-TITLE BEARS THE FOLLOWING SIGNED INSCRIPTION IN HIS NEAT SCHOLARLY HAND: 'GIVEN TO ME BY THE AUTHOR ELIZABETH HICKEY AT SKEYNE CASTLE, CO. MEATH. 8TH SEPT 1988'. With the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. Written by Elizabeth Hickey under the pseudonym Basil Iske and published (in a very small print run) in 1978, this is the author's first full-length historical study. It records the life of William Nugent and makes an informed case for his possible authorship of the play and sonnets of Shakespeare.