Craven Digger (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Book has red cloth boards with black titles. 248 pages with internal photographs on coated paper. The dust jacket has not been price clipped 8/6 but has chipping at the top of the spine; a 2" piece missing from the bottom of the spine; a closed tear across the front panel and over all edge wear. Selling quality books for over 35 years.…

FIRST EDITION, 1937. Super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, vii+248pp, illus plates [counted and present], VG (moderate tanning/fading & soiling to spine, moderate fraying and scuffing to spine extrems, minor soiling to boards, moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page extrems, past owners signature in pen on fep, moderate foxing throughout, occasional moderate cracking to gutters).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author.

Condition: Good. viii, pp 248. First world war Gallipoli memoir inscribed by its author - or perhaps its ghost writer - as the title pages describes the work 'As Told to W J Blackledge by Digger Craven.' Blackledge has written on the title page: 'To Jack Wardle, With every good wish, W J Blackledge. January, 1937.' Bound in publisher's black cloth, unevenly faded; a few dog ears to early leaves making this a good copy only of an uncommon book to find signed. Born into poverty in Bolton, Blackledge wrote a number of pseudo-memoirs and war-related fiction during the inter-war period including this account of the involvement of ANZAC forces in the doomed Gallipoli landings. Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item. …