Eric Hiscock, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. with 46 colour photographs by Eric C. Hiscock and his wife and 9 charts (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, blue-green cloth boards. Small rubbing on the top and base of the spine. Gift inscription and some ink writing on the front free end paper. Signed by the author, Eric Hiscock on the title page, also signed by his wife "Susan" under the printed dedication to her. Jacket is present in very poor condition, heavily rubbed and worn, extensively repaired with Sellotape strips, also a little paper loss at the top and base of the spine and price clipped. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. signed inscription from the author on the front end paper, 149 pages, some browning to the pages. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1956. First Edition. 275 pages. Signed by the author. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Flat signed by Author and his Wife. Page are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Blue boards with red titles to the spine. Clean Pages that have a bit of age toning. Firm binding. Jacket is price clipped. 1st print. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front end page. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed first edition of this powerful WWI memoir of an underage solider in the Royal Fusiliers. Signed by the author to reputable publisher and founder of Virago Press, Carmen Callil, who he writes to here as his "good friend".The first edition, first impression.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Eric Hiscock was fourteen when the Great War broke out, and just a year later he was a fully fledged soldier in the Royal Fusiliers. This autobiography is incredibly moving with refreshing humour despite being a deeply personal and often disturbing story.From the library of Carmen Callil, an Australian publisher who founded Virago Press in 1973, to"publish books which celebrated women and women's lives, and which would, by so doing, spread the message of women's liberation to the whole population". Virago publish works by new and neglected female authors, publishing the works by authors such as Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Carter, all with a distinctivegreen spine synonymous with Virago. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with only a hint of bumping to the extremities. Carmen Callil's bookplate to the front pastedown. Dust wrapper is excellent, with handling marks to the spine and minor bumping to the wrap's edges. With sunning to the top edge only visible to the inside of the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned, but clean. Near Fine. signed by author. book.