Evacuee (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Roy Williams and Laurence Bradbury (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, (SOMEWHAT ILLEGIBLY), IN BLUE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To dear Margaret, all my love, Sept 88. Happy Birthday Ben Wicks xxx'. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners bruised, price clipped, no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 228pp, illustrated. Anglo Canadian writer, humanitarian and cartoonist Ben Wicks (1926-2000), was himself a child evacuee during the War, when thousands and thousands of children were evacuated from London and big cities to a safer billet in the countryside. As was actor Michael Caine, who wrote the Introduction. Signed by Author(s).

2h. 79 p. Primera edición. 14x11 cm. Encuadernación rústica editorial.