Fred Unwin (5 results)

Pictorial Cover-paperback. Condition: Book is Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Paperback So No Dustcover. Fourth Impression. 56 pages. Book has wear to spine-ends, and corners, slight wear to edges, light creases, slight darkening to covers, paper covers with light impressing. Page-edges are slightly yellowed. B/w illustrations. Book looks its age. Text is clean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Offered is a signed first edition, first printing, of "Dew On My Feet," a novel written by F. [Fred] T. Unwin and published in 1976 by Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd. out of Ilfracombe, Devon, England. A hardcover lacking the dust jacket, measuring 5-1/2" by 8-5/8" and containing 150 pages. A brief synopsis is provided on the second inside free page: "Jack Freestone, more commonly known as Pimbo, joins the staff of Fulbourn Hospital to take up the challenge of psychiatric nursing - and a challenge it turns out to be. With his usual aptitude for identifying with people he appears to have found his niche, and when his childhood sweetheart joins him as a cadet nurse his future seems settled. This story, which takes the lid off psychiatric nursing in no uncertain manner, paints a grim picture of life as it must have been in the old asylums yet at the same shows the new understanding which is now using modern methods and today's wonder drugs." Chapters include The sick bay; The alcoholics; Training school; The drug addicts; The geriatrics; Flesh on bones. Signed by the author to the first inside free page ("Best wishes Fred Unwin"). Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK BIRO, ON FFEP 'Best wishes Fred Unwin'. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, small loss to top of spine, bottom of spine repaired with old tape, corners rubbed with small loss, spine slightly sunned. Not price clipped (£2.95), small previous owner's name to bottom ffep, page 167 stuck back in with tape, but apart from that internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 193pp. The story of a small boy, set in the Barnwell district of Cambridge during WWI, his experiences as an orphan and his fight against tuberculosis. The author Fred Unwin (1915-2014), has said that his ideas for his books and poetry came from years of dealing with the public as a brush salesman, milkman and a psychiatric nurse, also, during World War II he was a 'desert rat' with the Eighth Army. Jacket by J. B. Simon (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. THIRD IMPRESSION. SOFTBACK 1936. 3rd impression. 55 pages. Lots of photos. Minor water damage in the top margins. Spine is intact. Clean & tight. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H512BX. How to Swim by Fred A. Unwin.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK BIRO, ON FFEP 'Best wishes Fred Unwin'. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss. Not price clipped but price scribbled out in biro, small previous owner's name to bottom ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 149pp. The story of Jack Freestone, carried on from Fred's previous book 'Pimbo'. Jack has become a psychiatric nurse at Fulbourn Hospital, and the author paints a grim picture of what life was like in the old asylums. The author Fred Unwin (1915-2014), has said that his ideas for his books and poetry came from years of dealing with the public as a brush salesman, milkman and a psychiatric nurse, also, during World War II he was a 'desert rat' with the Eighth Army. Very scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).…