Marsh Patrick Leslie Hiscock (3 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 213 pages. Early fiction about an atomic weapon. First American edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, some overall browning and tie staining, some offsetting to endpapers, some slight spotting to page fore edges. Not price clipped (10/6), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 212pp. John Armstrong returns to the laboratory in Cornwall to complete the work for a command testing of a new electromagnetic wave weapon. On his team he finds Snell, whose courage and integrity he admires until he becomes aware that it is his wife Mary that Snell loves. With the disaster of the test, it is Snell's heroism that saves Armstrong's life, for Mary. Journalist and author Leslie Hiscock's (b.1902), debut novel. Jacket by Fly (illustrator).…

2nd imp. hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 212pp., A novel of espionage; authors first book.