Watchers in the Hills - Original Typescript with the Author's Corrections

W. Robert Foran

Published by Hebron Burghfield Common (near Reading, Berkshire): Original Typescript, 1934, 1934

About this Item

Hebron Burghfield Common (near Reading, Berkshire): Original Typescript, 1934. 578 pages, of which 573 are numbered, rectos only with corrections in the author's hand on almost every page. The pages have been punched and bound with a red ribbon in an oversize thick paper cover. Cover torn but still in very good condition, pages mostly near fine. The last page of the novel was date-stamped "5th December 1934" on the verso (probably by the publisher). The novel of the same title, which is set in Peshawar and surroundings, was first published by Hutchinson in London in 1935. This typescript comes from the archives of German film director and producer Richard Eichberg (1888-1952), best known for his "exotic location" movies "The Tiger of Eschnapur" (1938) and "The Indian Tomb" (1938). Major William Robert Foran (1881-1968) was one of the 6 original European officers of the British East Africa Police. He published no fewer than 15 works of fiction, history, biography, travel and reminiscences. His passion was big game hunting and he was one of the foremost ivory hunters in East Africa in the first decades of the 20th century, at one point taking American president Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit as well as the Duke and Duchess of Kent on hunting safaris.

Seller Inventory # 016354

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Watchers in the Hills - Original Typescript with the Author's Corrections
• Publisher: Hebron Burghfield Common (near Reading, Berkshire): Original Typescript, 1934
• Publication Date: 1934
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 2.5 kilograms
• Signed: Signatur des Verfassers
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sung and Unsung Novels and Stories