The Day They Took The Children: Illustrated Personal Memories Of Britain's 3,500,000 Evacuees (SCARCE BRITISH HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR, BEN WICKS)
by Wicks, Ben
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0747504938
- ISBN 13
- 9780747504931
- Seller
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Margate, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury, 1989. VG+/VG+. British First Edition, First Printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED TWICE BY AUTHOR, BEN WICKS. FIRSTLY, A PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, BEN WICKS. Signing reads on front endpaper, 'For/-----/a new/friend and/keeper of/the brief-case/Ben/Wicks/Sept-89'. And secondly on half-title page, signing reads, 'Ben/Wicks'. Profusely illustrated with some 200 photographs. A collection of memories of evacuation, written in the evacueees' own words - funny, sad, and always moving. Some light bruising to head and tail of spine; else a very good plus copy, in a very good plus d/w. of a SCARCE British first edition, first printing SIGNED TWICE BY THE AUTHOR BEN WICKS. . Signed by Author, Ben Wicks. British First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20425
- Title
- The Day They Took The Children: Illustrated Personal Memories Of Britain's 3,500,000 Evacuees (SCARCE BRITISH HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR, BEN WICKS)
- Author
- Wicks, Ben
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- British First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0747504938
- ISBN 13
- 9780747504931
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Military. Military History.History. Avacuees. Children Evacuees. WW2. World War Two. War. Warfare.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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Greystone Books
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Margate
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- Tail
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