Search Results: Authors starting with H from GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS (PBFA)

A Signed Limited Edition; 8vo, Publisher's crimson buckram, wood engraving frontispiece by William Roberts, with an Introduction by Richard Aldington, top edge gilt, gilt lettering, others uncut, pp. 36, privately printed, 1930.
This is number 492 of 500 copies signed by the Author, and further inscribed to the recipient of the book Arthur Dawson, with a long quotation from the work on front free endpaper. The inscription reads:
"To Arthur Dawson.
Yours sincerely
James Hanley
Remember young Dollan mounting that old woman. Looked like a bloody witch. I still remember her nearly bald head.
Well!
Any you chucked young Dollan off, and got into bed with her yourself.
Page 29."
A very good example.
The German Prisoner is the terrible story of two soldiers and their sadistic treatment of a young German prisoner in a shell-hole of No Man's Land during the First World War.
Richard Aldington (1892-1962), a committed pacifist by 1930, sponsored the private publication of The German Prisoner, and wrote an… Read More

A Limited Edition. 1 of 750 copies, numbered and signed by the Author. 8vo., red and gold decorated boards, the spine and upper board lettered in gilt, decorated endpapers, map, housed in the Publisher's slipcase, pp. 454. Published by Hutchinson (UK), 2009.
A fine copy in like slipcase.
The Second Volume in Robert's Harris superb Cicero Trilogy.
Please Contact Us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.