Eric Hiscock — Eric Hiscock

London, Arlington Books, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this powerful WWI memoir of an underage solider in the Royal Fusiliers. Signed by the author to reputable publisher and founder of Virago Press, Carmen Callil, who he writes to here as his "good friend". The first edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Eric Hiscock was fourteen when the Great War broke out, and just a year later he was a fully fledged soldier in the Royal Fusiliers. This autobiography is incredibly moving with refreshing humour despite being a deeply personal and often disturbing story.From the library of Carmen Callil, an Australian publisher who founded Virago Press in 1973, to "publish books which celebrated women and women's lives, and which would, by so doing, spread the message of women's liberation to the whole population". Virago publish works by new and neglected female authors, publishing the works by authors such as Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Carter, all with a distinctive green spine synonymous with Virago. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with only a hint of bumping to the extremities. Carmen Callil's bookplate to the front pastedown. Dust wrapper is excellent, with handling marks to the spine and minor bumping to the wrap's edges. With sunning to the top edge only visible to the inside of the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned, but clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.