Hugh hickling (25 resultados)

Condición: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and has mild toning. Toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, light toning and creasing.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Softcover in Very Good condition. Clean pages. Good binding. Minimal wear to the exterior. Ships fast and guaranteed well protected with domestic tracking.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Good -. Jacket scuffed and tanned with edgewear. Boards have light tanning along edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. First Edition. Good+ with no dust jacket; Exlibrary with markings. Previous owner's name. Covers are spotted and soiling. Reading copy only. ; Ex-Lib; 256 pages.

Condición: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st edition (Malaysian). A very nice bright copy, almost as-new.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. First American edition. Book is in Very Good condition with slight wear to corners and edges; minor browning on edges.Dustjacket is in Very Good condition with rubs and fading; small tears and wear to edges. $3.50 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket. We have placed dustjacket in a brodart protective cover and it looks much better than described. Otherwise a tight, sound and unmarked copy. No Signature.…

Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Dust jacket has some tears, in mylar; Very Good condition. Book in Near Fine condition.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. 1950 First Edition. Size 16mo, 384 pages. Black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, with dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends a little rubbed, slight crease in cloth on spine from being read, gift inscription on front end-paper else contents clean. Dust jacket condition good, corners and spine ends rubbed chipped and crease, 1.5cm missing from base of spine, a few small creases, price clipped. Author's first novel.…

Condición: Very Good. Unused, Slight shelfwear to cover, content like new.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Hickling wrote this novel in an attempt to find out what motivates us to cruelty. His main subject here is a fictionalised Japanese officer responsible for atrocities during war time Borneo. The story follows a group of survivors of the Japanese invasion through the jungles of Borneo and how they coped both before and after coming up against a Japanese platoon. Crease on front cover, otherwise very good. 304 pages.…

Condición: As New.

Hardback. Condición: Good. No dustwrapper, blue cloth. Binding sound but some marks to cover. Good to very good overall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Bought at Kuching airport on25th November 1954 according to an inscription in blue ink in the front cover. Dust jacket intact with bright front panel bur has damage to edges and top and bottom of the spine. Cover boards and pages clean and crisp.…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. VG+, Shelfwear, bumping, browning/G, Edgewear, chips, tears, insect damage to rear flap hinge causing large perforation, browning. 'Novel of the landing craft of the Royal Navy'. Jacket by Biro. Photos on request. …

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Second Impression. Brick red cloth stamped in yellow on spine. Tight and tidy, light toning in endpapers and small tape marks where a small gift cert was held. Dust jacket is unclipped, corner tears, rubbing to bottom edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Nr Very Good. 1st Edition. Owner's name. Dustwrapper has a few small closed tears and is now protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive plastic.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. GD+ original cloth, remains of library sticker on ffep, otherwise clean throughout.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, spine slightly faded, some slight spotting to page fore edges, some slight yellowing and time staining to back jacket, inside flaps slightly creased, not price clipped (37s 6d) crossed out in biro, old price in biro to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 374pp. A relentless but sympathetic portrayal of the mindset of a Japanese officer during the brutal Japanese occupation of Borneo during WWII. By Reginald Hugh Hickling (1920-2007), known as Hugh Hickling, a British lawyer, civil servant, law academic, colonial administrator in south east Asia, and author of the controversial Internal Security Act of colonial Malaysia. Quite a scarce book. Jacket by Colin Andrews (ilustrador).…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. PRICE NOT CLIPPED. Dj chipped & worn at extremities. Author's First Book. Scan available on request.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. PUBLISHER: ALVIN REDMAN LIMITED * YEAR: 1950 * ISBN/SBN: UNKNOWN * No OF PAGES: 384 * CONDITION: USED - ACCEPTABLE * OTHER: THERE IS SOME RUBBING TO THE EDGES AND CORNERS OF THE DUST WRAPPER, WITH SOME LIGHT SCUFFING TO THE FRONT. THE PAGES ARE ALL REASONABLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. THE FFEP HAS BEEN REMOVED. THERE IS A PERSONAL DEDICATION PENNED TO THE INSIDE FRONT COVER DATED 1953. THE BINDING IS FIRM, WITH THE PINE A LITTLE COCKED. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A HARD TO FIND COPY.…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condición: Very Good ++. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good ++. 1st Edition. VG++/VG++. 1st Edition. Symbolic political fantasy. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Striking jacket art. BOOK: Strip of abrasion on front pastedown, and scattered foxing to endpapers. JACKET: Pri ce-clipped. Edgewear, creasing and mild abrasion, fraying to spine head/heel, three tears, with one internal tape stain to top front panel. Full condition report/photo on request.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. (6) 206 pages. Minor wear. Good. Fiction ["a rousing story of a Bornean patriot in the adventurous days of James Brooke"].["Hugh Hickling was a British lawyer, civil servant, law academic, and author, and author of the controversial Internal Security Act of colonial Malaysia. Hickling was transferred to Malaya as its first parliamentary draftsman, and in that capacity he helped to prepare the Malayan (now Malaysian) constitution for that country's independence from Britain in 1957. Subsequently, as Commissioner of Law Revision he drafted the Internal Security Act of 1960, based on the Emergency Ordinance 1948 which had been enacted to provide the British colonial authorities with powers to tackle a communist insurgency.."].…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hickling, Hugh. The English flotilla. First edition. London: Macdonald & Co., 1954. Hardback, VG, in price-clipped dustjacket held in transparent protective sleeve. Red cloth with acouple of light blotches; gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong, slightly cocked forward. 256pp. Light foxing to edges of the page block, contents clean and bright. Reginald Hugh Hickling, CMG, QC (2 August 1920 11 February 2007), known as Hugh Hickling, was a British lawyer, civil servant, law academic, and author, and author of the controversial Internal Security Act of colonial Malaysia. Between 1941 and 1946 Hickling served as an ordinary seaman in World War II with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on board HMS La Malouine, a 29-metre French corvette taken over by the British. The ship was part of Convoy PQ 17, carrying matériel from Britain and the US to the USSR. PQ 17 sailed in JuneJuly 1942 and suffered the heaviest losses of any Russia-bound convoy, with 25 vessels out of 36 lost to enemy action. On D-Day, he was a sub-lieutenant commanding an Mk IV Landing Craft Tank 1013 with LCT 1018 of the 43rd LCT flotilla, which carried several hundred tons of ammunition to Sword Beach, Normandy. This experience formed the basis of this novel. SCARCE. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

hardcover. Condición: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. First Novel. Sm. 8vo, pp. 384. Black cloth, gilt. A near fine copy save for the corner of the ffe clipped, in a near fine example of the dustwrapper that appears to be trimmed about 3/16". A curious work of intrigue & espionage - a Co up d'etas in England, the overthrowing of the government, a trial for seditious libel. " This is a fantasy on a grand scale, a daring and intellectual work of symbolism grimly caricaturing the forces that work for and against freedom." And through o u t it all, Sergeant Spigot, the incredible Chief of Police and of course, Kemmel Ross, the furious evangelist himself, who strides through the story like the very spirit of freedom.…