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BRADDON, Russell (1921 – 95). The Piddingtons. London: Wern...

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BRADDON, Russell (1921 ? 95). The Piddingtons. London: Werner Laurie, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Publisher?s cloth with pictorial jacket, illustrated with sketches by Robert Searle. 8vo. Stanley Collins bookplate. SIGNED on the title page by Lesley and Sidney Piddington, and the author.Braddon wrote extensively about war and his time in a Japanese P.O.W. camp; it was in the dreaded Changi Prison where he met the Piddingtons and where they first presented feats of mind reading.